Chrome Capture for Channels

bweezy21 · March 7, 2024, 5:33pm

i'm running on windows... wonder if a chrome update broke it for me.

Node server runs and video is displayed in the Chrome window that pops up. The video appears to never be served to channels...

sheepy · March 7, 2024, 6:10pm

I had disabled Chrome updates on mine, so, I believe I'm still on version 114, if memory serves.

TV_Ken · March 7, 2024, 8:49pm

There are 1400 messages here. I have read a lot of them. Still don't know what I'm doing. I tried using docker. Got no video. Tried .EXE for win-64, Weatherscan shows video, but audio keeps cutting in and out. Command screen shows:

[2024/03/07 15:31:00.740] Chrome Capture server listening on port 5589
[2024/03/07 15:31:52.177] streaming https://weatherscan.net/
[2024/03/07 15:33:17.081] streaming https://windy.com
[2024/03/07 15:36:00.059] streaming https://weatherscan.net/
[2024/03/07 15:39:04.087] streaming https://weatherscan.net/

Windy shows video with no audio. Not sure if it has any audio.

Any hints on what to try next?

TV_Ken · March 7, 2024, 9:04pm

New info:
My GPU is running at 85% to 99% while Chrome capture is running.

bweezy21 · March 7, 2024, 10:24pm

want to update after uninstalling and reinstalling chrome it works again. not sure what the issues were.

dabox · March 8, 2024, 4:16pm

Hi all, I am giving this a go on Windows 11. I got the weatherscan to show but all youtubetv channels give me a white screen.

11th Gen Intel Core [email protected]
24GB memory

sheepy · March 8, 2024, 4:32pm

I think we know that YTTV does not work reliably with CC4C. It works very well with ADBTuner, however. But, that requires additional hardware.

dabox · March 8, 2024, 4:42pm

Thanks, I ordered a URayCoder HEVC H.265 H.264 Live HDMI Video Encoder this morning. Thought I give this a shot until I receive it 2morrow.

TV_Ken · March 8, 2024, 4:57pm

I removed Chrome and reinstalled. I now have version 122.0. Is this version okay? If not, where do I get a better one?

dabox · March 8, 2024, 5:05pm

I tried Philo tv and now get the live TV stream. Great work, thanks again.

sheepy · March 8, 2024, 5:15pm

@TV_Ken, I'm still on version 114 with no issues, for what that is worth. I'm not using the PC running CC4C for anything else, so I'm not too concerned about keeping that outdated version running. I've used uptodown to pull previous versions in the past.

dho · March 9, 2024, 4:47pm

Nope, unfortunately . If you manage to get anywhere, let me know! Still would be great, and, if someone can get it to work reliably for NBC, I’d probably use that instead of my Mac solution!

hofs1 · March 9, 2024, 8:07pm

NBC seems to be working fine even on Chrome 122 Im on a simple dedicated CC4C / Channels PC

GTFan · March 10, 2024, 4:26pm

Yeah all of the NBC channels work fine for me.

hofs1 · March 10, 2024, 5:56pm

I see your viewing inside the channels applet itself.
I have had issues with CC4C channels playing inside the app BUT play fine on the TV or Phone
Just saying

dabox · March 12, 2024, 1:56pm

@ hofs1, it does work on the TV. Thanks for that information. I also got the HDMI encoder working with ADBTuner yesterday. Thanks again!

hofs1 · March 21, 2024, 10:01pm

My CC4C list I just added the Hallmark channels at the bottom and a few others

If anyone can stop the YES login from Muting itself I'd truly be in you debt.....Ive tried many things all with no luck BUT i can only run the Windows EXE no docker knowledge

#EXTM3U

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="YES",YES
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://watchyesnetwork.com/watch

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="NBC Local",NBC Local
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.nbc.com/live?brand=nbc

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="Bravo (East)",Bravo (East)
chrome://localhost:5589/stream/bravo

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="CNBC",CNBC
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.nbc.com/live?brand=cnbc&callsign=cnbc

