You can still resurrect the News channels as they're on FAST services and Youtube
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I wonder if this can be used to snag the stream right from Hulu, YouTube tv, or providers website directly.
I can still access ESPN and the likes through the FIOS web browser/streams. Interesting that this would break. Are we sure that its a complete TVe abandoned or not simply a fix that can be applied?
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I don't see the free abcnews regional channels any more on Sling Freestream, nor do I see them through the Pluto app.
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5986 ABC also gone...
Go to ESPN and link your Provider
Go to https://www.espn.com/watch/browse/ and scroll down to Channels
Pick your channel
Or view the schedule to see what's on each channel https://www.espn.com/watch/schedule/
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Interesting development. I've just started with Channels, love it, but I don't really love any of the Disney channels so I just downgraded my Sling subscription. Thanks for all the insight!
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That's not a live channel from what I can see, it's the current live program. Not a linear program like I said, please correct me if I'm wrong but when I play it it has a clearly defined end not showing as live.
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You are correct, but the linear program is somehow still available in the FIOS webApp, just not TVe at the moment?
I didn't play anything for the full duration, just spot checked a few channels and relied on their help articles like this one https://support.espn.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003814612-Is-the-content-streaming-on-the-ESPN-app-or-on-ESPN-com-different-from-the-ESPN-networks-on-my-TV
So I tuned into ESPN2 and turned on the player Setting > Autoplay and it continued to play the channel from one game to the next without any interruption. That might be the secret sauce.
Yes I am no longer to watch ESPN channels for the past few days. I just get the ESPN logo that usually only plays during commercials. I am not sure what happened.
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.
See
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).