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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...

I had problems with the Kodi Youtube plugin where it didn't want to play live streams. To fix that error, do the following in Kodi: Open the Kodi Youtube addon From left side options menu, select "Addon settings" Select "MPEG-DASH" subpage Check "Use MPEG-DASH" and press OK. That should be all! But for me, it didn't work at first. Shortly after I set that up, Kodi decided to crash and restart. Luckily after that everything worked. So you might want to try to restart Kodi if it doesn't work at first. You should also have the "Inputstream Adaptive" plugin installed and up to date. You can check this in by: Select Add-ons  Select My addons Select All Scroll down to "InputStream Adaptive" You might want to check it's settings and check for updates. Versions I have at the time of writing: OS: OSMC Kodi 17.6 Youtube plugin 5.5.1 by bromix