[mythtv-users] Invalid HLS Streams

[Daniel Frey]

I have been playing with getting ExoPlayer to be the default player in
MythTV Player.  Unfortunately, I can't seem to get a reliable HLS stream to
be created by myth transcode, either through the services API or through
manually creating one with the WebFrontend.

ExoPlayer is becoming the preferred player for Android. It supports a large
number of formats, especially streaming formats. It is very extensible and
customizable. There are also plugins for integrating the Google Cast API
for initiating and controlling stream on Chromecast.

https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer

I found this utility to verify that the HLS streams are being created
correctly.

https://github.com/makandra/validate-hls

When I run this on any .m3u8 stream URL I create, it starts out validating
it OK, however, it quickly moves to errors like the following:

| | | Validating: Fragment(
http://192.168.86.200:6544/StorageGroup/Streaming/2173_20171004020000.ts.1280x720_2500kV_128kA.ao_64kA.000042.ts
)
| | | | ✔ Downloadable with 200 OK
| | | | ✘ Keyframe analysis failed: Error running ffprobe
["-select_streams", "v:0", "-show_frames",
"/var/folders/42/8x8tb3115517wrkl99xt9s640000gn/T/d20171007-75784-1v7jp0v/2173_20171004020000.ts.1280x720_2500kV_128kA.ao_64kA.000042.ts"]:
| | | |
| | | | ffprobe version 3.3.4 Copyright (c) 2007-2017 the FFmpeg developers
| | | |   built with Apple LLVM version 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42)
| | | |   configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.3.4
--enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3
--enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags=
--host-ldflags= --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid
--enable-opencl --enable-videotoolbox --disable-lzma --enable-vda
| | | |   libavutil      55. 58.100 / 55. 58.100
| | | |   libavcodec     57. 89.100 / 57. 89.100
| | | |   libavformat    57. 71.100 / 57. 71.100
| | | |   libavdevice    57.  6.100 / 57.  6.100
| | | |   libavfilter     6. 82.100 /  6. 82.100
| | | |   libavresample   3.  5.  0 /  3.  5.  0
| | | |   libswscale      4.  6.100 /  4.  6.100
| | | |   libswresample   2.  7.100 /  2.  7.100
| | | |   libpostproc    54.  5.100 / 54.  5.100
| | | |
/var/folders/42/8x8tb3115517wrkl99xt9s640000gn/T/d20171007-75784-1v7jp0v/2173_20171004020000.ts.1280x720_2500kV_128kA.ao_64kA.000042.ts:
Invalid data found when processing input
| | | Validating: Fragment(
http://192.168.86.200:6544/StorageGroup/Streaming/2173_20171004020000.ts.1280x720_2500kV_128kA.ao_64kA.000043.ts
)
| | | | ✔ Downloadable with 200 OK
| | | | ✘ Keyframe analysis failed: Error running ffprobe
["-select_streams", "v:0", "-show_frames",
"/var/folders/42/8x8tb3115517wrkl99xt9s640000gn/T/d20171007-75784-1yobr50/2173_20171004020000.ts.1280x720_2500kV_128kA.ao_64kA.000043.ts"]:
| | | |
| | | | ffprobe version 3.3.4 Copyright (c) 2007-2017 the FFmpeg developers
| | | |   built with Apple LLVM version 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42)
| | | |   configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.3.4
--enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3
--enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags=
--host-ldflags= --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid
--enable-opencl --enable-videotoolbox --disable-lzma --enable-vda
| | | |   libavutil      55. 58.100 / 55. 58.100
| | | |   libavcodec     57. 89.100 / 57. 89.100
| | | |   libavformat    57. 71.100 / 57. 71.100
| | | |   libavdevice    57.  6.100 / 57.  6.100
| | | |   libavfilter     6. 82.100 /  6. 82.100
| | | |   libavresample   3.  5.  0 /  3.  5.  0
| | | |   libswscale      4.  6.100 /  4.  6.100
| | | |   libswresample   2.  7.100 /  2.  7.100
| | | |   libpostproc    54.  5.100 / 54.  5.100
| | | |
/var/folders/42/8x8tb3115517wrkl99xt9s640000gn/T/d20171007-75784-1yobr50/2173_20171004020000.ts.1280x720_2500kV_128kA.ao_64kA.000043.ts:
Invalid data found when processing input
| | | ✘ Error in child resource
| | ✘ Error in child resource
| ✘ One or more playlists had errors
✘ Validation failed: One or more playlists had errors

The backend where this is being generated from is Xubuntu 16.04 with mythtv
v29 ppa.  Is this possible something with ffmpeg or libav? Is it possibly
something in mythtranscode?

Anyone having issues with unplayable hls streams? Can someone run that
validate-hls tool on their own streams and verify what I'm seeing?
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