too many scrapers... I can't keep 'em all straight!
so to confirm - even with the ones you have subscribed to, they don't show up in FC? Maybe the API I scrape doesn't show those premiums. I'll mess around with it.
Funny u mention that. As i was gonna ask, how does that even work?
It says u can select multiple, but i can't seem to.
I can use Shift and select all of them in a row, but not specfic ones.
I just want Local, Canada, and UK. But i end up selecting everything.
rn, i had only Canada selected.
Maybe i should just select everything? For maximum scrapage.
did you use your CTRL button when you click?
and maybe Star Trek is only listed under United States (east)? I'm just guessing btw - worth trying it and then a fresh scrape to see if those channels come back up for you.
CTRL just opens right click menu.
oh..derp...cmd/alt on MacOS does it right.
i did look at the channels the scraper excluded (due to no playback envelop):
- AMC
- AMC+
- BBC America
- beIN SPORTS
- beIN SPORTS en Español
- Cinemax Action
- Cinemax Classics
- Cinemax HD East
- Cinemax Hits
- Cinemax West
- CNN International
- CNN Originals
- CNN Stream
- IFC
- MAX Latino East
- Sundance TV
- The Walking Dead Channel
not saying your other channels don't exist, but at least not on the page I current scrape.
And. yup. The channels be back. LOLZ
Weird, since last i messed with the Region settings was like a month ago.
Only now, they dissapear.
They do! I did a quick check last night and was able to get the 4 Screenpix channels, and the 7-8 Starz channels, minus Starz West. IIRC YES (Gotham Sports) and MLBN also worked.
Logs have been submitted as **b3d3dbad-18d3-4321-8323-667c8a518272
is this what you're looking for ?
We've confirmed with @radiohacker's logs that the issue of repeating content is with the Pluto ad injection. There's nothing we can do about it — we're recording the stream we are receiving.
@radiohacker if you update to the latest DVR pre-release, there are some small fixes you will benefit from.
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thank you for verifying the issue with pluto. i'll stay with the release version since the whole family uses this 
New error on Prismcast Bridge when I run "test setup":
Test failed to run: TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
When I tested a few Amazon bridged channels in Channels, they played ok, as did a few "regular" Prismcast channels not running through FC.
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Well, it does not do it on the Pluto app, or website, so, must be something different in how those are fed then.
@speedingcheetah The app and website do have the commercial loop issue. people have been complaining about that for years. It's not every channel and not all the time, but everything I have seen on it blames the way they inject the commercials. Just look on Pluto's Reddit page
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Well, i guess i not watch them long enough. 
But i watched 3 episodes, back to back, on three devices, Apple TV (Channels), Mac Mini (web site) ipad mini (App). The only thing that repeated was the ATV with Channels. Channels had a repeat of both like 10 sec, or 10 min, 2x in each episode. The website and app did not at all.
And that link is a archived thread for freezing issues. Not anything about programs backtracking or repeating sections (unless its buried in one persons comments in there)
I think we’ve debated it long enough. All FC does is forward the HLS stream straight to CDVR and all CDVR is play the stream it gets from Pluto. Pluto servers sometimes send the wrong timing during a return from an ad interjection with their stitching. Look up Server Side Ad Interjection (SSAI) if you wanna learn more.
There’s really nothing else that can be done. It’s unfortunate but we get what we pay for I guess. I love Plutos content - I personally think it’s the best.
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FastChannels 5.1.0 — What's New
Headline: FastChannels Player — a new Android HDMI-encoder bridge
Some channels can't be played back directly and need a real device to play them — a Fire TV or Android TV box whose HDMI output gets captured back into Channels DVR. This started as an experiment built on Kodi; I've since pivoted to FastChannels Player, a custom Android app that uses the device's own built-in Fire TV/Android TV player instead.
Important — this is not a decryption tool. FastChannels Player doesn't crack, strip, or bypass anything. It remote-triggers normal playback on your own device and captures that device's HDMI output, just like using a capture card with a TV. Provider licensing and entitlement checks still happen normally on your device.
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More reliable playback than the earlier Kodi-based experiment — no more random freezes on channel or ad-break transitions.
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Works with either a fixed single HDMI encoder — tested with this single-port HDMI encoder (Amazon.com: Hagibis USB3.0 Video Capture Card with 100W PD HDMI to USB/USB C 1080P HD 60fps Live and Record Video Audio Game MS2130 for Quest 3 2 Pro VR Switch2 PS4/5 Live Broadcast, Gaming, Streaming (UHC07P) : Electronics) — or ah4c (GitHub - sullrich/ah4c: This is a fork of https://github.com/tmm1/androidhdmi-for-channels which aims to be a drop in replacement and provide for reliance on hdmi encoding via network or application tuners. Expanding support to docker and beyond! · GitHub), a third-party project that supports a much wider range of capture hardware: Hauppauge, Magewell, Blackmagic DeckLink, network encoders, and more. The ah4c path is now tested end-to-end with a LinkPi network encoder and Fire TV Stick.
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Fully automated install: a button in Settings pushes the app to your device over ADB, with no manual sideloading.
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Captions/subtitles, a one-click “Add to Channels DVR” button, and an idle-stop watchdog so a channel doesn’t stream forever after everyone stops watching.
This is still device- and hardware-dependent setup, so please read the setup guide before diving in: docs/fc-player-setup.md.
New TV Everywhere providers
- YouTube and YouTube TV are now selectable sign-in providers in Settings → TV Everywhere, alongside Cox, Sling, and Xfinity.
- YouTube TV is newer and less battle-tested than the other providers, and is flagged as such in the UI. Let me know how it holds up.
Bug fixes
Cleaned up a batch of sign-in and guide-data issues on providers that have been around a while — none of these are new problems, just old ones I finally tracked down: NBC guide data going empty after NBC changed something on their end, FYI (A+E) sign-in breaking after A+E restructured their site, Cox sign-ins occasionally colliding during multi-channel logins, DirecTV Stream browser sign-in reliability, and improved Gracenote guide-ID matching across several TVE channels.
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Thanks @KineticMan. I'm testing now and getting stuck on FYI's login, been on this screen for 5+ minutes so far. There was a popup that I clicked Next on, sorry I didn't take a screen shot and don't recall the specific question. I'll reboot the container and see if I can capture more of what's happening.
EDIT - Restarted and tried just to do FYI vs all, but getting this (no prompt showing up now):
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@KineticMan Also, what would you think if we added a $FASTCHANNELS_URL env var to the standard ah4c Docker Compose, and added the scripts/firetv/fastchannels to the repo? That would eliminate a step or two for people to get up-and-running.
yep anything to make it easier - you know that's my #1 goal!