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Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by jordemort on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:28AM (#34982123)
It's not too difficult to figure out how to get Pluto's API to cough up the stream URLs, if you're the kind of person that knows how to use the developer tools in your browser. You can do similar things with Stirr and Tubi. Roku and Samsung also don't bother to encrypt their streams, but I don't think they have websites where you can watch them, so you'd have to tear apart one of their apps or get their list of channels from someone else.
Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by koolba on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @10:03AM (#34983135)
Is this as easy as grepping the apk file for the app?
Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by mikeryan on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @10:10AM (#34983202)
Just watch network traffic for m3u8 files. The actual URL is likely pulled in from a config when the app starts.