You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this piracy

Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by Double_a_92 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @07:35AM (#34981664)

The thing with the ads doesn't happen for me though. Between the episodes on PlutoTV the browser / app would serve individual ads. But the video stream itself only has some synthwave style PlutoTV logo playing during that time.

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Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by jccalhoun on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:58AM (#34982434)

It depends on the "channel" and the time. I get the logo playing a lot watching through the official app on my tv.

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Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by duskwuff on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @02:19PM (#34986951)

The logo is probably a backfill for when Pluto fails to select an ad to run.

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Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by mikeryan on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @10:13AM (#34983231)

This is the complaint from Plutos perspective. They are likely using client side ad insertion to serve targeted ads. There’s a separate VAST ad manifest which likely goes with the m3u8 url that has all the ad load and beacon data.

This doesn’t happen in an alternative client.

Note they could also be doing server side ads which replaces the individual video segments but there’s limitations there. Most streamers are still focused on client side ad insertion

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