Disney channel and the few I have like FX still load a stream fine. But has a video be right back or stream experiencing technical difficulties.
I can still login into the Nat Geo live website with Xfinty credentials and the channel streams fine.
Thought the website stream is the TVE stream that IS the number one thing told to check for TVE troubleshooting steps.
Just got a email about server update now removing these channels… so I guess that is just a placeholder stream Disney is using in place of TVE stream and website is now different?
Disney owned channels are now all DRM. TVE is no longer going to work for these. Same as Comcast did a few years back.
Just saying, the same website i always went to check for TVE stream to work... still works.
So, on the surface, at least Nat Geo appears to be unchanged. (at least their website stream page)
But i had updated the sever before i tested Nat Geo, and now its gone.
Site still says Try Hulu? Ain't Hulu gone now and is all Disney+?
Looks to me Nate Geo site has not been updated yet.
( was using a Linux server for Xfinity TVE, since it has not worked on a Windows 11 based sever in a few years now)
Disney i failed to login to their live stream, as seems those channels were dropped from the Xfinity package my folks have.
O well...kinda suck. Not watch those channels often, but was nice to have.
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You can also still watch other TVE channels that have been dropped by Channels DVR because of DRM, like NBC, PBS, etc. The web browser supports and decrypts the DRM, Channels DVR doesn't.
Not seeing DRM for Nat Geo live stream in browser, download extensions still see video chunks, but file downloaded is only few bytes, as it always has...so...whatever. (They usually give a message saying stream is DRM protected if that is the case.)
Been some time since last had to troubleshoot TVE.
Any website you go to that is either run by the channel itself or your TV provider (Spectrum, YTTV etc) will still work, those websites are behind the paywall and you have the credentials to watch those channels on those websites. What Disney has done is killed the option to get those streams from the Disney websites by logging in using the old method of supplying your TV provider login.
Not quite correct.
Their TVE streams at their network websites still work (in a browser that supports the DRM method), just not in Channels DVR. Like I said, you can stream NBC or PBS at their websites in a browser (that supports the DRM stream).
Exactly what I said, on the provider owned and operated sites you can log in with your PAID FOR credentials. They have cut off the non-DRM stream that Channels took advantage of. They want you inside their paywall. This is not going to change. You can fiddle and play all you want but the folks at DMD (Disney Media Distribution) are pretty smart cookies. PS I was a DMD employee.
Your best bet at this point is an HDMI based solution, for myself I am just going to use YTTV going forward. A lot of the remaining TVE feeds are getting annoying to me with the same three commercials playing over and over for 6 minutes each time a show goes to break. At least on the YTTV feed there is more variety and the option to go to the moment of Zen.
Yea. And they are the same stream, as for me with Nat Geo in the past, both Channels and the website were in perfect sync and had the same issues from time to time. I spent months arguing with Nat Geo support to fix encoding issues /video artifacts with their stream a few years ago.
But i guess the DRM is much more seamless now, or my extensions like IDM, has yet to be updated to detect it as Protected Content.
I like using ADBTu er and YTTV with two onn 4k boxes.
haven't been super impressed with the price so looking at Directv or someting like that for complete local channels plus baseball coming up.
This is not good.
All NBC channels (Golf ch), now all Disney channels (A lot of sports, ESPN, SEC, etc)
and frequent problems with Discovery channels.
I really like CHDR for many reasons, but it is getting to be marginal.
Too bad there is no way for the Devs to increase price by a few dollars per month for everybody
to cover the cost of a DRM license.
I have no idea how many subscribers they have and what that might be, maybe $2/mo for everybody.??
But I'm pretty sure there's more to it than the cost however.
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I am lucky enough that I can get about 90 channels OTA so I will keep using Channels as a DVR for those programs because as much as I like YTTV picture quality and GUI, I am not a fan of their DVR. My family lives in another state and when they get a sports blackout for their area they connect to my Channels server and watch my OTA.
Then we'll just agree to disagree.
I can still access the Disney owned networks using my TV Provider login and stream them.
This is what Channels DVR TVE does.
It's called TVE.
Since they added DRM to those streams, you can only watch it in a browser that supports the DRM.
That's why it no longer works in Channels DVR (that doesn't support DRM).
I am accepting the fact that they closed the gate and this era of TVE is over. Not going to waste time trying to circumvent it or complain to DMD. Same thing coming for ATSC 3.0. It will all be DRM soon and ATSC 1.0 will be turned off and there will be no OTA recording anymore. Paywalls and data mining are the future for broadcasters and streamers.
I have seen the change coming and have already replaced the sources in channels DVR.
If you can just take some time and pick an add-on, all channels will be restored with your valid subscription.
Good luck
Still seems like a mystery to me as to why some Disney channels via TVE in my DVR are showing "Please Try Again Later, this stream is experiencing technical difficulties" Other channels are showing "we'll be right back", and they never come back. You'd think that if they are DRM'ing or shutting these down they'd display "please use your provider's app to watch this channel", or simply discontinue them. Did some software update take everything down? Did February 1st hit and something didn't renew and they are all gone? Who knows.
s there a full list of channels affected. I have a hdhomrun so just want to swap the channels over to it.