ABC/ESPN/Disney Channels Not Working

Channels DVR Server TV Everywhere
#85

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.

#86

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.

#87

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.

#88

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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#89

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.

#90

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).

#91

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.

#92

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

#93

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.

#94

@rpaulmerrell Can you say a bit more (or provide a link)?

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#95

s there a full list of channels affected. I have a hdhomrun so just want to swap the channels over to it.

#96 
https://www.espn.com/watch/player?network=espn
https://www.espn.com/watch/player?network=espn2

These are links in the browser, if you run Chrome for channels or Prismcast (when they fix the current player issue) this is a workaround for them going away.

Otherwise you will need to install the ESPN app on Android TV device and go grab hardware that can do HDMI capture, then figure out what the deeplinks for ESPN live channels are.

If someone knows, please post them. I need to install that app as a backup.

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#99

I don’t know if I’m down with buying even more equipment just to watch tv at this point. I may just sail the 7 seas, or just say forget it all together and just stick to movies. I can watch 99% of my sports by apps since our rsn collapsed. It just sucks because I just updated all of my equipment, but it is what it is.

#100

It's not done yet, you may not have to buy more equipment. This is not the end, let's see what shakes out.

Like I said Prismcast will soon provide an alternative as long as ESPN doesn't go away in a Chrome browser. All you need is a relatively modern server to handle that.

#101

Yes please, don't be cryptic. Provide a link to how you created a workaround.

#102

Scroll up in the Topic thread for the list

AND

#104

Greedy, data-hungry corporations. They're going to create the social media algorithm but for TV ad breaks. Going to start seeing more slop ads like on the free Youtube app.

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#105

I'm pretty sure rpaulmerrell is referring to "add-ons" such as ADBTuner or CCC. But that's just an educated guess on my part. I can definitely vouch for ADBTuner...it's a terrific project and I've had a very good luck with it. With the nuking of the Disney-owned content, I may need to expand my fleet of tuners now, though.

#106

I think he's talking about the latest version of that project that got "delisted" here. It's basically a DRM crack, which pretty much falls into the same category as most IPTV, torrents and newsgroups.

I believe most of us here are looking for more legitimate methods for getting our content. No judgements though, we each need to make our own decisions about this kind of thing. It's just not the stuff of this forum.

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#107

Ah gotcha :slight_smile: Well, nevermind then :stuck_out_tongue:

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