RaceControl VS f1tv-dl

If you're using older 3rdparty clients like Race Control or f1viewer, then the stream has double the bitrate than with /r/F1MultiViewer or the official app (both show the video bitrate through debug menu). You can also easily verify this for archived races by downloading the stream segments with your preferred browser and decrypting the non widevine protected video with the key from the m8u3 file.

My dude change the name RC has already been an F1 program https://github.com/robvdpol/RaceControl

Iirc RaceControl allows you to download older races where DRM has been removed.

Or watch on a PC. Some helpful redditor made and shared RaceControl, it's great if you have a large screen or multiple screens. I usually have the broadcast running on my primary screen and telemetry+some driver cams on secondary. It can also sync streams (or at least tries its best).

https://github.com/robvdpol/RaceControl (for Windows, no DRM support yet, but one contributor is working on this)

makes me miss RaceControl, i would fit 6 feeds on my 21:9 screen and perfectly sync them live and for replays too.

Race Control is one of the previously popular 3rdparty clients for f1tv, but like f1viewer, they rely on external players that don't support streaming with widevine DRM.

This ia one of the reasons many people on /r/F1TV suggest /r/F1MultiViewer and previously other 3rdparty viewers like Race Control and F1Viewer, before they introduced DRM to the live streams this year in April.

At some races I feel like things might get interesting I simply use F1 Race Control anyway with F1 TV and just put up the world feed with a bunch of other feeds right next to it. Couple of onboards for example to keep track of some fighting going on.

This may allow you to pull the data from previous and live races https://github.com/thedave42/f1tv-dl and if not, the code may assist you in developing something

If you're familiar with nodejs you can grab this tool and use it to get the tokenized URL for the live HLS playlist. Either just run the tool with the -f ts option and play the ts file from disk or run the tool with the -l debug option and grab the tokenized url to use in something like VLC.

I'm playing with a feature to add the pit lane audio channel to the main stream. So far it seems to be working, but I need to do more testing with Live. https://github.com/thedave42/f1tv-dl/tree/add-pitlane-audio is the branch if anyone wants to give it a try. Use the -p option - and if you choose '-f ts' you can watch the ts file with VLC as it's downloading.