How to watch Yle Areena movies & series on Kodi
I'm a big fan of Yle Areena , Kodi (formerly XBMC) and the OSMC operating system . I have been enjoying the Yle Areena plugin for Kodi , but recently Yle made some changes to their API service, making the Yle Areena plugin unusable and obsolete . Currently, there are no working plugins for Yle Areena that I know of. As a workaround, I have been using the command-line tool yle-dl to download the movies and episodes to .mkv files, and then playing them with Kodi. A tip for using yle-dl: For some reason, yle-dl tries to create impossible file names by default. So my recommendation is to always specify an output file name when you download something, or the script will probably fail with an error. Use a command such as: yle-dl https://areena.yle.fi/1-123456 -o filename.mkv After a while, the file will start downloading. Be patient, there is often little feedback at first, and it might look like it hanged, but it has always worked in the end. Then you should make the file available to