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I get Comedy Central in Channels DVR from DirecTV now

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When adding a custom channel, make sure “EXTM3U” is in it.

Also, nothing on the internet appears to say how to use it with DirecTV. I was using the wrong URL, and not giving it the channel name. Works with whatever cc4c I have. See some other post on here for my Podman container file.

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="DCOMEDY" tvc-guide-stationid="10149",Comedy Central
chrome://xxxx:5589/stream?url=http://stream.directv.com/guide&ch=Comedy%20Central

You may need to change the stationid though. You can possibly find it if you go to https://xxx:8089/dvr/guide/stations. That’s how I found it, the zap whatever site, just redirects to some other site now.

I figured it out, by looking at main.js for the Chrome for Channels thing. I was trying to figure out how to open a bookmark for a macro with some extension, then I found that, no macro needed for DirecTV.

And VLC doesn’t work in Debian for some unknown reason, I guess it’s broken. Oddly the Flatpak works. Makes no sense to me. They should update their package, or provide instructions on making it work.

But search engines are useless if you use LibreWolf, as search engines need to track and profile you, to work apparently.

Now to compile VLC, since apparently there’s no newer deb by anybody else, and I’m not spending eternity looking for one.

Also, no kernel options needed to prevent some AMDGPU bug I was getting with mostly hardware video decoding. Just update firmware-amd-graphics. Forgot what else I upgraded, maybe some mesa-va-drivers or something.

sudo apt install -t trixie-backports firmware-amd-graphics

Also, those kernel options, didn’t even fix it, as mpv would cause the issue with hardware encoding enabled, but after updating some stuff, it works fine now. So if hardware decoding works in mpv, it’s a VLC problem.

A much easier option, would be to use a rolling distro, like openSUSE or Arch Linux.

The VLC from Deb Multimedia doesn’t work either.

Just compile 3.0.22-rc2 and hope for the best.

Well, VLC might not be broke, one of it’s dependencies might be though.

Just realized, it’s still using the wrong VLC. And I installed over the other one, so probably why it doesn’t work.

If you remove all VLC packages, it wants to remove KDE stuff too. No idea why.

If you break VLC, you can run sudo apt install –reinstall vlc to bring the broken version back. Apparently KDE requires it.

I ran make uninstall for the one I compiled, just ran ./vlc “url” and it still seg faults.

And bin/vlc-static, doesn’t work either.

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