Only the TVE channels that Channels DVR currently supports
The YouTube TV sub would include them, but Channels DVR isn't currently working with those TVE channels.
See response from babsonnexus
I can answer for @Michael_Birk because I also have DirecTV and the answer is: no.
Just using the DirecTV app to record to the cloud (I have the Stream version of DirecTV) and play back.
All correct. I've switched to my adbtuner-powered YTTV feed with an HDMI encoder for now and it works fine, but I was much happier with the silent splash screen in place of all the ads on CNN that I got with TVE. Same ads over and over - Sunsetter awnings, gutter guards, medicare, and drugs, drugs, drugs.
If you use prismcast to get CNN from their website all you get is the silent splash screen during commercials, but is that really an issue? I would never watch any of these live, the ad breaks are ridiculous.
Somewhat off topic, but I've found comskip can't handle those splash screen commercial breaks, but seems to do a much better job with the regular commercials.
Yeah I've seen that and it's really weird because you think that would be a no-brainer lol.
I wish I knew how to get from prism to work
I just wish it was a simple executable and that's all
Damn
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Unfortunately channels has morphed into a very tech savvy product, I think it's kind of always been that way but it's even more so now.
And it's not channels fault, I'm not trying to bash them or anything it's just that we've all seen how the content providers want to clamp down on how you access the product.
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That's exactly the behavior that I used to enjoy with TVE (silent splash screen instead of commercials) and what I want to get back with Prismcast.
I get that, but it's not really that big of a deal to skip forward a few times. It was awesome to have seamless skips on TVE.
I've seen cases with CNN on prismcast where comskip works fine and others where it doesn't with the splash screens. It's kind of strange. Comskip even with enhanced detection is a crapshoot and always has been.
The change Channels made a few years ago to handle skipping the static screens was (I think) targeted to specific channels to avoid causing problems elsewhere and in general works pretty well for me when I record programs. But I mostly watch CNN live in the background as I'm getting ready in the morning and I much prefer the periodic silence to blaring commercials.
Interestingly, I was just playing with Prismcast going to cnn.com and I'm getting commercials there after logging in with my YTTV credentials.
Edit: So it seems like I get some commercials on the cnn.com feed, but not others. It seems like it switched to a static screen near the end of the commercial feed, so I think I'm getting the national commercials and a static image in place of the local inserts.
Still have a couple of the Turners but still no CNN, it gets old not knowing what is going to work. Everything was great when my Ceton cable card just worked, then our provider changed and drm'd everything. The software is great, especially the virtual channels and my wife would never know if TVE never worked again, but it is becoming a pain. Tried a capture method a long time ago and it was horrible so I haven't tried Prismcast, but after watching @babsonnexus YouTube video and trying to read through the threads it looks legit. Going to give it a try
All you really have to do on a PC is install Node.js.
Just install the stable version. Node.js — Download Node.js®
once everything's installed and you've just gone through the basic prompts and obviously followed the prompt to install npm, you just run that command.
npm install -g prismcast just from a regular command prompt.
That will install Prismcast. Node.js is simply the runtime.
I would suggest paging through the documentation here the commands are pretty simple. On macOS I would say it's a little bit easier and I believe Prismcast was originally designed for macOS So if you have a Mac mini lying around That's really the ideal device to use on From what I experienced. That just involves installing it with Homebrew.
then
brew install hjdhjd/prismcast/prismcast
I would suggest using maybe ChatGPT/Claude to kind of walk you through some of this stuff, but it should be fairly straightforward. You don't need a command line based AI agent to do this as long as you can copy and paste and follow directions. I'm sure people in the community here will be willing to help as well. 
I personally don't use Prismcast, but it's not too difficult to get up and running. I have tried in the past. It just wasn't what I ended up using.
I know it isn't TVE. But you can get it in Channels by using streamlinks. There is a thread on this site somewhere to get all the NBC channels working that way.
If I recall, it looked something like this. This definitely works. But you have to have the msnbc channel installed and logged in on your appletv to access that channel via channels.
Unfortunately, I don't believe there is a similar solution for CNN.
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="bravo" tvc-guide-stationid="58625",BRAVO
nbctve://live/bravo
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="msnbc" tvc-guide-stationid="64241",MSNBC
msnbctve://live/msnbc
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="cnbc" tvc-guide-stationid="58780",CNBC
nbctve://live/cnbc
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="nbcsn-philly” tvg-chno="6061" tvc-guide-stationid=“96232”,NBCSN PHILADELPHIA
nbcsportstve://live/rsn-philadelphia
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="nbc-news" tvc-guide-stationid="114174",NBCNN
nbctve://live/nbc-news
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="usa" tvc-guide-stationid="74030",USA
nbctve://live/usa
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="e!" tvc-guide-stationid="91579",E!
nbctve://live/e
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="oxygen" tvc-guide-stationid="74032",OXYGEN
nbctve://live/oxygen
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="golf" tvc-guide-stationid="61854",GOLF
nbctve://live/golf
You can create streamlines for the NBC channels to get them into Channels
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="bravo" tvc-guide-stationid="58625",BRAVO
nbctve://live/bravo
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="msnbc" tvc-guide-stationid="64241",MSNBC
msnbctve://live/msnbc
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="cnbc" tvc-guide-stationid="58780",CNBC
nbctve://live/cnbc
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="nbcsn-philly” tvg-chno="6061" tvc-guide-stationid=“96232”,NBCSN PHILADELPHIA
nbcsportstve://live/rsn-philadelphia
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="nbc-news" tvc-guide-stationid="114174",NBCNN
nbctve://live/nbc-news
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="usa" tvc-guide-stationid="74030",USA
nbctve://live/usa
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="e!" tvc-guide-stationid="91579",E!
nbctve://live/e
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="oxygen" tvc-guide-stationid="74032",OXYGEN
nbctve://live/oxygen
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="golf" tvc-guide-stationid="61854",GOLF
nbctve://live/golf
Everyone here is great. No egos here just solid knowledge
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Looks like they went DRM
I had the problem reconnecting TVE some months ago. if you go into Channels Advanced you can select Old TVE Embedded Chrome Launcher. That allowed me to reconnect TVE.
I even tried that but that didn't work for me either. I had a screen I had never seen before.