race-control-tv VS f1viewer

Hi, there is a third party Android/Fire TV client called F1 TV Viewer. It would be great if you could support this app. https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv

For me the official app works quite well when sideloaded but if you can't get it working I recommend this third party app https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv

You have to sideload it, but this third party client exists: https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv

I have both the official F1TV App and https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv on a FireTV Stick "Lite" and a "Google Chromecast with Google TV". I probably sideloaded both of them (via adb). Haven't used them since last season, but they were working back then.

There's one for Android TV, but none to run on your phone or tablet that I know of

This started happening on Android when they enabled DRM on the streams. Assuming you use a device with Android 12 or later, you can just use Race Control TV to fix the issue. With Android 11 or earlier, Race Control TV also stutters due to this issue, which can be fixed by a custom build of the the app and force-enabling the fix mentioned in the issue.

Other apps, such as https://github.com/NoahFetz/F1AppleTV, or https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv, have both been able to add DRM support with relatively minimal effort, since this was offered out-of-the-box on those platforms.

https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv (for Android TV, with DRM support)

Though, there are already other Android (TV) 3rd-party apps out there (https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv), and people could probably build on top of them. I'm happy to assist/share information about anything!

Both - before the widevine DRM was introduced last year the live stream through f1viewer also had the higher bitrate. They're using different CDN depending on the endpoint used to access the API one with lower bitrate and other one with a higher.

F1 viewer is the big one i think

Download on your PC (f1viewer is multiplatform if you're a linux or macos user) and copy the video to your phone - i haven't seen any mobile apps that support downloading yet.

https://github.com/SoMuchForSubtlety/f1viewer (desktop, CLI-based, without DRM support, not actively developed)

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.

f1viewer is not f1mv :)

I just discovered https://github.com/SoMuchForSubtlety/f1viewer but I haven't used it yet. Does anyone here recommend this tool? If not, do you have any suggestions?

Also, I will use f1-viewer, this is a trusted application for the login. You can read their documentation.

Race Control or F1Viewer