[mythtv-users] Iptv

[Daryl McDonald]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 7:55 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:34:29 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >> > trieli at mythtv:~$ ls -al /var/www/html
> >> >total 24
> >> >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Feb 21 10:26 .
> >> >drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  4096 May 26  2016 ..
> >> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11321 May 26  2016 index.html
> >> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    50 Feb 21 10:26 playlist.m3u
> >> >trieli at mythtv:~$
> >> >
> >> >Is there anything wrong with these permissions?
> >>
> >> No.  The web server can read the files, as it runs as root.  So access
> >> to the files is then controlled by the web server.  Which will allow
> >> you to access them from anywhere that has access to the web server -
> >> it is not set up by default with any restrictions on access.  To check
> >> that it is working, run this from a (non-root) command prompt on that
> >> box:
> >>
> >> wget http://127.0.0.1/playlist.m3u
> >>
> >> It should download a copy of the playlist.m3u file.
>
> >
> >Thanks Stephen, that gives me this:
> >trieli at mythtv:~$ wget http://127.0.0.1/playlist.m3u
> >--2018-02-21 19:18:59--  http://127.0.0.1/playlist.m3u
> >Connecting to 127.0.0.1:80... connected.
> >HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> >Length: 50 [audio/x-mpegurl]
> >Saving to: ‘playlist.m3u’
> >
> >playlist.m3u        100%[===================>]      50  --.-KB/s    in 0s
> >
> >
> >2018-02-21 19:18:59 (3.47 MB/s) - ‘playlist.m3u’ saved [50/50]
> >
> >trieli at mythtv:~$
> >
> >So maybe this isn't right?
>
> That is all working correctly.
>
> >trieli at mythtv:~$ cat /var/www/html/playlist.m3u
> >#EXTM3U
> >https://watch.cbc.ca/live/channel/windsor
> >trieli at mythtv:~$
> >
> >If the URL that I can stream on FireFox isn't what I should use, how do I
> >determine what to use? Or is something else wrong with my playlist?
>
> Your playlist.m3u file is not in the correct format.  It needs some
> extra bits to make it work with MythTV.  Here is an example from my
> file:
>
> #EXTINF:0,4061 - ESPN2
> #EXTMYTHTV:xmltvid=espn2.sky.co.nz
> #EXTVLCOPT:program=1222
> rtsp://satip.jsw.gen.nz:554/?src=1&freq=12734&msys=dvbs&
> plts=off&fec=34&pol=h&ro=0.35&sr=22500&mtype=qpsk&pids=0,311,1011,1111
>
> The #EXTINF: line is required and always has the 0, at the front, then
> the channum value, a space, a - character, a space and then the
> channel name (which, IIRC, gets put in both the name and callsign
> fields in the database).  The #EXTMYTHTV: line always has the xmltvid=
> bit and following that the correct xmltvid value to match the EPG data
> you are using.  It is optional - if you do not have EPG for the
> channel, do not use a #EXTMYTHTV: line.  The #EXTVLCOPT: line is also
> optional - it always has a program= followed by the serviceid of the
> channel.  You should not use #EXTVLCOPT: as your IPTV channels are
> pure web streaming channels - mine come from tuners via minisatip and
> do have serviceid values.
>
> There can also be problems with URLs that get redirected to a
> different URL.  I think that redirection code was added to
> mythbackend, so it should now handle that, but I have not tested it
> myself.  If it does not, then you have to somehow track through the
> redirection(s) and find the real URL and use that.
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My bad, I assumed that the leading # meant it was commented out and
therefore optional. How this:

 trieli at mythtv:~$ cat /var/www/html/playlist.m3u
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,9_1 - CBC
#EXTMYTHTV:xmltvid=72772
https://watch.cbc.ca/live/channel/windsor
trieli at mythtv:~$
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