Pluto TV is no longer available on this device.

[PeglegTV]

Pluto TV channels are no longer working with NextPVR, all channels are now displaying two messages in loop in multiple languages.

Pluto TV is no longer available on this device.

Go to pluto.tv/where-to-watch
to learn where to watch us next.

looking at my recordings, it looks like the error started after 2/25/26 in the AM as my last show that recorded was over at 11:00 AM that day.

from what I've seen it looks like Pluto TV now requires an account to use it this way.

is there anywhere to enter user credentials that I'm missing?

[mvallevand]

If you are talking about my long abandoned Extra there is no support. I guess it is possible to get the credentials since an Extra can do everything a browser can but that is up to a user.

Martin

[PeglegTV]

If you are talking about my long abandoned Extra there is no support.  I guess it is possible to get the credentials since an Extra can do everything a browser can but that is up to a user.

Martin

Oh, I didn't realize that it was abandoned, it worked well until last week.

I wouldn't know where to start with modifying the Pluto TV files.  Thank you for all your hard work and for replying

[Prsa01]

Maybe a dead issue at this point, but, I'll be looking for a solution and will share if found. Expecting, at a minimum, channels will need to be deleted and reimported.

How were you able to watch/record pluto? I did much experimenting with ffmpeg and the stream always would hang on commercials. I could watch between commercials (mostly) fine.

Update: possible answer(s) here. I have not yet tried to implement any of these.

https://community.getchannels.com/t/plut...ce/45844/4

[PeglegTV]

How were you able to watch/record pluto? I did much experimenting with ffmpeg and the stream always would hang on commercials. I could watch between commercials (mostly) fine.

I only recorded shows, I used ffmpeg to detect the black screens, remove them, then copy the file to its folder. I remember it took me a while to find the right cmd's with ffmpeg to have it drop the commercials off.


I wouldn't know how to port a Channels dvr build to NextPVR.

If I find anything I'll make sure to update this thread

[PeglegTV]

I tested out the first option listed in the link you provided and was able to get PlutoTV live added and playing in NextPVR I'm currently testing a recording now but it's a 3 hour show so I won't know for a couple of hours how to handle the recording... (I hope I don't have to update my processing commands as I built them a few years ago )

1.) create a free account with Pluto TV,
2.) add the "Pluto TV for Channels" docker (watch the port number, the docker run has it set to 8080, I changed mine to 8192)
3.) go to pluto TV for Channels - http://dockerIP:8192/
4.) right click the tuner you want to use and select copy link address
5.) go to NextPVR in a new tab
6.) click Settings > Devices > IPTV Devices > Import Using M3U
7.) paste the tuner link were it says "m3u url (required)"
8.) go back to Pluto TV for Channels and click Copy EPG URL
9.) go back to NextPVR and paste the EPG url were it says "guide xmltv url (optional)" > Click Import
10.) Verify the channel list and click save.

[Prsa01]

I tested out the first option listed in the link you provided and was able to get PlutoTV live added and playing in NextPVR I'm currently testing a recording now but it's a 3 hour show so I won't know for a couple of hours how to handle the recording... (I hope I don't have to update my processing commands as I built them a few years ago )

1.) create a free account with Pluto TV,
2.) add the "Pluto TV for Channels" docker (watch the port number, the docker run has it set to 8080, I changed mine to 8192)
3.) go to pluto TV for Channels - http://dockerIP:8192/
4.) right click the tuner you want to use and select copy link address
5.) go to NextPVR in a new tab
6.) click Settings > Devices > IPTV Devices > Import Using M3U
7.) paste the tuner link were it says "m3u url (required)"
8.) go back to Pluto TV for Channels and click Copy EPG URL
9.) go back to NextPVR and paste the EPG url were it says "guide xmltv url (optional)" > Click Import
10.) Verify the channel list and click save.

Great, thanks. So you are using docker? In the short look I gave it, I thought you could either do docker or just an exe. 

