[mythtv] iptv recorder with enigma2 box

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On Monday, 22 February 2016, Karl Dietz <dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org>
wrote:

> Hi Torbjorn,
>
> did you open a bug ticket to track these issues?
>
> On 21.02.2016 17:48, Torbjorn Jansson wrote:
>
>> problem 1: url too long
>> url got cutoff since it was longer than 128 character limit of
>> capturecard.videodevice in the database.
>>
>
> Can you post the playlist and preferably a documentation that can be
> used to determite the maximum URL length? (to the ticket)
>
> problem 2: "#EXTM3U "
>> channel scanning didn't work at all, it just complained about the file.
>> apparently there is an extra space in the first line of the m3u file
>> like this without quotes: "#EXTM3U "
>>
>
> Please post a sample, so our parser can be relaxed to accept more
> variants of M3U.
>
> problem 3: format of #EXTINF:
>> next the format of EXTINF: is a bit different, like this:
>> #EXTINF:-1,Animal Planet
>>
>
> That's an issue. Our parser is written around the concept of playlists
> with channel numbers. Preferably Enigma2 would prepend the channel
> number that is used in the other interfaces.
> (TV screen / webiste / etc.)
>
> problem 4: channel.serviceid=0
>> field serviceid in channel table is 0, result is that the backend can't
>> find the channel once it has successful started receiving data.
>> there is errors in the log about not able to find program 0 in PAT
>>
>> only way to workaround this is specify #EXTVLCOPT:program= in the m3u
>> file.
>>
>> i assume there is no way of convincing the backend to tune to the only
>> working service there is?
>>
>
> This requires a rewrite / redesign. Reading a bit of the stream,
> counting PIDs of the packets, then trying to figure out which service
> uses these PIDs. With some services sharing PIDs this is going to be a
> bit of guessing game.
>
> But if I remember correctly the URLs contains all kinds of tuning
> details, like frequency, PIDs, etc. if the program_number/service_id is
> also part of the tuning information, then it would be easiest to extend
> the playlist generator to just add this information.
>
> Regards,
> Karl



There is no standard for a playlist of HLS stream.
I made the one we're using to look a bit like the MP3 one as used by the
old WinAmp and that we could reuse the existing playlist code.

The only thing defined is what's found in the m3u8 one (the HLS stream
itself)
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