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="E! (East)",E! (East)
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.nbc.com/live?brand=e&callsign=e_east

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="Golf",Golf
chrome://localhost:5589/stream/golf

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="MSNBC",MSNBC
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.nbc.com/live?brand=msnbc&callsign=msnbc 1

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="Oxygen (East)",IFC
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.nbc.com/live?brand=oxygen&callsign=oxygen_east

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="IFC",IFC
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.ifc.com/live

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="SyFy (East)",SyFy (East)
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.nbc.com/live?brand=syfy&callsign=syfy_east

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="USA (East)",USA (East)
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.nbc.com/live?brand=usa&callsign=usa_east

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="TVLand",TVLand
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.tvland.com/live-tv/

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="CMT",CMT
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.cmt.com/live-tv/

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="LogoTV",LogoTV
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.logotv.com/live-tv/

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="MTV",MTV
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.mtv.com/live-tv/

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="CCentral",CCentral
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.cc.com/live-tv/

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="VH1",VH1
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.vh1.com/live-tv/

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="Paramount",Paramount
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.paramountnetwork.com/live-tv/

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="Hallmark",Hallmark
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.watchhallmarktv.com/playback/item/live

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="Hallmark-Drama",Hallmark-Drama
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.watchhallmarktv.com/playback/item/hdlive

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="Hallmark-Mystery",Hallmark-Mystery
chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=https://www.watchhallmarktv.com/playback/item/hmmlive

bpa_dvr · March 23, 2024, 12:16am

I've forgotten how to get the stream page to click the play button? I thought I had done this before for like NBC live channels.

I've got an Amazon Prime series streamlink to the show I want to play, but the video doesn't start unless I click the play button.

ex: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C6Xxxxxx

hofs1 · March 23, 2024, 11:06pm

If anyone can stop the YES login from Muting itself I'd truly be in you debt.....Ive tried many many things all with no luck BUT i can only run the Windows EXE no docker knowledge.

Heck id even offer up a YES login to get it fixed

https://watchyesnetwork.com/watch

bpa_dvr · March 28, 2024, 10:22pm

I really would like to know if this is a feature of the app that I just could not figure out.

Well, anyway, I couldn't find anything about being able to click the 'play' button on this Amazon Prime page or even any web page

So, I just wrote a junky powershell to fix my need for this.
--powershell runs in a endless loop watching the chrome tabs for a tab with my show name
--when it discovers any chrome tab window, it starts a pre-saved mouse macro that does the mouse move/clicks
-- it loops and monitors the page for up to 2 minutes while the mouse macro is playing to click the buttons needed, at the end of 2 minutes it makes sure the mouse macro is taskkill
--after that it loops and monitors the tab windows (that is recording or playing) to watch if the page is still playing for 60 minutes
--if the tab window stops playing at any time during the loop, it closes the loop and resets the timers and restarts a new loop and watches for the 'show named' tab to open again, thus restarting the entire cycle again

I've beat up testing this process with 100% success everytime, but it's ugly in my opinion

and yes, it just ignores any tab that does not have my show name in the tab title

# 'MYSHOWTITLE' in this script is the name presented in the chrome tab title
# 'MacroRecorder.exe' is my mouse program that physically acts like a mouse movement and clicker
# '.\MYSHOWTITLE_click.mcr' is the file script saved from the app MacroRecorder.exe
$global:TestFile = $null
$global:ChromeIS = $null
$global:chrometitle = $null
$global:i = $null

timeout 3

taskkill /f /t /im MacroRecorder.ex*

timeout 3

$global:TestFile = '.\PageRunning.txt'
if (Test-Path $global:TestFile) {
 Remove-Item $global:TestFile -force
 }
timeout 3

function ChromeStatus {
 $global:ChromeIS = 2
 $global:chrometitle = Get-Process chrome | select -expandproperty MainWindowTitle
 if ($global:chrometitle -like "*MYSHOWTITLE*") { Write-host "-0- MYSHOWTITLE is playing now" } else { Write-host "-1- MYSHOWTITLE page not playing" }
 if ($global:chrometitle -like "*MYSHOWTITLE*") { $global:ChromeIS = 0 } else { $global:ChromeIS = 1 }
write-host "--- $global:ChromeIs ---"
}

