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Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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> I built it because I couldn't cast web video from my laptop to my TV: no Chromecast, no AirPlay. Looks like Claude built it.

Claude helped me out for sure, i'm not a DLNA or FFMPEG beast, but i solved a problem I had and that's what matters. If it solved a problem you have, even better.

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Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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> I built it because I couldn't cast web video from my laptop to my TV: no Chromecast, no AirPlay. Looks like Claude built it.

Claude helped me out for sure, i'm not a DLNA or FFMPEG beast, but i solved a problem I had and that's what matters. If it solved a problem you have, even better.

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Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Do I need to bring my own sources or is there a maintained list?

it comes preconfigured with three different illegal pirate sites.

Looks like they removed now, and changed some language in Readme: https://github.com/stupside/castor/commit/692b2f18b8f6e99c32...

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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I work with browser fingerprinting, so I took a look at the repo to see what it actually does. From what I can tell, it only patches navigator, the Audio API, and the Canvas API. That is pretty basic, so it will likely get flagged easily.

Depends what you're trying to bypass. Cloudflare isn't as strict as Google.

depends on what you're trying to bypass in Cloudflare, turnstile or interstitial ?

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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it comes preconfigured with three different illegal pirate sites.

Looks like they removed now, and changed some language in Readme: https://github.com/stupside/castor/commit/692b2f18b8f6e99c32...

Lol. I wonder how that will hold up in court. "Your Honor, Castor is not designed for piracy" "Then why did the last version automatically access three pirate sites?"

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels. https://tvexplorer.live

That is an unbelievably slick thing that you've got there. It feels very light-weight, it's approximately instantly-responsive. Back button works. I don't understand the stats (or my contribution to them), but whatever. (the closed-captioning pop-up causes some overlay issues for me, though) moar edit: Upon further review with my very not-special desktop box, I'm reasonably confident that this is the quickest, most-r…

> Back button works

Maybe a little too well... I tried a whole bunch of channels to get an idea of which ones work, and my history was too full to get out of the site. Maybe every channel change doesn't need to push to your history list.

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Did the app work?

While I think responsible use of AI coding tools is possible, "working" is a low bar for software. Does it accomplish the intended function securely, performantly, with reasonable error handling?

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels. https://tvexplorer.live

This is amazing! Can this be self hosted?

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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That is an unbelievably slick thing that you've got there. It feels very light-weight, it's approximately instantly-responsive. Back button works. I don't understand the stats (or my contribution to them), but whatever. (the closed-captioning pop-up causes some overlay issues for me, though) moar edit: Upon further review with my very not-special desktop box, I'm reasonably confident that this is the quickest, most-r…

> Back button works Maybe a little too well... I tried a whole bunch of channels to get an idea of which ones work, and my history was too full to get out of the site. Maybe every channel change doesn't need to push to your history list.

Generally filling up the buffer is fine. It's perfectly normal that after viewing a certain number of documents one has to manually decide where to go.

You know what you need. A button that goes back but instead of going to the prior document goes to the first document with a different domain than the current one.

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