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[Q] BBC iplayer and media player apps for fire tv

I know these apps exist in the UK, but the method for getting them in the US no longer works (switching regions in your amazon settings). Would anybody be able to extract these and post the apks somewhere?

BBC Iplayer on Amazon Fire TV
drpie34 said:
I know these apps exist in the UK, but the method for getting them in the US no longer works (switching regions in your amazon settings). Would anybody be able to extract these and post the apks somewhere?
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I have tried sideloading the BBC iplayer APK but it looks like it needs a touch screen to work as i can't select a show to play it. Is there a BBC Iplayer app on nexus player? or an older apk that will work ?
Anyone tested this out?

gilesshaxted said:
I have tried sideloading the BBC iplayer APK but it looks like it needs a touch screen to work as i can't select a show to play it. Is there a BBC Iplayer app on nexus player? or an older apk that will work ?
Anyone tested this out?
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Yeah you can use a bluetooth mouse or some android programs on your phone/tablet to make the iplayer work. But I know there is an iplayer app designed for firetv. That is what I am hoping someone can extract and post.

drpie34 said:
Yeah you can use a bluetooth mouse or some android programs on your phone/tablet to make the iplayer work. But I know there is an iplayer app designed for firetv. That is what I am hoping someone can extract and post.
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I have the official bbc player app on my firetv. ? How do I extract the apk? Let me know and I'll put it up.

Yes can you please extract the iPlayer, STV Player and 5 On Demand apks and post them up here?
This guide details how to do it and transfer back to your computer : http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-transfer-amazon-fire-tv-apps-to-a-fire-tv-stick/#more-3475
Thanks...

I was just going to log in here and post those same instructions. It would great to get these (and is there a 4od app as well?). Thanks!

navigates said:
I have the official bbc player app on my firetv. ? How do I extract the apk? Let me know and I'll put it up.
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I'd love the iplayer
Sent from my SM-G900W8 using XDA Free mobile app

Can someone in the UK please just follow the simple instructions I have posted and extract and post the apks?
It will only take 5 minutes and I think many people would be happy and appreciative of your efforts...

Fire TV UK Apps
Hi
Heres a link to my google drive for the UK apps (Iplayer, Demand5, TV Player and STV Player)
h t t p s://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6g4L9vpdO9gb3BPekF4QjFSMVk&usp=sharing
I cant post them direct here as the file size of some is greater than 20MB
I will keep them up til the end of the year if someone wants to post the to a more permanent link.
I backed them up using ES FIle Explorer so they should work.
Of course you will need a DNS service or VPN to use them outside the UK.
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Had to put spaces at the beginning of the url in the above post as you are not allowed to post links until you have made ten posts.
cheers
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Another option is using XBMC/Kodi
I have added the BBC Iplayer and ITV Player zip files to the folder linked to above.
Cheers

Thanks for posting these uk apks!
I have iPlayer and STVPlayer working perfectly but 5 and TVPlayer are not working on the firestick for me yet and there may be an issue withe firestick compatibility for some reason.
To get these to work i had to do the following:
Sideload the iplayer apk posted above to the firestick
Go to Amazon.com and search and buy that free app, for example iplayer
On the firestick go to my account and resync data
Now launch the app from the Manage all Apps setting
Now as each app loads it will be placed in your Recents list on the firestick Home Screen
The apps will NOT appear in your apps list in the apps tab so the only place to select them is from the Recents list or Manage all Apps.
Thanks again for posting these and i hope someone else also finds this useful for their firestick

No Problem
Getting a Fire TV Stick for christmas so will let you know how I go with these apps on it.
Using getflix.com as my DNS service if that makes a difference. Viewing these UK and US apps in Australia

drpie34 said:
I know these apps exist in the UK, but the method for getting them in the US no longer works (switching regions in your amazon settings). Would anybody be able to extract these and post the apks somewhere?
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This post is dated 3rd December 2014
I changed my region on amazon.com on the 19th December 2014 and it worked, I added BBC's iPlayer and BBC Sports

Thanks. I've now got both the fire tv and the fire stick ( I got the stick first). It looks like this method works with the fire tv but not the fire stick.