function ChromeAction {
 $global:ChromeIS = 2
 $global:chrometitle = Get-Process chrome | select -expandproperty MainWindowTitle
 if ($global:chrometitle -like "*MYSHOWTITLE*") { Write-host "-0- MYSHOWTITLE is playing now" } else { Write-host "-1- MYSHOWTITLE page not playing" }
 if ($global:chrometitle -like "*MYSHOWTITLE*") { $global:ChromeIS = 0 } else { $global:ChromeIS = 1 }
write-host ("--- $global:ChromeIs ---")
if ($global:chrometitle -like "*MYSHOWTITLE*") { 
 Write-Host ("-0- Yes MYSHOWTITLE page is playing") > $global:TestFile
write-host ("--- $global:ChromeIs ---")
 timeout 5
 StartMouseClicks
 StartUpWaiting
 RecordingWaiting
 Remove-Item $global:TestFile -force
 } else { 
 Write-Host ("-1- NO MYSHOWTITLE page not found")
write-host ("--- $global:ChromeIs ---")
 if (Test-Path $global:TestFile) {
  Remove-Item $global:TestFile -force
 Write-Host ("-1- NO MYSHOWTITLE page not found again")
  timeout 2
 }
}
}

function StartMouseClicks {
 write-host "start MacroRecorder"
 taskkill /f /t /im MacroRecorder.ex*
 timeout 2
 .\MYSHOWTITLE_click.mcr
 timeout 2
}

# timer set to 21/25 is equal to approximately 2 minutes
function StartUpWaiting {
 for ($i = 1; $i -le 25; $i++) {
  Write-Host "$i count while waiting during startup"
  if ($i -eq 21) {
   break
  }
 $global:chrometitle = Get-Process chrome | select -expandproperty MainWindowTitle
 if ($global:chrometitle -like "*MYSHOWTITLE*") { Write-host "-0- MYSHOWTITLE startup is still playing" } else { Write-host "-1- MYSHOWTITLE page not playing" }
 if ($global:chrometitle -like "*MYSHOWTITLE*") { $global:ChromeIS = 0 } else { $global:ChromeIS = 1 }
 write-host ("--- $global:ChromeIs ---")
 if ($global:chrometitle -like "*MYSHOWTITLE*") { Write-Host "YES MYSHOWTITLE page is streaming" } else { 
 write-host "stopping MacroRecorder"
 taskkill /f /t /im MacroRecorder.ex*
 break }
   timeout 5
 }
}

# timer set to 830/840 is equal to 69 minutes
function RecordingWaiting {
 for ($i = 1; $i -le 840; $i++) {
  Write-Host "$i count while recording show"
  if ($i -eq 830) {
   break
  }
 $global:chrometitle = Get-Process chrome | select -expandproperty MainWindowTitle
 if ($global:chrometitle -like "*MYSHOWTITLE*") { Write-host "-0- MYSHOWTITLE is still playing" } else { Write-host "-1- MYSHOWTITLE page not playing" }
 if ($global:chrometitle -like "*MYSHOWTITLE*") { $global:ChromeIS = 0 } else { $global:ChromeIS = 1 }
 write-host ("--- $global:ChromeIs ---")
 if ($global:chrometitle -like "*MYSHOWTITLE*") { Write-Host "___" } else { 
 write-host "stopping MacroRecorder"
 taskkill /f /t /im MacroRecorder.ex*
 break }
   timeout 5
 }
}

function Test-File {
 Test-Path $global:TestFile
}

do {
 if (-not (Test-File)) {
  Write-Host "Web NOT Found -- first loop"
  ChromeAction
  timeout 5
 }
} until (Test-File)

do {
 if (Test-File) {
  Write-Host "Web Found - second loop"
  ChromeAction
  timeout 5
 }
} until (Test-File)

timeout 2

exit