Linux and DStv Stream

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Good Day Guys

Anyone in this group using Linux and DStv stream?

I get a stream limit reached

TIA
 
ahf said:
Good Day Guys

Anyone in this group using Linux and DStv stream?

I get a stream limit reached

TIA
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  • You're going to have to provide more detail than that please.
  • Are you accessing it via the browser?
  • How many devices are making use of this?
  • Are you on a fibre connection/LTE?
  • Does anybody else have the login credentials?
 
Zurg said:
  • You're going to have to provide more detail than that please.
  • Are you accessing it via the browser? yes
  • How many devices are making use of this? two
  • Are you on a fibre connection/LTE? fibre
  • Does anybody else have the login credentials? No
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Check and see how many devices are registered.
 
Zurg said:
Check and see how many devices are registered.
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Only my smart tv is connected to DStv stream.
I signed up for DStv stream in March this year and it worked very well using Linux Mint but as from about 28 Aug 2025 I get the "stream limit reached"
Had a chat with DStv yesterday on Live Chat they reset everything, now I can logon and I'm able to see the channel list but as soon as I click on a specific channel then the limit reached error pop up.
For a test I used my Win11 SSD and it works without a problem, so it seems to be a Linux problem as I did try Ubuntu, Zorin and also three different browsers.
 
If you have registered your Smart TV & Linux Mint on DSTV Stream, then when you used Win 11 on your SSD, it would detect that as an additional device. Try deregistering your Win 11 SSD & ALL of the other OS's & browsers on DSTV Stream & then check if DSTV Stream only shows 2 devices listed on it & if it now works on Linux Mint.
 
HAL 9000 said:
If you have registered your Smart TV & Linux Mint on DSTV Stream, then when you used Win 11 on your SSD, it would detect that as an additional device. Try deregistering your Win 11 SSD & ALL of the other OS's & browsers on DSTV Stream & then check if DSTV Stream only shows 2 devices listed on it & if it now works on Linux Mint.
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Thanks will it a try later.
 
Depending on your computer specs you could just run this in a virtual machine.
Instead of having to chop and change.
 
HAL 9000 said:
If you have registered your Smart TV & Linux Mint on DSTV Stream, then when you used Win 11 on your SSD, it would detect that as an additional device. Try deregistering your Win 11 SSD & ALL of the other OS's & browsers on DSTV Stream & then check if DSTV Stream only shows 2 devices listed on it & if it now works on Linux Mint.
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@HAL 9000 Done that but eish man still getting that error.
@Zurg not familiar with this virtual machine but I will check youtube for some info.
 
I've had the same issue. Can't get DSTV streaming to work on Linux. Browsing channels and movies etc works fine. Trailers also show, but run into Streaming limit reached error when trying to view something.

Last year I tried to get it to work on Arch. Using Chromium and Firefox. Now on Solus, using Chrome also doesn't work.
If I boot Windows on my other hard drive it DSTV stream works fine on Edge and Chrome.

I suspect it's a setting or feature of the browsers which is not enabled or missing on Linux that MultiChoice uses to count the number of devices.
 
slowfriendlyfire said:
I've had the same issue. Can't get DSTV streaming to work on Linux. Browsing channels and movies etc works fine. Trailers also show, but run into Streaming limit reached error when trying to view something.

Last year I tried to get it to work on Arch. Using Chromium and Firefox. Now on Solus, using Chrome also doesn't work.
If I boot Windows on my other hard drive it DSTV stream works fine on Edge and Chrome.

I suspect it's a setting or feature of the browsers which is not enabled or missing on Linux that MultiChoice uses to count the number of devices.
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This is speculative, but might Edge on Linux work?
 
slowfriendlyfire said:
Tried that too now. Doesn't work.
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Just a thought, I'm running Kubuntu and the Firefox that was installed was the Canonical version and wouldn't load any of my plugins. After installing it from Flatpak it worked 100%. Could this or the version downloaded from Mozilla maybe work as theyr'e not locked down versions?
 
It doesn't seem likely to start working anytime soon. Here's my view based on my experience.
Canal+ (and Multichoice before the takeover) seems not to be interested in making their DStv & soon-to-be-discontinued Showmax stream services to be fully compatibe with browsers running Widevine DRM on Linux or Chrome OS Flex. I had converted a few of our Windows 10 laptops to either run Linux (a few different distros) or Chrome OS Flex and then tried different browsers with Widevine DRM enabled and the problem persists. You can open your DStv / Showmax profile, view the different menus, watch trailers, but any attempt to actually stream a movie or a series comes to nought.
Perhaps they see it as there being too few people on their services using Linux or Chrome OS Flex to justify their inhouse devs keeping their streaming service compatible with anything other than Windows, Mac; and of course on Chrome OS (not-the-Flex) laptops their streams can be played in their dedicated apps that are available in the Google App Store.
Running a resource-hogging Virtual Machine in Linux or Chrome OS Flex just to stream a series or a movie is not ideal on older laptops that have been converted from Windows 10 exactly because they didn't have the hardware capability to run Windows 11.
 
ryantheforce said:
It doesn't seem likely to start working anytime soon. Here's my view based on my experience.
Canal+ (and Multichoice before the takeover) seems not to be interested in making their DStv & soon-to-be-discontinued Showmax stream services to be fully compatibe with browsers running Widevine DRM on Linux or Chrome OS Flex. I had converted a few of our Windows 10 laptops to either run Linux (a few different distros) or Chrome OS Flex and then tried different browsers with Widevine DRM enabled and the problem persists. You can open your DStv / Showmax profile, view the different menus, watch trailers, but any attempt to actually stream a movie or a series comes to nought.
Perhaps they see it as there being too few people on their services using Linux or Chrome OS Flex to justify their inhouse devs keeping their streaming service compatible with anything other than Windows, Mac; and of course on Chrome OS (not-the-Flex) laptops their streams can be played in their dedicated apps that are available in the Google App Store.
Running a resource-hogging Virtual Machine in Linux or Chrome OS Flex just to stream a series or a movie is not ideal on older laptops that have been converted from Windows 10 exactly because they didn't have the hardware capability to run Windows 11.
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Have you tried with chrome browser? Not chromium. It seems more DRM friendly.
 
Guys, this was an issue discussed in other threads months ago (TV section) - think in the end it was believed that Linux security dev-ing is behind with the newer DRM "needs".

There was also a more general issue of some sort that the Kodi DStv app dev had, so he put any new, working update on hold for now.
 
Brian_G said:
Guys, this was an issue discussed in other threads months ago (TV section) - think in the end it was believed that Linux security dev-ing is behind with the newer DRM "needs".

There was also a more general issue of some sort that the Kodi DStv app dev had, so he put any new, working update on hold for now.
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Yeah drm and Linux don't go together
 
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