Hi, I've been collecting free US local NEWS streams from across the US, am about 430 channels now(not even half lol). I usually don't have a trouble fetching the m3u url in inspect/network, sometimes I need to find it in the webpage source code if its hosted at AWS, if I see aws in the url. But Livestream is easiest, just 2 strings of numbers i need to add to a shorter m3u url.
Anyways theres one kind of stream I'm having massive problem with and its streams from https:// dcs-live.apis.anvato. net, they seem to update every day or hour and impossible to add to a playlist. theres bunch of US channels that use these streams. There has to be somewhere a master.m3u or a workaround.
The other thing I can fetch are .ts chunks but they are useless unless I know how to splice them together again.
~80% of the channels I have are free on their website but only show newsbits and live events, thats basically what Im after.
Any one here who knows a workaround around the DCS Anvato streams?
Fox44 has one for example (need VPN if not in US) https://www.centexproud.com/livestream/
Here's ABC 9 but VPN not needed https://www.wsoctv.com/live-stream
Both those streams are examples of the DCS stream that expire and becomes useless in a Pastebin.
For those wondering I'm just collecting all the ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX original and affiliates. And some awful bastards that seem to be both NBC and ABC or CBS and FOX, weird combos out there, I guess small towns.
I keep my list in a Pastebin with out a trouble, except the DCS streams. I also take great care that the logos are correct and work on dark background. Sometimes I need to redraw then. I guess most of the work goes in the logos. I wish IPTV providers would put some love in the logos who are usually wrong or missing.
If posts like this are not allowed I understand. Please help me :) I'll share the list with you.
Cool project. Can you please share your pastebin?