I have a way of downloading my recordings, but it's not great. I believe an integration between the 2 services would be very beneficial for both sides & I truly believe they'd be very open to it.
Hopefully not. This would be incredibly awesome for a lot of people!
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In the case of PlayOn, they already had a PlayOn Downloader that people were already using with Channels imports feature. So the integration was very simple and straightfoward.
With Stremium there are a lot more unknowns. Ideally they would build out a similar downloader feature, and then users could use it with Plex or Emby or Kodi or Channels as they see fit. FYI we have reached out to them in the past, but they were not interested in working with us at the time.
Interesting, maybe because you're such a close competitor. I don't see it that way though, both services offer very different things & I personally have to use both to get what I want. I might try & reach back out to Fitzgerald & see if he's interested. Last I talked to him he was begging for help because his development team was so small. He seemed welcome to anyone improving his product.
How do you download them? Thanks in advance.
I don't record much using Stremium as it doesn't work as well as Channels so I haven't invested any time in an automatic solution. You can watch the recordings from a desktop so I play the video from the browser & use a chrome extension called Video Downloadhelper to download that recording to insert into my server.
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sportman, are you doing anything special to get videodownload helper to work? im opening the recordings page and playing the stremium recording but videodownload helper isnt detecting any videos.
I was able to get it to download but there were so many other issues, mainly lip sinc, I quickly bailed. Note that I only tested one recording. Unless somebody posts positive experiences I doubt I will mess with it again, although I haven't deleted the extention.
My guess why it didn't work for you is along with the extension, you have to add another download that does the heavy lifting.
care to elaborate on what that other download would be for the heavy lifting?
Only that when I added the extension, I also had to download something else. Are you saying that you weren't prompted to download anything else? If you simply added the extension to chrome, and it isn't working, you might want to delete it and try again. From my experience with one tv show, it might not be worth the effort. ymmv.
Is there a way to pull the stremium streams into Channels DVR? That way you can just record it via Channels DVR and not worry about downloading anything?
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What streams? You can probably add them but not within Stremium.
I wish but they don't stream in m3u8 so I don't know of anyway. I wish someone would create something to pull the m3u playlist from Stremium to play in Channels though.
What advantages are there with Stremium? There were a few channels in the past I could only get with Stremium but now I also get them on Channels, so using Stremium would be redundant.
One advantage is if you use spectrum. Stremium uses the tv feeds direct from spectrum, which are higher quality and more reliable as opposed to the tv everywhere feeds channels uses.
I use Spectrum and have no quality or reliability issues. I always thought cable feeds were more compressed, especially compared to OTA? So Stremium doesn't use TVE? When I used Stremium before they started charging for basic streaming, I thought they used TVE, just like Channels? Did they change? When I used it, the quality wasn't any better.
Stremium pulls channels in that TVE doesn’t. For instance Spectrum Sportsnet.
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Yes, stremium changed. They were tve but their implementation of it faced a legal threat so they stopped. Now at least for spectrum they use the internet streams that appear directly in the spectrum app, which are generally higher quality than tve.
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Do you know specifically what makes them higher quality? Is it simply they have less compression? Have you seen anyone compare the streams of the popular sports networks like ESPN and TNT?
I wonder if their implementation is like the way Channels does custom channels, or is it something completely different?
In my opinion it comes down to resolution and frames per second. The direct spectrum feed is generally 720 or 1080 at 60 fps. The tve feeds widely vary on that. In the case of espn I wouldn't notice a difference because their tve feed is 720p 60 fps. But if you watch tennis channel over tve...it's 720p 30 fps....it's noticably lower quality than the 1080 60fps feed direct from spectrum. Another difference is that the direct spectrum feeds are identical to the channel as you'd watch on a cable box. So no "well be right back screen" or weird commercial insertions that sometimes happen with tve. But I would say if the tve channel you are watching is 1080 or 720 60 you won't notice a quality difference. ( Even 1080 30fps looking a equivalent on content without lots of motion). If you are watching something that's 720p 30 on tve it's obvious the spectrum feed is better. I also find the spectrum feeds more reliable...tve websites have a habit of breaking or going down every so often ....the direct spectrum feeds generally don't.
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