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[snowpeck]

Can someone explain a little better how to get it on Roku? I'm having a little trouble.

[clemon79]

Can someone explain a little better how to get it on Roku? I'm having a little trouble.

It's a bit of a pain, but I'll try to break it down:

• Make a ChannelPear account.
• Add the stream to your library. From the "Pair" meny, select Roku to get your playlist URL. Keep this handy.
• Install this private channel to your Roku.
• Make a playlist using the URL you noted in step 2

There you go. Then add your BUZZR stream to Favorites and save yourself some navigation steps in the future. (There is also a ChannelPear plugin you can add to Plex if you use that but that setup is slightly more advanced math. The above seems to be the path of least resistance, for now.)

[snowpeck]

The problem I'm having is that the stream won't play in ChannelPear. I had the Plex setup done but when I get there it says the stream is invalid.

[clemon79]

Okay, here's what I did in CP:

1) From the Library: Add > Media
2) URL is the URL to the M3U8. If you are using Nick's, it's https://www.nicholastodor.com/buzzr/live.m3u8.
3) The other items (name, logo, etc) are whatever you want them to be.

[Casey Buck]

I know this is pretty nitpicky, but I wish they streamed at 60 FPS, so that the shows would have the motion from the 480i videotape accurately shown. There is a workaround with SmoothVideo Project, though it's the PC equivalent of the motion interpolation feature of modern TVs, which causes some artifacting.

For that matter, Youtube clips have the same problem, unless you deinterlace your capture so that each field is a separate frame (instead of blended together), and you upconvert it to 720P or higher.

[clemon79]

I know this is pretty nitpicky, but I wish they streamed at 60 FPS, so that the shows would have the motion from the 480i videotape accurately shown.

Well, suddenly I don't feel as bad for whining about aspect ratio.

[snowpeck]

Never got the Plex method to work, but I did get it to work through the private Roku playlist channel. Thanks!

[clemon79]

Never got the Plex method to work, but I did get it to work through the private Roku playlist channel. Thanks!

Good deal. I ended up fixing up an .m3u file to host on my web space (along with a local copy of Nick's .m3u8; the former needs to be able to point to the latter) that I could use the Plex IPTV plugin to point to, removing CP from the equation entirely. Works well but was mostly a proof-of-concept thing. (Although if I could figure out how to whip up a basic .html file that then embeds the m3u in an HTML5 player, that would also be extremely useful. Hmm.)

[WhammyPower]

(Although if I could figure out how to whip up a basic .html file that then embeds the m3u in an HTML5 player, that would also be extremely useful. Hmm.)

Again, already done.

[clemon79]

Yeah, I was trying to do it without the .js 'cuz I don't understand it, but I guess there's no way around that in Chrome. Bah.

How would I munge your code to autoplay?

[PPatters]

Are others not getting any sound from the feed or is it just me? I tried on different browsers and computers, but I thought I’d check with others anyway just in case I’m as crazy as I feel lol

[snowpeck]

Are others not getting any sound from the feed or is it just me? I tried on different browsers and computers, but I thought I’d check with others anyway just in case I’m as crazy as I feel lol

The sound is fine for me.

[PPatters]

The sound is fine for me.

It seems to work for me too! So either I was crazy or it got fixed lol

[aaron sica]

The sound is fine for me.

It seems to work for me too! So either I was crazy or it got fixed lol

No, I think there was an issue for a little bit. I tried tuning in around 11:20 to find no sound.

[clemon79]

Discovered this morning that Buzzr switched up their feed, fixing the aspect ratio problem. Here's the new working m3u8.

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=3450000,RESOLUTION=960x720,CODECS="avc1.4d001f,mp4a.40.2"
https://buzzr-zixi.global.ssl.fastly.net/BUZZR_HLS/BUZZR_SRC_primary-BUZZR_PLUTO_2400-Bj7tPpcpTV.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=2350000,RESOLUTION=960x720,CODECS="avc1.4d001f,mp4a.40.2"
https://buzzr-zixi.global.ssl.fastly.net/BUZZR_HLS/BUZZR_SRC_primary-BUZZR_PLUTO_1500-Bj7tPjfPSV.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1450000,RESOLUTION=640x480,CODECS="avc1.4d001e,mp4a.40.2"
https://buzzr-zixi.global.ssl.fastly.net/BUZZR_HLS/BUZZR_SRC_primary-BUZZR_PLUTO_0750-Bj7tP2hQIV.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1000000,RESOLUTION=320x240,CODECS="avc1.4d000d,mp4a.40.2"
https://buzzr-zixi.global.ssl.fastly.net/BUZZR_HLS/BUZZR_SRC_primary-BUZZR_PLUTO_0375-Bj7tP5i7HV.m3u8

(To save bandwidth, you can just chop out those top two feeds.)