Sopcast (Olympics) on OMX?

Question

Anyone had any luck watching the Olympics on RPi3/Raspbian/OMX?

I found this site with Sopcast and Ace streams

http://livetv.sx/en/eventinfo/433241_olympic_games/

This tutorial

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seems to be the way but I can't get it to work.

I don't get it past the 'start_omxplayer' loop.

Ideas?

A. Dumas · Accepted Answer

Live streams are difficult, even on Youtube :-( General command for Youtube: "omxplayer $(youtube-dl -g

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" but I don't think that will ever work well with live videos; they seem to change the underlying stream url frequently (every x minutes, I guess). So then it stalls and you have to restart. Maybe even worse: it doesn't seem to pick up the right, or maximum, resolution but a very low one instead. Maaaaaybe it could be solved by a 'youtube-dl' update, if someone figures out how to improve it.

Sorry, wish I knew!

Graham. · Answer

Blocked by my ISP  I'm wondering if the "Court order" excuse is a bit disingenuous given Sky/NOWtv are likely to have been the applicants. It seems to be available via other ISPs. --  Graham. %Profound_observation%

Emanuel Berg · Answer

What about      ? If we were to understand what he means (the site is in Spanish) perhaps that would be a first step into getting it to work... --  underground experts united ....  Emacs Gnus Blogomatic .........                     - so far: 64 Blogomatic articles -

Emanuel Berg · Answer

OK, a current Sopcast URL is:     sop:// AceStream ditto:     acestream://746794f5215969b57e76048049ceaaa782be4b44 --  underground experts united ....  Emacs Gnus Blogomatic .........                     - so far: 64 Blogomatic articles -

alister · Answer

& completely pointless as anyone who is prepared top break the law by  downloading illegal content already knows enough to use a proxy & bypass  the restriction  --  The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Emanuel Berg · Answer

Let's focus on the technology issue, shall we :) --  underground experts united ....  Emacs Gnus Blogomatic .........                     - so far: 64 Blogomatic articles -

Emanuel Berg · Answer

Here is what seems to be a straightforward idea. However it is for Ubuntu and specifying the [arch=armhf] in /etc/apt/sources.list only makes it find nothing.

But if there was that software compiled for us, perhaps it'd work, only it might still be too slow without OMX.

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Dr J R Stockton · Answer

Then use a browser or add-on which can translate Spanish, into English or even Swedish. --   Merlyn Web Site <                       > - FAQish topics, acronyms, & links.

Emanuel Berg · Answer

This might refer to this package:     p   python-apsw                 - another Python SQLite 3 wrapper --  underground experts united ....  Emacs Gnus Blogomatic .........                     - so far: 64 Blogomatic articles -

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