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Re: Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS

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Post by rockostrich »

kstrauser wrote: post #13

I love it. I’m willing to pay for streaming sports services, to a point, but all of them are freaking insane. For example, my wife and I like watching baseball. So let’s do the right thing and pay for it, right? LOL, as if that were possible. For $120[0] we can watch the Giants games, or for $220, all games… but subject to blackout. For $120, we can’t actually watch home games. We’d have to pay for a separate streami…

The NBA is similarly annoying. It's $110 for the season to watch all non-blacked out games. As a Knicks fan, it was great when I was living in Philly because I could watch all Knicks games unless they were nationally broadcast or if they were playing the Sixers. Now that I live in NJ I'm technically in the NY broadcast region. The only way for me to watch local games legally is to have MSG through a cable provider or pay for Gotham Sports Plus which is $35/month.

Re: Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS

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Post by rockostrich »

theappsecguy wrote: post #8
dchuk wrote: post #6

Very cool. I’ve used a paid service for years now that gets me all sorts of sports and channels very reliably, I would assume they’re doing something similar to make this work. Might try this though with my home server setup. Think it could be ran from within a docker container so I could add it to an existing docker compose media server setup?

any chance you'd be willing to share what the service is? I use streameast all the time but it's not reliable enough

You will want to search for IPTV services. It's a bit of a wild west out there but I'd recommend finding one that has a Discord. Most will offer a free trial for 24 hours or a week for you to try them out.

Re: Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS

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Post by wombat-man »

kstrauser wrote: post #26
wombat-man wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure which streaming apps you're referring to. If you only care about the local team, getting a TV streaming option like Youtube TV, sling or hulu tv should work. Probably some I'm not thinking of. As long as they get the main networks, that should cover it. Even when they do a Prime exclusive or MNF(espn) game, they'll show it on the local affiliate for local markets. At least that's the way it has always worked…

NFL is egregiously bad here. They split exclusives among multiple streaming services, so you need to subscribe to (IIRC) at least Netflix and Amazon Prime in addition to your TV service if you want to see everything.

It depends on how much you want to just follow a single team or of you are just trying to catch any given primetime game. I mean I'm fine missing them of my team isn't in it.

If you're following the local team and don't mind missing the others, NFL is pretty solid actually.

Re: Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS

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Post by dchuk »

theappsecguy wrote: post #8
dchuk wrote: post #6

Very cool. I’ve used a paid service for years now that gets me all sorts of sports and channels very reliably, I would assume they’re doing something similar to make this work. Might try this though with my home server setup. Think it could be ran from within a docker container so I could add it to an existing docker compose media server setup?

any chance you'd be willing to share what the service is? I use streameast all the time but it's not reliable enough

It's one of those sites where they don't really like to be advertised, but if you really like *seasons* that are just *4* *u*, try adding a .com

Re: Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS

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Post by the_real_cher »

theappsecguy wrote: post #8
dchuk wrote: post #6

Very cool. I’ve used a paid service for years now that gets me all sorts of sports and channels very reliably, I would assume they’re doing something similar to make this work. Might try this though with my home server setup. Think it could be ran from within a docker container so I could add it to an existing docker compose media server setup?

any chance you'd be willing to share what the service is? I use streameast all the time but it's not reliable enough

google 'free media heck yeah' and follow the rabbit hole.

Re: Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS

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Post by seanosaur »

kstrauser wrote: post #13

I love it. I’m willing to pay for streaming sports services, to a point, but all of them are freaking insane. For example, my wife and I like watching baseball. So let’s do the right thing and pay for it, right? LOL, as if that were possible. For $120[0] we can watch the Giants games, or for $220, all games… but subject to blackout. For $120, we can’t actually watch home games. We’d have to pay for a separate streami…

MLS is the only one that has a good system at this point. Say what you will about Apple TV but the "all games, no blackouts" setup is pretty sweet. I truly hope other leagues take note and find a way to copy this.

Re: Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS

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Post by hybirdss »

Smart approach to the header problem. I hit something similar building a Netflix episode resolver — the data is all there in the HTML but you need the right headers or you get nothing. Ended up just wrapping curl with the right User-Agent and it worked without needing a full browser.

The auto-learned Referer per upstream host is a nice touch. How often do the upstream sources change their header requirements on you?

Re: Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS

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Post by chatmasta »

the_real_cher wrote: post #35
theappsecguy wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

any chance you'd be willing to share what the service is? I use streameast all the time but it's not reliable enough

google 'free media heck yeah' and follow the rabbit hole.

This is the only evergreen bookmark that will always have the most up-to-date sources.

You can also find some interesting tools and scripts if you search some of the streaming domain names with GitHub code search.

Re: Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS

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Post by tmtvl »

kstrauser wrote: post #13

I love it. I’m willing to pay for streaming sports services, to a point, but all of them are freaking insane. For example, my wife and I like watching baseball. So let’s do the right thing and pay for it, right? LOL, as if that were possible. For $120[0] we can watch the Giants games, or for $220, all games… but subject to blackout. For $120, we can’t actually watch home games. We’d have to pay for a separate streami…

For rally I can pay 120 EUR for a year and watch all the WRC and ERC content I want. Formula E, on the other hand, is a pain in the neck.

It's weird how some sports have it figured out and others don't.

Re: Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS

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Post by kstrauser »

seanosaur wrote: post #36
kstrauser wrote: post #13

I love it. I’m willing to pay for streaming sports services, to a point, but all of them are freaking insane. For example, my wife and I like watching baseball. So let’s do the right thing and pay for it, right? LOL, as if that were possible. For $120[0] we can watch the Giants games, or for $220, all games… but subject to blackout. For $120, we can’t actually watch home games. We’d have to pay for a separate streami…

MLS is the only one that has a good system at this point. Say what you will about Apple TV but the "all games, no blackouts" setup is pretty sweet. I truly hope other leagues take note and find a way to copy this.

I’d be all over that in my favorite sports if it were as easy as MLS makes it.
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