User feedback: every stream on /watch shows ads but the player fails
to load. Three causes, three fixes:
1. CuratedExtractor's two hmembeds 24/7 channels (Sky F1, DAZN F1)
sat at the top of the list and ALWAYS failed: they load the
upstream's ad overlay then JW Player throws error 102630 (empty
playlist; the obfuscated decoder produces no fileURL in our
environment). Disabled the registration in extractors/__init__.py
until/unless we find a working bypass — leaving the existing
`CURATED_BYPASS = {"curated"}` shim in service.py so the swap is
reversible.
2. Pitsport surfaces every WRC stage / MotoGP session as its own
/watch UUID, but they all resolve to the same upstream m3u8 URL
(e.g. RallyTV one master.m3u8 across all 22 Rally de Portugal
stages). Added URL-keyed dedupe in service.run_extraction so the
/streams response shows one row per actual stream.
3. The pitsport category filter was still narrowed to motorsport.
Pitsport.xyz only lists curated sports broadcasts (WRC, MotoGP,
IndyCar, NASCAR, Premier League Darts, Premier League football…),
so the site's own selection is the right filter. Replaced the
hand-maintained MOTORSPORT_KEYWORDS list with `bool(category or
title)` — anything pitsport returns goes through. Streams that
aren't actually live get filtered out downstream when the embed
API returns an empty manifest.
Frontend: hls.js `lowLatencyMode` was on by default but RallyTV (and
most non-LL-HLS providers) don't ship the LL-HLS extensions, which
broke playback in real browsers. Default to `lowLatencyMode: false`.
Result: /streams is now 1 verified live entry (Rally TV WRC stage
currently airing); was 24 with the top 2 always broken + 22 dupes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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