Got my Fire TV Stick
The UK apps from my account do not show up on it.
Installed Kodi/XBMC on it and added ITV player and BBC Iplayer that way.

Thanks for this :beer: can you accept my request. I'm over in Spain with a smartdns and look for these apks all the time
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Ok i have shared the folder again so try the link again.
If someone can post the files to a more permanent file sharing place that would be good.
I will keep the link active for the next three days then I wont be opening it again as I dont want to share my google drive folders.

Hey @grahamsmith, can you reupload the files or change the permissions for the folder to allow anyone with the link to download. Currently permission is required to access the files.

Hi,
I added the iplayer, as well as news and sport apps to my fire tv yesterday. Got them pushed from Amazon.com. I'm using adfreetime and can play the iplayer in a browser and also in kodi, but the app won't play anything.
All the content appears, but on clicking it tries to play but then I get a message saying somehting has gone wrong....
Anyone else getting this?
Any ideas?

Did they change something to the BBC iPlayer app?
I bought this one with an UK amazon account, as I can buy it with my german account (You are not eligible to purchase this app due to geographical restrictions, bla, bla).
Synched it to my AFTV, switched back to my "normal" german account and tried to start the app. It starts, shows me the main menu but then a windows pops up saying "You don't own this app. Want details?". If I select details it just says me the same again, that I don't own that app. I then can only exit the app.
Any workarounds?
My Hulu Plus installed the way described above works without problems..
Haven't tried the BBC player in Kodi yet, will try this one. But getting the AFTV app to work would be more wife-friendly

Please reup apk's
Could someone please reup the Itv and 5OD fire TV apk's? I can't seem to get them from Amazon even though I transfered my account to UK
Best regards
Bobi

HBO Nordic - Cannot get it working :(

Hi all.
I have searched throughout the internet, and this one seems impossible to fix for now
I have xposed installed and rootcloak, and can now enter the app and see a list of all movies and tv shows.
However i cannot play anything !!!
I believe the issue is with the WideWine DRM which is NOT supported by Fire TV, and which is neccecery to have in android.
DRM info from playstore will reveal which DRM the Fire TV supports:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.romanhosek.drminfo
The HBO app works fine on my LG G2, and I can see that DRM Info tells me the WideWine is available.
Can anyone tell me if it someow possible to compile this DRM library into fire tv so we can have WideWine DRM protetected content?

mcmanuf said:
Hi all.
I have searched throughout the internet, and this one seems impossible to fix for now
I have xposed installed and rootcloak, and can now enter the app and see a list of all movies and tv shows.
However i cannot play anything !!!
I believe the issue is with the WideWine DRM which is NOT supported by Fire TV, and which is neccecery to have in android.
DRM info from playstore will reveal which DRM the Fire TV supports:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.romanhosek.drminfo
The HBO app works fine on my LG G2, and I can see that DRM Info tells me the WideWine is available.
Can anyone tell me if it someow possible to compile this DRM library into fire tv so we can have WideWine DRM protetected content?
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Someone was asking about Widevine the other day. I just dismissed it, but it might be possible. Get the errors from logcat and we'll see what's going wrong.

That would be amazing.
I have attached two logcats. One which is filtered (small duration) and one which is not.
The package name is obviously com.hbo.android.app, and playback is started around 11:41 (see large logcat file).

