Today, NBC updated its mobile app for iPad and iPhone. The latest version features AirPlay support which means you can watch NBC TV shows on a large TV if you have an Apple TV connected to it. NBC offers free (ad-supported) content in its iOS app, including:
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
- Late Night With Seth Myers
- About A Boy
- Grimm
- The Blacklist
- The Voice
- …and many more
In order to use the NBC app on iPad or iPhone outside the U.S., a new configuration entry is required in my non-SNI DNS-unblocking config generator’s config.json file:
{ "name": "nbc-ios", "dest_addr": "tve_nbc-vh.akamaihd.net", "modes": [ { "port": 80, "mode": "http" }, { "port": 443, "mode": "https" } ], "catchall": true, "enabled": true }
Since NBC uses a geo-fenced video stream from Akamai, the entire content stream has to be proxied through HAProxy which may – depending on your usage – lead to considerable bandwidth usage on your remote VPS server.
Just so you know _ is an illegal chr in DNS and should not work.