Acestream play in Kodi 18 PVR IPTV Simple Client

[siliconhippy]

I was reading your relevant thread but don't think found an answer...

Can your plugin play Acestream CID links in PVR IPTV Simple Client in Kodi 18?

Or, how can Kodi 18 PVR IPTV Simple Client version do itself, from some plugin (e.g., Plexus)? What will the plugin://links structure be?

Thanks !

[primaeval]

If you are using Kodi 18 then it is probably better to just use direct plugin:// links unless they change a lot.

You can see the links in kodi.log. I don't think you even have to turn debugging on.

You can also make a kodi favourite and look in the favourites.xml file to get the link. Remember to decode the xml back to a plain string first. eg & is just & etc

You could use TV Guide Fullscreen to grab a folder at a time. The results end up in
"userdata\addon_data\script.tvguide.fullscreen\custom_stream_urls_autosave.ini"

You can make an m3u directly with "xmltv Meld".

[daveamato]

I like to play acestream links through AceStream Engine, which proxies the request to HTTP.

http://wiki.acestream.org/wiki/index.php/Engine_HTTP_API

An AceStream CID could then be played using:
http://127.0.0.1:6878/ace/manifest.m3u8?id=dd1e67078381739d14beca697356ab76d49d1a2d

[primaeval]

This addon just plays streams from Kodi addons. If you have an addon that plays the acestream links then you can use PVR Plugin Player to play those links.

If you want to try to make PVR Plugin Player directly play the acestream links you'll have to do some coding.