I watched NFL Redzone and NFL Network yesterday with no issue
Just wondering.. ESPN+ still hit and miss? anyone tested ESPN3/ABC? Bears vs Commanders tonight
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Yeah the other three games recorded fine, it was just the NBC game last night that didn't work. Like I said it seems to be somewhat random when you get this error.
This has been an issue since the container was created IMO, I've seen it many times. Usually a container restart followed by a guide data refresh fixes it, so something gets messed up with the mapping between what's scheduled on a channel and the actual URL to pull.
It may be a bug in the container, or maybe the URL gets pulled out from under the container by Fox or whatever between the time it's scheduled and the actual air time. Who knows, the problem is that it makes it somewhat unreliable.
I don't know how the container is built but maybe some sort of time-based checks need to be done to make sure the URLs stay valid between schedule time and airtime.
ESPN3/ABC seems to work . What about ESPN+? Is it still drm?
Can ESPNDeportes be added as linear channel?
That might happen on the regular channels, but I also had it happen on a linear channel (ACCN).
Might be two different causes, but all we can see is the same error message in the container log.
tony I know your busy, but can you fix abc/espn3 failing on nextpvr? Other channels seem fine but nextpvr bugs out
I even ran ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i http://localhost:8000/channels/3007.m3u8 -t 60 -c copy test.ts
That worked fine. I included logs here, one of the main coder there doesn't know what to do either. He says its eplustv fault, but it works fine on ffmpeg and vlc. Any ideas?
https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=66598&pid=604109#pid604109
This is how it loads in nextpvr, only ESPN3 does it. - I don't think SEC+, ACCX or Linear do this
It really unfortunate as most of the games I want to record are ESPN3/ABC
In the forums I included a log can we isolate the issue with ESPN3 ? Would really like to record the bama game. For some reason it works different than linear and ACCX/sec+
I don't know anything about NextPVR.
Can you see where it drops out in NextPVR, while you are running a simultaneous capture in ffmpeg?
Do you know if you get ESPN3 via your ISP or via TVE?
Is this just normal?
ACCN Linear channel failing again
2025-10-15T03:30:32.510427910Z Channel #104 has an active event (Pittsburgh vs. #25 Florida State). Going to start the stream.
2025-10-15T03:30:33.636998020Z Channel #104 was setup improperly... Removing.
2025-10-15T03:30:34.314475938Z Could not get a playlist for channel #104. Please make sure there is an event scheduled and you have access to it.
ESPNU Linear channel failing
2025-10-15T03:33:00.757883289Z Could not get a playlist for channel #102. Please make sure there is an event scheduled and you have access to it.
ESPN1, ESPN2, ESPNEWS and SEC Linear channels are working.
Restarted the container and all channels are working now.
ESPNU did have a hard time starting the stream after restarting the container though
2025-10-15T03:41:41.890390199Z === Done building the schedule ===
2025-10-15T03:41:57.095432262Z Channel #102 has an active event (College Football Live). Going to start the stream.
2025-10-15T03:41:57.185674257Z Could not get stream data. Event might be upcoming, ended, or in blackout...
2025-10-15T03:41:57.187134917Z Failed to parse the stream
2025-10-15T03:41:57.187783815Z Could not get a playlist for channel #102. Please make sure there is an event scheduled and you have access to it.
2025-10-15T03:41:58.225951566Z Channel #102 has an active event (College Football Live). Going to start the stream.
It seems to work with vlc and ffmpeg..it's something to do with how often nextpvr checks for the m3u8, for some reason it only has issues with ESPN3. Have we looked into ESPN+ more? Is it all events or just some that are DRM?
Can we also add ESPNDeportes as a channel?
I tried to play multiple ESPN+ events last night and none worked. I've been out of town for the past several days...
Afaik last week some of them still played I guess we will see. Tony may need to add the chrome capture ip prefix for it to work in chrome capture
It seems non ESPN+ stuff works , stuff that isn't technically exclusive. ESPN+ contains
ESPN3/ABC/ESPN Deportes (some)
ACCX
SEC+
All these still work it seems
EPlusTV v4.13.7 just pushed.
Removes all ESPN+ events, although it leaves the ESPN Account token available for those that need it.
Prefers ESPN3 via TVE over ISP, if both are available. If that applies to you, you will need to re-authenticate the "ESPN with TV Provider" provider in the EPlusTV GUI.
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can you have espn+ have its own docker and use the chrome capture url?
"chrome://localhost:5589/stream?url=URL HERE"
The sorting is still really nice and it would be nice to have on chrome capture - android hdmi4c people could figure something out too
Also:
-ESPN Deportes linear, can it be added? - SportsCenter (10/15/25) - Stream en vivo - ESPN Deportes
-ABC (ABC usually uses EPSN3) , are they different links?
Sorry for annoying you - I would gladly venmo/cashapp/pay-pal you for your hard work.
If we can get a decent ESPN+ epg working I can integrate it into chrome capture using a similar process to this, or better
Maybe some of your techniques will work better. Can you check my code?
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Help me understand the impact..... Does this mean The Mouse broke the functionality so we cant use this container for ESPN+ events anymore? I am getting "Reconnecting"... errors on all events., even after updating to the newest container image.
(On another note, where can I learn how to use the Filters function better? I want only to pull the games of a small set of teams.)
Unfortunately, that is correct. No more ESPN+ here.
See ESPN+ & FOX Sports with Custom Channels via EPlusTV - #2250 by tonywagner for some filter tips!
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I think both of these can be added, look for another update tomorrow.
I'm not planning to do any capture stuff or support it in this project. But someone else could do it, and base it on this project if they want.
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Thanks so much. Could you at least have it provide guide data still?
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Just run two eplus containers and use an older version for guide data.
true but question is how long will that work, and for others how can they grab old build?