support for Canadian/North American sites (1 Viewer)

[corporate_gadfly]

TSN fixed with 1.0.2.0. Stay tuned for live TSN support (hopefully).

Enjoy live TSN (Australian open 2013) with 1.0.2.1.
Minor team channel fixes for TSN in 1.0.2.2.

 

[corporate_gadfly]

Added support for RDS.ca in 1.0.2.3.

 

[ronsonol]

Thanks for the new site additions. I am seeing weird behaviour when I have unblock-us dns enabled on my Mediaportal PC.

With unblock-us dns active I cannot watch videos. For example, if I try a show from (history, showcase, hgtv, slice) I get a 30 secs clip warning about my location not being in Canada. If I try to watch these same shows in my Firefox browser on the same PC with unblock-us active - they all work fine.
It is only inside MP/OnlineVideos I cannot watch them.
OnlineVideos.log: OnlineVideosPlayer: Play 'http://static.smdg.ca/videoPlayer/Unavailable.flv'
MediaPortal.log: [OnlineVideos] You are not in a geographic region that has access to this content.

If I disable unblock-us DNS, I can watch the shows inside MediaPortal.

 

[corporate_gadfly]

Thanks for the new site additions. I am seeing weird behaviour when I have unblock-us dns enabled on my Mediaportal PC.

With unblock-us dns active I cannot watch videos. For example, if I try a show from (history, showcase, hgtv, slice) I get a 30 secs clip warning about my location not being in Canada. If I try to watch these same shows in my Firefox browser on the same PC with unblock-us active - they all work fine.
It is only inside MP/OnlineVideos I cannot watch them.
OnlineVideos.log: OnlineVideosPlayer: Play 'http://static.smdg.ca/videoPlayer/Unavailable.flv'
MediaPortal.log: [OnlineVideos] You are not in a geographic region that has access to this content.

If I disable unblock-us DNS, I can watch the shows inside MediaPortal.

I think the best thing to do is to post debug logs with and without unblock-us. Perhaps some of the URLs used within the MediaPortal site utility are different from what the browser uses.

 

[ronsonol]

Thanks. Here are the debug logs.

 

[corporate_gadfly]

Thanks. Here are the debug logs.

The difference is in the following URL:

http://release.theplatform.com/content.select?pid=ijVZHxwlkz_55U64faiaWru9Ztv6KkmD&format=SMIL&mbr=true

When I access that URL from a US IP, I get the Unavailable.flv. When the same URL is accessed from a Canadian IP, proper SMIL is returned.

I am sorry, but you might be out of luck. It will be very disruptive and time-consuming to figure out why this works from the browser (probably because it uses a different URL to get the SMIL). That URL (and hence the site utility) is used in a base class for some of the other site utilities (with differing configuration parameters).

I have had an earlier report about this exact same issue. If I have some time, perhaps I will dig into the differences between the browser and MediaPortal site utility.

 

[ronsonol]

Thanks. It is likely an issue with unblock-us.
They must assume all geo queries, in this case from theplatform.com, should return US as location. They have a setup option to select Netflix location, and changing that to Canada doesn't help.

 

[corporate_gadfly]

Added Action TV.
Added Lifetime.

 

[corporate_gadfly]

Added support for Global News in 1.0.2.4.

 

[corporate_gadfly]

TSN Live Sports streaming fixed in 1.0.2.2647.