TVE PBS Kids not working

[morningbus]

I've been having issues with the TVE PBS Kids for over a week now, too. My channel still plays, but it starts in the middle of some random show every single time. It's always the same show, too with some Dinosaurs playing shuffleboard. Same behavior recording and live tuning.

Diagnostics if it helps: 6d0f93c2-810d-440d-a98b-548c008a4b82

[CodeMonkey]

This has been happening to me as well! I don't watch the channel much and stumbled on it accidentally. It wasn't a big enough deal for me to do anything about though.

[Matthew_Crommert]

Okay yeah this is weird....I have the same dinosaurs scene but it never gets past that...halfway through the scene it just stops and fails

[pdaphone]

@morningbus

I've been having issues with the TVE PBS Kids for over a week now, too. My channel still plays, but it starts in the middle of some random show every single time. It's always the same show, too with some

Same here... That dinosaur show is what you get whenever you start PBS Kids. The PBS Kids over our antenna is fine, so its definitely the TVE feed that is messed up. I thought TVE feeds were just running a stream out there, so how is it that everyone is getting a show from the beginning whenever you go to that channel? That doesn't make sense. Its been doing it for us now for several weeks.

Has anyone tried to contact PBS about it? I googled and they have a place to submit a ticket.

[alai]

The website works for me here: https://pbskids.org/video/livetv

Edit: looked at the logs and Channels DVR is still parsing 'https://live-cdn.pbskids.org/out/u/est.m3u8', which is no longer used. I think the devs just need to update the stream URL.

[tmm1]

Try prerelease

[morningbus]

Seems to have fixed it for me. Thanks!

[Matthew_Crommert]

You are the man

[boukmandutty]

Seems to have stopped working again. I have the most recent pre-release installed.

[chDVRuser]

Same here. 403 Forbidden error.

2023/08/30 17:30:53.688438 [TVE] action=auth mvpd=Comcast_SSO requestor=telemundo
2023/08/30 17:30:53.689628 [TVE] action=xvfb display=:884
2023/08/30 17:30:56.330870 [TVE] action=version product=Chrome/109.0.5414.74 jsVersion=10.9.194.9 protocol=1.3 revision=@e7c5703604daa9cc128ccf5a5d3e993513758913
2023/08/30 17:30:56.341701 [TVE] action=navigate url=https://sp.auth.adobe.com/adobe-services/authenticate/saml?noflash=true&mso_id=Comcast_SSO&requestor_id=telemundo&no_iframe=true&domain_name=adobe.com&redirect_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsp.auth.adobe.com%2Fadobe-services%2FcompletePassiveAuthentication
2023/08/30 17:30:56.347087 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://sp.auth.adobe.com/adobe-services/authenticate/saml
2023/08/30 17:30:56.679829 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://oauth.xfinity.com/oauth/authorize
2023/08/30 17:30:57.090942 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://login.xfinity.com/login
2023/08/30 17:30:57.090995 [TVE] action=auth_domain domain=login.xfinity.com
2023/08/30 17:30:59.384615 [TVE] action=wait_for_page
2023/08/30 17:31:02.811256 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://oauth.xfinity.com/oauth/authorize
2023/08/30 17:31:02.971679 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://sp.auth.adobe.com/adobe-services/oauth2
2023/08/30 17:31:04.253102 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://sp.auth.adobe.com/adobe-services/completePassiveAuthentication
2023/08/30 17:31:04.253153 [TVE] action=authed
2023/08/30 17:31:04.253174 [TVE] action=wait_for_page done=true reason=auth_finished
2023/08/30 17:31:04.258181 [TVE] action=cookies num_domains=4 num_cookies=28
2023/08/30 17:31:04.266079 [TVE] action=error_response type=Document error=net::ERR_ABORTED url=https://sp.auth.adobe.com/adobe-services/completePassiveAuthentication ip=44.239.120.244
2023/08/30 17:48:52.135126 [ERR] Failed to start stream for ch6777: TVE: Could not fetch playlist: livestream.pbskids.org: get https://livestream.pbskids.org/out/v1/1e3d77b418ad4a819b3f4c80ac0373b5/est.m3u8: 403 Forbidden
2023/08/30 17:48:52.164262 [HLS] Couldn't generate stream playlist for ch6777-dANY-ip172.18.0.1: TVE: Could not fetch playlist: livestream.pbskids.org: get https://livestream.pbskids.org/out/v1/1e3d77b418ad4a819b3f4c80ac0373b5/est.m3u8: 403 Forbidden
2023/08/30 17:48:52.164935 [HLS] Stopping transcoder session ch6777-dANY-ip172.18.0.1

[chDVRuser]

Is it now MPEG-DASH-DRM?
MS PlayReady OR Widevine

[speedingcheetah]

I getting the same here 403 Forbidden

On their site, They seem to be running a 30 sec add of some sort. Then the live stream loads and plays of the channel. in Firefox. Does not work in Chrome. just Spinning circle.

[spud]

It is working in New Orleans

[dschaper]

@spud

It is working in New Orleans

OTA or TVE?

[boukmandutty]

I am using YouTube tv. Anyone with the same issue using hulu or anything else?

[racameron]

DVR Pre-Release Notes

v2023.08.31.0621 • UPDATE: PBS Kids disabled because it is no longer working

[boukmandutty]

Another one bites the dust!

Another One Bites The Dust (Remastered 2011)

[Matthew_Crommert]

Son of a ….

[babsonnexus]

As of the 2026-03-11 version of @miibeez's "VLC Bridge PBS" Docker, PBS Kids is working and available!

PBS Feeds

It is working for me now, too! Additionally, there are new stations in the feed including PBS Kids, Create, NHK World, and World. While all PBS Stations I tested worked, as did PBS Kids, the latter three additional stations did not. I opened a ticked to see if they can be updated to work: Just a heads up that the station ID's changed again, so you'll have to reassign them as new in either PLM or Channels, depending upon how you have it set up.