Well another issue with the DRM on NBC --- can get the audio but not the video.
Probably missed something here in my setup
This a capture from RDP of the Windows machine
And this is in channels
Try disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome: How to disable hardware acceleration in Google Chrome - Pureinfotech
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Has anyone played around with this in Linux? If not, I plan to try once I have some free time (maybe see about Docker or a way to have multiple channels per instance?). Worst case, I'll see about trying it out on some virtual machines.
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I’ve been using the miibeez/vlc-bridge-pbs Docker with Channels for a long time and it works seamlessly and I believe PBS is using DRM. Why can’t this be adapted to other channels like NBC?
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Yeah, exactly. It's been asked multiple times how PBS can be made to work and NBC can't.
I have been exploring Xvfb but honestly did not make it very far yesterday.
Here's what I have gotten to thus far.
Start a Xvfb running firefox:
xvfb-run -n 99 -a --server-args="-screen 0 1024x8000x24 -ac -nolisten tcp -dpi 96 +extension RANDR" /snap/bin/firefox
Start recording with FFMPEG and make available via port 4444:
ffmpeg -video_size 640x1208 -f x11grab -i :99 -c:v libx264 -c:a aac -g 50 -b:v 4000k -maxrate 4000k -bufsize 8000k -f flv -listen 1 rtmp://localhost:4444/stream
Now tune into the virtual frame buffer from linux desktop:
ffplay -fflags -nobuffer -flags low_delay -probesize 32 -flags low_delay -analyzeduration 0 -i rtmp://localhost:4444/stream
Once more refined channels could subscribe to the the 4444 port or might have to uplink to nginx-rtmp (haven't made it this far yet).
Next steps are to get browser automation working via selenium.
See:
Their code is private, so no one has been able to figure it out. Back in the PBS thread, they said that things like NFL and NBC were not possible. I don't think that is true, but without the code, there is no way to no for sure!
FYI, I'm working on a V2 that should eliminate a lot of the quality and control over desktop issues, and also make things a little easier for Mac/Linux transition. It is based on something Aman sent over to me, so I'm going to get it clean and documented before releasing.
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I wonder why their code is private. Has anyone reached out to them and tried to see if they would be willing to help? It would be such a game changer for all of us, especially since it appears that the DRM trend will continue.
In any case, thank you so much for all of your hard work, and I look forward to following your progress… 
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Yeah the big question is if any browser can play this DRM content, it shouldn't be impossible there has to be a way for code to be able to do it with libraries.
But no one explains why it is or isn't possible.
My four hour recording went off without a hitch (USA Network), so I think it might have been something to do with the source stream.
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I saw something yesterday that should give a lot of hope. Stay tuned!
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Hi there,
I think i found someting that might help us here for those on Synology.
https://hub.docker.com/r/galexrt/vlc
Solved all my (self-inflicted permission) issues and now working like a champ on my physical machine! Got Hulu working to feed my additional subscription stations that do not have TVE. Thanks @babsonnexus for all the work on this solution.
Would you please provide the link to the GitHub? I’d love to try this!
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I was able to install the Docker and add the custom channel and now I have a channel named “Weahterscan”. How would I add NBC?
Thanks
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You'll find your answers over in the other thread, so head over there:
Thank you