Aussie Add-ons: Liberating Australian catch-up TV with Open Source
Channel: LinuxConfAu 2018 - Sydney, Australia
Date: 2018-02-21

Andy Botting, Glenn Guy

http://lca2018.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/96/

All of the major free-to-air Australian TV channels are providing on-demand catch-up TV streams, and some even provide access to live streaming, but access to these services requires using a web browser, mobile app or a supported proprietary smart TV.

In this talk, we present the Aussie Add-ons project (formerly known as XBMC Catch-up TV AU). This project aims to develop add-ons for the excellent Open Source Kodi Media Centre platform to support all the major free-to-air TV channels and others including AFL, NRL and Bigpond Video.

We will look into the history of the project, delve into some of the techniques used to reverse engineer streaming websites and mobile apps and look at some of the challenges we face, including DRM.

This talk was given at Linux.conf.au 2018 (LCA2018) which was held on 22-26 January 2018 in Sydney Australia.

linux.conf.au is a conference about the Linux operating system, and all aspects of the thriving ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software that has grown up around it. Run since 1999, in a different Australian or New Zealand city each year, by a team of local volunteers, LCA invites more than 500 people to learn from the people who shape the future of Open Source. For more information on the conference see https://linux.conf.au/

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