HBO Nordic FireTV
Hi did you have any luck succeeding in getting HBO Nordic running on your FireTV box. I would love to have it running too.
I simply do not understand why they are not interested in supporting all our devices.
Looking forward to your update.
Thanks
mcmanuf said:
That would be amazing.
I have attached two logcats. One which is filtered (small duration) and one which is not.
The package name is obviously com.hbo.android.app, and playback is started around 11:41 (see large logcat file).
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smikloz said:
Hi did you have any luck succeeding in getting HBO Nordic running on your FireTV box. I would love to have it running too.
I simply do not understand why they are not interested in supporting all our devices.
Looking forward to your update.
Thanks
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No unfortuneately not.
For now unfortuneately a chromecast is also needed :/

I sideloaded hbo nordic apk, and I get an error about google play services not being supportet. Any ideas?
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its working! Sideloaded an older version of google play services (7.0.86) and also google play store.

henningdalgaard said:
I sideloaded hbo nordic apk, and I get an error about google play services not being supportet. Any ideas?
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its working! Sideloaded an older version of google play services (7.0.86) and also google play store.
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Cool! worked for me too... but had to precisely install the google play services version (7.0.86_1763202-010).
But its a bit slow may be because I am using it outside nordic region with a smart DNS service.

How did you manage it guys? I installed play store and sideloded the HBO Go from google play store, I can install it and run it but can't control it as it expects touch screen. Tried using the remote controller and the gamepad but is crazy, no idea what is being selected, etc. Thanks
Btw. the reason I'm doing this is that I'm located outside the US (in CZ) and the HBO Go app that comes with FireTV connects to hbogo.com and it is showing me error that I'm connected from outside the US.

OK just in case somebody comes across this thread in the future. I have managed to install the Android version of HBO GO after installing the Google Play version that was referred few posts ago. I have used the Android app "Mouse Toggle for Fire TV" to navigate through the interface. At the beginning HBO Go failed to connect when Fire TV was connected through LAN port so I had to connect through WLAN and then HBO Go started to work. The only issue I'm still having is that I can't play some new series like Westworld, Divorce and few others that do not stream at all. Could it be the codec? the resolution of the video? Other movies and series play fine.

I managed to get the latest version of HBO Nordic (3.1.0, I think it is) installed on my Fire TV Stick yesterday:
Installed Google Play Services, latest non-beta version, but NOT the Android TV version
Installed Google Play Store, latest non-beta version, also NOT Android TV version.
Installed a "Force Landscape" mode app, otherwise interface is distorted.
Installed the Mouse app for Fire TV, to use the remote as a cursor.
I could then log in and browse the library. Yay. But all playback fails. Logcat indicates it's something with the Audio that goes wrong, but that's about as much as I can gather...
Android TV versions of the Google apps wouldn't work. I suspect that this is because FireOS was forked from regular Android, and not Android TV.
Anyways, I got this far. Maybe others will have more luck?

[APK request] WatchESPN

Can someone post the most recent version of the Fire WatchESPN app?
Many Thanks!

larskappler said:
Can someone post the most recent version of the Fire WatchESPN app?
Many Thanks!
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here you go

thanks much!

[APK request] Watch TNT and Tennis Channel Everywhere
tekno4ever said:
here you go
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The Fire version of WatchESPN works a lot better than the regular version from google play store.
Could you also provide the Fire version of Watch TNT and Tennis Channel Everywhere apks?
Thanks in Advance,

I don't think there is a firetv version of watch tnt, you can sideload but you'll have a banner on the top of your screen that forces the video lower and cuts off a few inches at bottom of the video

[APK REQUEST] Slingbox

Greetings, Nvidia Shield TV users have been using the Fire TV slingplayer app since its the best TV version of the app so far. However, the Nvidia shield TV was recently upgraded to Nougat and the app no longer works. Is Fire TV on nougat and can someone please PM me the latest version of the apk, thanks. Your efforts will help many!

Steveborough said:
Greetings, Nvidia Shield TV users have been using the Fire TV slingplayer app since its the best TV version of the app so far. However, the Nvidia shield TV was recently upgraded to Nougat and the app no longer works. Is Fire TV on nougat and can someone please PM me the latest version of the apk, thanks. Your efforts will help many!
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FTV(S)'s FireOS 5 is based on Lollipop.
http://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-fire-tv-confirmed-to-receive-fire-os-5-based-on-android-lollipop/
The last version of FTV(S)'s Slink APK is v5.0.503. If it's the same you got then it wont make a difference. Let me know if you still need it.

