[kwlug-disc] 8-bay OTA antenna - $50

[Colin Mackay]

> > I get CTV, CTV2, City, Global and TVO.
>Via OTA?

Yes, no streaming.  OTA channels only.  Those in Kitchener may not get CTV2
as it's a London station...

> Kodi will also stream the Canadian channels, but last time I checked it
does so via sucking from the web sites, and the web sites keep changing the
interface / URLs  such that the addon maintainers can't keep up. (Let alone
some now use adobe encryption, giving the addons heartburn. At least as of
the last time I looked.)

There were some streaming addons for a while, most notably Canada on
Demand, which isn't maintained any longer.  I can get Discovery Canada,
Food Network Canada and HGTV Canada via plugins for Kodi or Plex.  Plex
runs as a server and can stream stuff over a web connection, or to clients,
like PleXBMC for Kodi.



On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:45 PM, B.S. <bs27975 at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> I've found just going to the website as good as anything.
>
> When I looked, many months ago, there were multiple addons that seemed
> likely to do CTV, however I don't believe I got any of them to work.
>
> Aside from moving target URL syntax, I think they may have been the site
> that uses adobe encrypted streams, giving everything linux heartburn.
>
> Oh ... and they were the ones dividing up streams to new 'files' every 3
> minutes, increasing the heartburn.
>
> I gave up.
>
> Been fortunate thus far, the only thing I cared about that I otherwise
> missed on the TV itself was one or two news casts, so watching them in a
> browser was sufficient.
>
>
> And ... curiously ... while my ~3GHz P4 with Hyperthreading can't keep up
> with anything beyond 480i, my wee little 1.6GHz dual core Atom with ION
> can. Go figure. Hook up the TV, full screen the browser on it, and watching
> went sufficiently well. (Took me far too long to discover the wee
> underpowered laptop was more capable than I thought. Which I attribute to
> my foresight in holding out for the Nvidia/ION version of the Asus 1201, at
> the time.)
>
> >________________________________
> > From: Raymond Chen <raymondchen625 at gmail.com>
> >To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 8:33 PM
> >Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] 8-bay OTA antenna - $50
> >
> >
> >
> >Which Kodi addon can I watch CTV with? I used Vdubt25 before, but it
> became not reliable lately.
>
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