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Yle Areena is a really great free streaming site run by the Finnish goverment funded media house Yleisradio . It has a Netflix-like browser interface. I am using a Home Theater PC (HTPC) called Vero 4K to watch content. It is running the OSMC Linux distro with Kodi as the interface. However, this guide should work on anything running OSMC, for example a Raspberry Pi . Lately, Yle changed their API, making the yle-areena Kodi plugin obsolete. After that I have been using yle-dl by Antti Ajanki to download and watch movies. It's a bit of a hassle to use. Compared to just using the Areena plugin, you have to first download the content on the command line and then find it on Kodi and play it. But it works well enough. Keep in mind, this is all legal according to Finnish law. Yle Areena is a legal streaming site and you can make recordings for your own use. So, here's how to get yle-dl running on OSMC.  Connect to the OSMC device with an SSH terminal program like PuTTY . Updat...

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...