Y314K said:
FTV(S)'s FireOS 5 is based on Lollipop.
http://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-fire-tv-confirmed-to-receive-fire-os-5-based-on-android-lollipop/
The last version of FTV(S)'s Slink APK is v5.0.503. If it's the same you got then it wont make a difference. Let me know if you still need it.
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Thanks, its the Slingbox player app for people that own the slingbox appliance not the Sling TV streaming app, if that's what you meant please send, thanks!

Did this work?
If so can you PM me the apk as well?
Please and Thanks!

Can you send me the apk as well? Really hoping to get slingplayer to work on my shield tv.

For all that need/asked for them...
Latest version of the App.
Sling_TV_v5.2.595.apk - 16.4 MB - (md5sum: 02EC221CE1810B02E2E48EA2991F855B)
Latest version of the player. A lot of bad reviews.
SlingPlayer_v3.0.9.apk - 12.1 MB - (md5sum: 6BAA8C23C6AD48B9F8907871EF80F5D9)
This is just an older version that was also named differently then the newest version above.
Sling_v5.0.503.apk - 24.0 MB - (md5sum: DE8B55EE2D05BE77E275F07DD69FCA0E)
Enjoy

Y314K said:
For all that need/asked for them...
Latest version of the App.
Latest version of the player. A lot of bad reviews.
This is just an older version that was also named differently then the newest version above.
Enjoy
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Awesome, thanks

Anyone else getting the "guide" grayed out in the slingplayer app? Is there any fix to this? Is it just crappy programming on the part of slingbox?

Y314K said:
For all that need/asked for them...
Latest version of the App.
Sling_TV_v5.2.595.apk - 16.4 MB - (md5sum: 02EC221CE1810B02E2E48EA2991F855B)
Latest version of the player. A lot of bad reviews.
SlingPlayer_v3.0.9.apk - 12.1 MB - (md5sum: 6BAA8C23C6AD48B9F8907871EF80F5D9)
This is just an older version that was also named differently then the newest version above.
Sling_v5.0.503.apk - 24.0 MB - (md5sum: DE8B55EE2D05BE77E275F07DD69FCA0E)
Enjoy
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The above is the Sling TV app not the Slingplayer app for a slingbox
Is it possible for someone to DL the Slingplayer apk please.
https://www.amazon.com/Sling-Media-Slingplayer-for-Fire/dp/B00PJ3MGYG
I have my Fire TV setup for Japan but no Japanese CC added so cant DL the free Slingplayer app.
Thanks

theslydog said:
The above is the Sling TV app not the Slingplayer app for a slingbox
Is it possible for someone to DL the Slingplayer apk please.
https://www.amazon.com/Sling-Media-Slingplayer-for-Fire/dp/B00PJ3MGYG
I have my Fire TV setup for Japan but no Japanese CC added so cant DL the free Slingplayer app.
Thanks
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The second link in that quote is the last version released of the "Slingplayer for Fire TV" v3.0.9. The same reviews. That last update is from Jun 28, 2016 with support for FireOS v5.2.1.0. Exactly the same as your link. Even the ASIN # matches.
Y314K said:
Latest version of the player. A lot of bad reviews.
SlingPlayer_v3.0.9.apk - 12.1 MB - (md5sum: 6BAA8C23C6AD48B9F8907871EF80F5D9)
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Y314K said:
The second link in that quote is the last version released of the "Slingplayer for Fire TV" v3.0.9. The same reviews. That last update is from Jun 28, 2016 with support for FireOS v5.2.1.0. Exactly the same as your link. Even the ASIN # matches.
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Thanks. However, I side loaded it and it keeps directing me to the Japanese Fire TV version before I can OK the install. As I dont have a Japanese CC it exits. I will have to think of another work around.

