Any ideas on how to get the HD MPD Manifest for foxtel?

[SE14man]

Hey

It used to work with kodi but foxtel plugin no longer works with kodi so wondered if anyone knows how to get HD mpd instead of just medium?

Thanks

[pauli3]

Theres a setting to enable in account, where you change it from low to auto or auto to high or something like that, which will give you the HD mpd.

[SE14man]

Hey Pauli3. I did try that and still no luck. Although they do seem to play in 1080, the manifest only ever shows medium and the highest quality within that manifest is 576 even though I refreshed many times and tried many videos.

The only method which ever enabled me to find the HD MPD was going through Kodi logs using the foxtel go plugin but kodi foxtelgo plugin no longer works either unfortunately..

[pauli3]

Foxtel is known to protect/monitor their content, no idea why since its not that great, but its likely your account got flagged and is set to get the lower quality manifests. One further way which has worked in the past, using a smart-tv device eg. amazon firetv, and mitm/intercept the high manifest from there.

[SE14man]

Hey Pauli

If I were to use an amazon firestick to get the HD MPD, Would this be done via the foxtelgo app? Then would there be a file it creates which I can only access if the device was rooted? If so do you know the location of the file?

Appreciate you getting back

[billybanana]

The medium playlist gets served with Foxtel Go

https://foxteldashvod01.akamaized.net/store2/ON815986/ON815986_mcs.ism/playlist_medium.mpd?.....

The high playlist gets served with Foxtel Now

https://foxteldashvod01.akamaized.net/store2/ON815986/ON815986_mcs.ism/playlist_high.mpd?.....

The full MPD also contains HMAC data, so you can't just change the playlist name from medium to high and expect to keep the authentication. I dunno how the KODI plugin was able to access the HD stream when a Go account does not entitle you to it. I guess this is one thing Foxtel has fixed.

Anyway this is all a moot point. Discussion around pay sites is against the forum rules, so I expect this thread to be locked.