View Full Version : Request: channelsurfing.net plugin or script
seems to be a good working tv internet website, and i was wondering if there was any way to implement this into xbmc.
Gamester17
2007-11-20, 16:52
Moving your post to the python scripts and plugins forum and changed the topic title
jblake1560
2007-12-29, 01:47
www.channelsurfing.net. This would be a great script or plugin so I can watch these channels on my TV and not on my computer.
stickman
2008-01-02, 02:50
Has anyone actually figured out how this works?
It acts as a proxy somehow for the NBA League Pass, tricking it so that the origin ip appears to be an american one (or that's what I think it does).
A working solution at least for some groups of urls (NBA comes to mind) would be great.
Gamester17
2008-01-02, 16:59
If you are a python scripter then you should be able to work around that using a proxy.
It should be possible to 'fool' or 'spoof' from which location in the world you are in using a proxy, checkout http://proxy.org
http://proxy.org/cgi_proxies.shtml
would make a nice re-usable module for any python script to use I would think :rolleyes:
Many XBMC python scripts could probably benifit if such a module was made, any volunteers?
...though I'm not sure if the python-engine in XBMC uses the HTTP proxy set in XBMC via GUI settings?
???
Nuka1195
2008-01-02, 17:55
it should use xbmc proxy.
stickman
2008-01-03, 02:37
No, that's not the issue here.
I'm located in Spain, and if I follow those urls in www.channelsurfing.net I don't need to setup any proxy in my browser to access NBA League Pass for instance.
If I extract the urls and try to open the mms uri directly in wm9 it won't work.
I assume the php script is getting somehow a cookie (or doing something like that) trough the US server ip address and then it's relaying it to me so I can pass it on in the request to the streaming server.
As I said, it's pretty impressive, since it gives access to live sports events without too much hassle for us non americans.