Pluto TV IPTV integration.

[Cheap Potato]

Recently I found PlutoIPTV-master project on GitHub which generates epg.xml and playlist.m3u8 for Pluto IPTV, after installing Node.js

The channel list and the epg were read successfully by NPVR but unfortunately, when playing a channel, things start going haywire once  an advert starts. Just wondering if anyone has had better luck integrating Pluto TV into NPVR.

[sub]

Post the logs and we'll take a look.

[mvallevand]

You would need to create a UpdateEPG script that uses the log to create the EPG from the perl script. Given that the m3u are also generated by the script, if they are not static you might have a lot of difficulty setting this up. There is another tuner model called an EXTRA device that deals with dynamic m3u but you would be responsible for creating that. Perhaps use the script to create the initial m3u and see how stable the links are.

As sub says let us the see the logs and we can see what might be happening during the advertisements. One of the PlutoTV URL parameters I have seen is ?serverSideAds=true which may be a cause of an issue.

IMO the Pluto content with short guide don't make this a very useful feature for NextPVR. There is also no guarantee that it will continue to work so the risk reward just isn't there for me to get involved.

Martin

[sgilani]

I looked into this a few weeks back, and saw the same thing with ads making it go nuts. This wasn't just on NextPVR though--I saw the same behavior on ffplay with some strange errors about discontinuity or something like that. I tried making an extras file and piping the link through ffmpeg to generate an mpegts stream, but it was the same behavior.

There's a Pluto addon for Kodi, so maybe looking at the source there could yield something useful. Just never got around to it on my end.

[Cheap Potato]

Logs:

[sub]

If you try downloading one of the m3u8 files in your browser, does it show EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY in the text?

[sgilani]

If you try downloading one of the m3u8 files in your browser, does it show EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY in the text?

Nope, here's one I just grabbed with wget:

Code:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="English",DEFAULT=NO,FORCED=NO,URI="subtitle/en/playlist.m3u8?terminate=false&deviceId=962f1350-e81b-11ea-8f21-49e0dfcc9a3e&deviceVersion=unknown&appVersion=unknown&deviceType=web&deviceMake=Chrome&sid=5b1def4e-e436-4592-a128-cb270754596b&advertisingId=&deviceLat=0&deviceLon=0&deviceDNT=0&deviceModel=web&userId=&embedPartner=&appName=web&serverSideAds=true&architecture=&paln=&includeExtendedEvents=false",LANGUAGE="en"
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=997452,SUBTITLES="subs"
997452/playlist.m3u8?terminate=false&deviceId=962f1350-e81b-11ea-8f21-49e0dfcc9a3e&deviceVersion=unknown&appVersion=unknown&deviceType=web&deviceMake=Chrome&sid=5b1def4e-e436-4592-a128-cb270754596b&advertisingId=&deviceLat=0&deviceLon=0&deviceDNT=0&deviceModel=web&userId=&embedPartner=&appName=web&serverSideAds=true&architecture=&paln=&includeExtendedEvents=false
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1539795,SUBTITLES="subs"
1539795/playlist.m3u8?terminate=false&deviceId=962f1350-e81b-11ea-8f21-49e0dfcc9a3e&deviceVersion=unknown&appVersion=unknown&deviceType=web&deviceMake=Chrome&sid=5b1def4e-e436-4592-a128-cb270754596b&advertisingId=&deviceLat=0&deviceLon=0&deviceDNT=0&deviceModel=web&userId=&embedPartner=&appName=web&serverSideAds=true&architecture=&paln=&includeExtendedEvents=false
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=2142297,SUBTITLES="subs"
2142297/playlist.m3u8?terminate=false&deviceId=962f1350-e81b-11ea-8f21-49e0dfcc9a3e&deviceVersion=unknown&appVersion=unknown&deviceType=web&deviceMake=Chrome&sid=5b1def4e-e436-4592-a128-cb270754596b&advertisingId=&deviceLat=0&deviceLon=0&deviceDNT=0&deviceModel=web&userId=&embedPartner=&appName=web&serverSideAds=true&architecture=&paln=&includeExtendedEvents=false
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=3063648,SUBTITLES="subs"
3063648/playlist.m3u8?terminate=false&deviceId=962f1350-e81b-11ea-8f21-49e0dfcc9a3e&deviceVersion=unknown&appVersion=unknown&deviceType=web&deviceMake=Chrome&sid=5b1def4e-e436-4592-a128-cb270754596b&advertisingId=&deviceLat=0&deviceLon=0&deviceDNT=0&deviceModel=web&userId=&embedPartner=&appName=web&serverSideAds=true&architecture=&paln=&includeExtendedEvents=false
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=572723,SUBTITLES="subs"
572723/playlist.m3u8?terminate=false&deviceId=962f1350-e81b-11ea-8f21-49e0dfcc9a3e&deviceVersion=unknown&appVersion=unknown&deviceType=web&deviceMake=Chrome&sid=5b1def4e-e436-4592-a128-cb270754596b&advertisingId=&deviceLat=0&deviceLon=0&deviceDNT=0&deviceModel=web&userId=&embedPartner=&appName=web&serverSideAds=true&architecture=&paln=&includeExtendedEvents=false