crameris1 said:
Anyone else getting the "guide" grayed out in the slingplayer app? Is there any fix to this? Is it just crappy programming on the part of slingbox?
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I have the same issue the Guide is grayed out (disabled) within the app, which makes it almost unusable. Anyone else with this issue? And solutions? Thanks!

virtualadam1 said:
I have the same issue the Guide is grayed out (disabled) within the app, which makes it almost unusable. Anyone else with this issue? And solutions? Thanks!
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Figured out that if it doesn't "fully support" certain cable boxes it will wither gray out the Guide and/or PVR options. Personally I'd prefer the option to show the Slingbox overlay guide, rather than trying to leverage the devices native guide, which is too slow and sluggish to be usable.

virtualadam1 said:
Figured out that if it doesn't "fully support" certain cable boxes it will wither gray out the Guide and/or PVR options.
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It's SlingMedia being stupid again. I have two Fire Sticks, a 1st Gen and a 2nd Gen, and a Slingbox 350 with great upload. I used to be able to get all the controls on the 2nd Gen, then Sling "did something" and now like others have stated the only controls I now get are "Quality", "Disconnect" and a couple others but nothing you can use to control the SB with.
But the 1st Gen? Works perfectly, all the controls are there, everything works going to the exact same Slingbox 350. I haven't checked to see if there's a difference between the 1st-Gen and 2nd-Gen's app versions, so maybe that's it. But in any case, SlingMedia has always been kind of ****ty when it comes to support so I don't expect this to ever be fixed.

virtualadam1 : Yhea, I got this problem, as my provider is Videotron in Quebec,Canada. I thing the problem is the country you choose for your slingbox as any of the Canadian provider I try didn't give me access to than ''Guide'' and ''DVR'' option. I have a slingbox 500 connect to a Cisco 8642 box with Videotron but to make all the feature work I need to choose US as a country and 33060 as zip code + Comcast as provider. Now everything work perfectly with FIRE TV only. Any other stick or apps will give me the guide from comcast.

Update: Apparently somehow not being able to see all the remote-control buttons in the Slingbox Player for Fire TV app is an issue with only the 2nd-gen Fire TV Stick; if I run the app (same Amazon account, same SP App version) on a 1st-gen Fire TV Box, a 1st-gen Fire TV stick or the new 4K Fire TV dongle, the buttons all show up.
One other thing to note is that on all the Fire devices that the Slingplayer app works fully on, in "Settings->Display->Scale" you can adjust the picture size for overscan, which is something only the 2nd-Gen Fire Stick, the only one without all the SP buttons, can't adjust (it gives a lame message about "Fix your TV's settings instead", which is useless in places like hotels, or TVs w/o aspect ratio controls or where overscan can't be otherwise be adjusted).

can someone repost valid links pls?

[APK Req] Xfinity Stream from Fire TV

Could anyone provide me the APK for Xfinity Stream from a Fire TV?
Thanks

shark1987 said:
Could anyone provide me the APK for Xfinity Stream from a Fire TV?
Thanks
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There isn't one for firetv... The ones from here will side load and work with mouse toggle or mouse. At the end of the threads there are ones that work. I have been using 5.1.5.014 with a mouse.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...v-mod-android-box-hdmi-output-t3535881/page93

Oh wow, thanks. I really thought after googling the FireTV did already officially support it. It must have been talking about Fire Tablets instead, now that I look again.
I do already have that version side-loaded, but having to use the mouse is a deal breaker for me. I'll keep using the Roku until it comes officially I guess.

shark1987 said:
Oh wow, thanks. I really thought after googling the FireTV did already officially support it. It must have been talking about Fire Tablets instead, now that I look again.
I do already have that version side-loaded, but having to use the mouse is a deal breaker for me. I'll keep using the Roku until it comes officially I guess.
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I use the xfinity stream app on my jetstream android tv. No beta just sideload the app after downloading from website on or android device you use for tv go to playback and change the hdmi self adaptation to totle mode and it works
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And no cable box needed it hides hdmi