Pluto TV Stopped Working

16coxk

16coxk

So, Pluto TV seems to have changed its interface and with that, it tells me that the videos are "not supported on my web browser". I was able to use Pluto on Opera with no problems up until that point. I tried updating Opera, but that did not fix it.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

Confirmed in Opera 134.0.5954.56 64-bit on Windows 11 with https://pluto.tv/us/watch/live-tv/. Same issue in Opera Developer and Opera GX. Works fine in Chrome and in the latest Vivaldi snapshot.

Not finding any workarounds.

Starting Opera like this:

"%localappdata%\Programs\Opera\opera.exe" "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/151.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

to pretend to be the latest Chrome Stable on Windows doesn't help.

Going to the URL opera://browserjs and disabling browser.js doesn't help. (I checked browser.js and siteprefs.json and there are no workarounds for pluto.tv anyway.)

Closing Opera, deleting the 2 Widevine folders in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable", starting Opera, going to the URL opera://components, clicking update for the 2 Widevine components to redownload them and restarting Opera doesn't help. "Google Widevine Windows CDM - Version: 1.0.2738.0" and "Widevine Content Decryption Module - Version: 4.10.3050.0" to be specific.

A fresh profile doesn't help.

Disabling "Graphics acceleration" at the URL opera://settings/system doesn't help.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

Bug DNA-125528 has been filed for this issue. Will let you know if I hear anything.

Aleksas123

Aleksas123

Since it works in Chrome and Vivaldi but fails across Opera One, GX and Developer, could this be related to an Opera-specific media or DRM integration rather than Widevine itself?

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @Aleksas123

@Aleksas123 That was the thought at first, but a dev found some Pluto code that purposely disables playback if it detects Opera. Modifying the Javascript makes things work in Opera. We here and Opera have to reach out to Pluto to fix it.

I can provide details later when I get a chance. And, I’ll see if there’s a workaround since the —user-agent switch isn’t enough to fool Pluto.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @burnout426

@burnout426 said in Pluto TV Stopped Working:

I can provide details later when I get a chance.

In both https://player-services.pluto.tv/1.42.2/smart-tag/smart.tag.js and https://player-services.pluto.tv/1.42.2/smart-tag-data-service/smart.tag.data.service.js?cb=71, there's:

OPERA:{disable:!0}

where is should be:

OPERA: {minVersion: 15}

for example.

While that sounds like something that just deals with smart tags, it appears to cause Opera to get that error.