General ‐ Watch

With everything setup, you are free to watch these stations in any downstream consumption program like Channels DVR, VLC, and others. The capture tools provide the necessary playlist link with all the stations to do that integration:

You can also get sub-lists with app-specific stations using the ADBTuner "provider" or Roku Bridge "playlist". Just remember that, no matter the tool, the playlist must have a MPEG-TS stream format assigned to it.

While it's certainly possible to do this integration directly into providers like Channels DVR, it is highly encouraged to use Playlist Manger (a Streaming Library Manger extension). This is because you can stack the same station from various different source playlists (“children”) and only end up with one relevant “parent” copy to play, based on a user-defined priority. That way, if one source goes away or fails, the next will seamlessly slide into place.

Many of these stations are currently available through TVE or FAST providers, and therefore do not need this solution. Nonetheless, that might not be the case any day now, so it pays to have backups already in place and ready to go in such an eventuality. Further, Playlist Manager has other useful features, such as renumbering stations, replacing logos, and much more!