If you could post your ffmpeg command it would be appreciated. It sounds like you are running ffmpeg as a separate, post-recording step, correct?  I've been trying it on the stream in the streamline bat the pluto Xtra calls without success. 

So you did delete your pluto channels and recreate them using the steps you listed. 

Will give this a try later and report results .

[PeglegTV]

Great, thanks. So you are using docker? In the short look I gave it, I thought you could either do docker or just an exe.

I went with docker as I run several docker containers so spinning it up was quick, I only tried the docker version so hopefully the exe version will offer the same method - creating the M3U files and EPG File

So you did delete your pluto channels and recreate them using the steps you listed. 

Yes I did, I didn't think to mention it as I deleted them earlier today.

If you could post your ffmpeg command it would be appreciated. It sounds like you are running ffmpeg as a separate, post-recording step, correct?  I've been trying it on the stream in the streamline bat the pluto Xtra calls without success.

I'll do my best to help with the commands, I use a program called Voxcommando, and that connects to Kodi so my finished recording trigger isn't coming directly from NextPVR.
and my post processing is being done in Voxcommando so you would have to build most of the prost processing script on your own, but I can give you the commands that use FFmpeg incase they help you 


1.) Delete PVR.txt (created by step 2)
2.) replace path/to/recorded/file.ts with the recorded file path and name.ext

Code:

ffmpeg -i  "path/to/recorded/file.ts"  -ss 00:00:00 -to 00:15:00 -vf "blackdetect=d=0.05:pix_th=0.10" -an -f null - 2>&1 | findstr black_duration >> PVR.txt

3.) read PVR.txt
4.) Regex:

Code:

black_end:\b([0-9][0-9]?|[1-9][0-9][0-9]?)\b.*?black_duration:\b([1-9][1-9]?)\b

5.)  replace  path/to/recorded/file.ts with the recorded file path and name.ext   -   {Match.{#M}.1} replace with the output of the regex pattern above  -  replace path/to/destination/file.mp4 with the new file path and file name 

Code:

ffmpeg -i  "path/to/recorded/file.ts"  -ss {Match.{#M}.1} -c:v copy -c:a copy -y -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc "path/to/destination/file.mp4"

NOTE: if I remember correctly I had to change the file extension to mp4 as that helped to remove all the commercials, and the blackdetect was used to remove the beginning and end of the episodes 

I know this is probably confusing but voxcommando has a GUI and doesn't directly translate to bash or py

I hope this helps, and doesn't make it more confusing lol

[Prsa01]

What percentage of the time would you say this results in a viewable stream and doesn't miss-identify stream sections and remove elements that are not ads? Ballpark, how many pluto channels have you successfully implemented this on? Any of the various movie or music/concert video channels?

Thanks again!

I plan on implementing this today and will report back.

[PeglegTV]

What percentage of the time would you say this results in a viewable stream and doesn't miss-identify stream sections and remove elements that are not ads? Ballpark, how many pluto channels have you successfully implemented this on? Any of the various movie or music/concert video channels?

Thanks again!

I plan on implementing this today and will report back.

before the Pluto tv change, I was mostly only recording a news channel and just 1-2 shows per day and it was 99.9% effective.

I would have a failed recording maybe once every 3-4 months.

BAD NEWS:
The bad news, none of my test recordings have worked, I had one that claimed it recorded the 3 hour show, but it only contained the first 54 minutes. and then all other test recordings failed with no content - error: 

Code:

[Failed: One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 401 (Unauthorized).)]

and if I try to play any of the pluto tv channels I get a different error:

Code:

No tuner was available for the requested channel.

I wasn't able to tell when this error started occurring, I believe it happed before I tested recording multiple episodes hence why I didn't have any content with those recordings.

I double checked that the docker container was up and running and it is, I had to go to NextPVR > Settings > Devices > Pluto TV Tuner 1 > Update channels > Save and then I could play Pluto TV channels. so I'm not sure if there is a fix to make this useable.

if I watch pluto TV, commercial breaks end the stream (hang, like you described), so that hasn't changed either.