[sub]

If you updating the m3u8 url to use one of those child m3u8 urls, what does it return?

[mvallevand]

I tried various Pluto urls with ffplay and NextPVR and see the same hangs on advertisements.

Martin

[sgilani]

If you updating the m3u8 url to use one of those child m3u8 urls, what does it return?

aha! EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY

Code:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:5
#EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY-SEQUENCE:1
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:23
#EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME:2020-08-29T03:01:00.000Z
#EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128,URI="http://siloh-l3.plutotv.net/c22ab6_CBS_TV/clip/5f07a6ccc631ea001a719408_Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation_COMING_OF_AGE_S01E119/720p/20200709_194146/hls/0-134779/hls_600_keyfile_2.key",IV=0x0000000000000000000000000000000d
#EXTINF:5,
http://siloh-l3.plutotv.net/c22ab6_CBS_TV/clip/5f07a6ccc631ea001a719408_Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation_COMING_OF_AGE_S01E119/720p/20200709_194146/hls/0-134779/hls_600-00012.ts
#EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128,URI="http://siloh-l3.plutotv.net/c22ab6_CBS_TV/clip/5f07a6ccc631ea001a719408_Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation_COMING_OF_AGE_S01E119/720p/20200709_194146/hls/0-134779/hls_600_keyfile_2.key",IV=0x0000000000000000000000000000000e
#EXTINF:5,
http://siloh-l3.plutotv.net/c22ab6_CBS_TV/clip/5f07a6ccc631ea001a719408_Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation_COMING_OF_AGE_S01E119/720p/20200709_194146/hls/0-134779/hls_600-00013.ts
#EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128,URI="http://siloh-l3.plutotv.net/c22ab6_CBS_TV/clip/5f07a6ccc631ea001a719408_Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation_COMING_OF_AGE_S01E119/720p/20200709_194146/hls/0-134779/hls_600_keyfile_2.key",IV=0x0000000000000000000000000000000f
#EXTINF:5,
http://siloh-l3.plutotv.net/c22ab6_CBS_TV/clip/5f07a6ccc631ea001a719408_Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation_COMING_OF_AGE_S01E119/720p/20200709_194146/hls/0-134779/hls_600-00014.ts
#EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128,URI="http://siloh-l3.plutotv.net/c22ab6_CBS_TV/clip/5f07a6ccc631ea001a719408_Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation_COMING_OF_AGE_S01E119/720p/20200709_194146/hls/0-134779/hls_600_keyfile_2.key",IV=0x00000000000000000000000000000010
#EXTINF:5,
http://siloh-l3.plutotv.net/c22ab6_CBS_TV/clip/5f07a6ccc631ea001a719408_Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation_COMING_OF_AGE_S01E119/720p/20200709_194146/hls/0-134779/hls_600-00015.ts
#EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128,URI="http://siloh-l3.plutotv.net/c22ab6_CBS_TV/clip/5f07a6ccc631ea001a719408_Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation_COMING_OF_AGE_S01E119/720p/20200709_194146/hls/0-134779/hls_600_keyfile_2.key",IV=0x00000000000000000000000000000011
#EXTINF:5,
http://siloh-l3.plutotv.net/c22ab6_CBS_TV/clip/5f07a6ccc631ea001a719408_Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation_COMING_OF_AGE_S01E119/720p/20200709_194146/hls/0-134779/hls_600-00016.ts
#PLUTO-SESSION-ID:5b1def4e-e436-4592-a128-cb270754596b
#PLUTO-VERSION:2.39.0-production-stitcher-green