Cannot play premium content from France on Zee5

[atallur]

Hello, Thanks a lot for your work! I am in France and have recently subscribed to a Zee5 premium account. In Chrome on my PC, it works perfectly, I am able to view premium content (movies) without any VPN, which is a good surprise.

As I use Kodi on a Raspberry Pi (OSMC), I searched for extensions for Zee5 and installed yours, version 2.1.14. I could make it work, with my login / password, and for the DeviceID used the guestToken copied from Chrome on my PC. It works perfectly for viewing live TV (non premium content, like Zee News, WION, etc.) However, I am not able to view any movie. I also tried the version you have posted in issue #83, with no improvement.

I have enabled the debug log files as advised in issue #73. Log file show that an error 403 is received when trying to get Widevine license for the content. Below is an excerpt

2022-10-29 18:04:12.851 T:8906    ERROR <general>: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 403 for https://spapi.zee5.com/widevine/getLicense:
                                                   {"errorcode":371000005,"errormsg":"Widevine license request failed >> Verified media path cannot be verified","errorid":"141726e3-9b0f-41ab-aa91-d8ea9bf4750b"}
2022-10-29 18:04:12.851 T:8906    ERROR <general>: AddOnLog: inputstream.adaptive: License server returned failure

After this failure to get license, we see that Kodi anyway tries to play the stream without success, and after a few seconds, displays sad face smiley and restarts.

Please find full debug log here: https://paste.kodi.tv/obikelufig.kodi

Is https://spapi.zee5.com/widevine/getLicense supposed to work outside India? May be not, and it would explain the issue.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Anand

[atallur]

Some more details. I have verified with dev tools in Chrome the http requests that happen when playing a movie in the browser. The request of type POST to https://spapi.zee5.com/widevine/getLicense is well present and works. So I guess may be the issue is the movie token which is passed to this query by Kodi plugin. Maybe an issue of country code. I will perform more investigations.

[Vikassm73]

Till date there is no solution for this error "Verified media path cannot be verified" The same may work under Linux platform try in Libreelec or osmc

[atallur]

Thanks for your answer. I am already using OSMC. Looking more closely in log at POST query sent to https://spapi.zee5.com/widevine/getLicense, I wonder if code 403 received from the server could not simply be due to the "user-agent" property passed in query header, which is the following: HEADER_OUT: user-agent: Kodi/19.4 (X11; Linux armv7) Linux/2022.09-1 App_Bitness/32 Version/19.4 Will try to change this and give you feedback.