[glennguy]

Any secret to getting HLS working?
I'm trying with a hls m3u8 but it keeps failing to play.
I did look in the m3u8 and it is using EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128 so maybe that is why?

Hey Matt,
You just need to set a few listitem properties. Earlier in the thread there was this solution:

@enen92

Code:

listitem = xbmcgui.ListItem()
listitem.setProperty('inputstreamaddon', 'inputstream.adaptive')
listitem.setProperty('inputstream.adaptive.manifest_type', 'hls')

FYI, If your streams require custom header values use:

Code:

headers = 'User-Agent=Some user agent&Cookie=some_cookie'
listitem.setProperty('inputstream.adaptive.stream_headers', headers)

This one tripped me up for quite some time.

but with recent changes the headers for the decryption key download are now specified separately:

Code:

listitem.setProperty('inputstream.adaptive.license_key', stream_url + '|' + headers)

Infact it seems you don't need to include the playlist url, just the pipe followed by the headers.

Put these all together and it works quite well, Kodi 17 and 18.

Also Matt, I've made a bunch more changes to drmhelper. You can now select an item to play and go from having no installation of inputstream.adaptive/widevinecdm/ssd_wv to having all 3 installed and playback starting. Rather than installing from a Kodi repo the inputstream.adaptive zip file downloads from a plain file repo, unzips into the addons folder and JSON-RPC asks Kodi to rescan addons. Trying to make it as foolproof and painless for the user as possible. I don't think though that this addon has much of a chance of making the Kodi repo though because of downloading google's binaries.