As of this Big Brother 22 "All Star" season, CBS has implemented a new streaming service and with it, Digital Rights Management.

DRM allows CBS to protect streams through encryption, and lock their streaming media to only their desired services or sites. This will make it difficult or maybe impossible to (legally) provide a 3rd party application viewing experience for BBUS Live Feeds... which is what BBViewer does.

I have always done what I could to maintain CBS's authentication and methods to protect their paid product in the past, and will continue to do so.

What does it MEAN?

As a Live Feeder (I don't like 'feedsters'), I started developing BBViewer around season 12 after BBLite was no longer being updated. I wanted to improve the experience for the die hard live feed watchers.

If I can't find a legitimate way to include access in my 3rd party application, the BB22 feeds (and future US feeds) will no longer be available.

I'm still researching if this is possible and if I can find a way to, legally, I will.. but I can't promise anything.

Further more, with a new streaming service, it is likely the access to previous years feeds will go away soon. Those are currently available in the development version of the updated viewer.

OMG NO BBVIEWER FOR ALL STARS?!

I can't tell you how annoyed I am by this.. BUT - I, like you, do not like the CBS live feed player.

I am currently testing a Chrome extension that could provide similar enhanced features directly on the CBS live feed page, and hopefully a similar BBViewer experience. More details on this soon.

I want to thank all the BBViewer users, donaters and bookmarkers. You made it all worth it.

The Future

I will still develop BBViewer for related content and legitimate streaming options. You may have known I have been working on an updated viewer, which is available in my Discord.

To join the Discord server, click this little guy:

Once I determine how things will be moving forward, I will release the updated BBViewer.

For the Adobe Air version (that little blue tv icon), it can no longer login to CBS services. It can still be used for other things, but it is quite limited. Once the new viewer is released, I will recommend you uninstall it, as any future improvements will only be available in the new viewer.