[mythtv-users] IPTV recorder seems broken -- large jumpy files

glen glenb at glenb.us
Sun Mar 18 19:55:11 UTC 2018


On Sun, 2018-03-18 at 19:12 +0000, John P Poet wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 12:55 PM Greg Thompson <gthompson20 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.
> > bc.ca> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 22:58 +0000, Mark Perkins wrote:
> > > 
> > > >
> > > 
> > > > On 18/03/18 08:41, Mark Perkins wrote:
> > > 
> > > > >
> > > 
> > > > > Have you tried using ffmpeg -i or mediainfo or something
> > > equivalent
> > > 
> > > > > to
> > > 
> > > > > compare the file created by mythtv to the file created from
> > > ffmpeg?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I didn't.  I ended up replacing the IPTV recorder with my own
> > > External
> > > 
> > > recorder based on "ffmpeg -i "$URL" -acodec copy -vcodec copy -f
> > > 
> > > mpegts"
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Would you mind sharing your script or code to do this? I am looking
> > at doing something like this myself with my TBS2603 HDMI to IP
> > encoder due to some Live TV issues with the IPTV recorder.
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Do you know c++?  If you want a full c++ example of writing an
> external recorder, you can look at https://github.com/jpoet/Hauppauge
> USB .  That is for the Colossus2 which uses usb, but you could
> replace that part with some ffmpeg code.
> 
> That being said, I would not mind seeing what Brian came up with for
> ffmpeg.  There are times when such an interface would be useful.
> 
> John 
> 
> 
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i would like to see this also, as i have hls streams that myth iptv
won't open but ffmpeg can open and record. i installed tvheadend solely
to deal with those links. it would be great to incorporate ffmpeg into
a recorder in myth.
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