Web Player Alternative for Live TV

[GTFan]

@chDVRuser

It's been working for me, but I prefer the CDVR web player in the browser.
With it, I can see the ad marks, do PIP with the browser, scrub and play at multiple speeds.
Of course, I don't use it for all Live TV and Recordings.

To each his own.

Yeah to each his own but when you're dealing with a basically broken web player versus VLC which works all the time, it's an easy choice. I can't tell you how sick I was of restarting the web player countless times when I was out of town couple of weeks ago. VLC can play at multiple speeds and scrub, and of course you have PIP because you can resize it.

There's not much reason to not use VLC considering the broken state of the web player. I wish I could use it because it's easier but at this point it's not worth it.

[chDVRuser]

When you had issues with using the web player to playback recordings

1. were you using it locally or remote
2. what OS and browser did you have issues with

Appears that Apple systems have no issues, no matter which browser.
My guess is that whatever browser you use on an Apple device uses the Apple internal browser framework, or whatever it's called. And I think this is what the devs have tested it against.

This is why I originally asked for an alternate way to view instead of using the web player.

Allow alternate player app from DVR web UI

Since the DVR web UI player has issues (at least for me) and is only 'kinda supported', is there a chance we can select an alternate player to use, like VLC? see racameron's reply that my browser has issues and it has nothing to do with Channels DVR web UI Player Since the web UI isn't used for viewing recordings, only the browser is? I usually view my recordings from a Windows PC and know others also use a Mac. Although I have the Channels iOS client, I rarely view from an iPod, iPhone or iP…

I'm trying to stay within the Channels DVR experience (eco-system) and help to improve it, instead of using work-arounds or using something else. But sometimes your patience just runs out when you gotta get things done.

[GTFan]

I tried Brave Chrome and Edge on Windows 11 and all of them had the same issue, which makes sense since they're all based on the Chrome engine.

I did not have Firefox installed, and all of this was trying to stream recordings remotely.

I've already switched to VLC so this won't be an issue for me going forward.