[mythtv-users] Recording IPTV?

John P Poet jppoet at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 21:11:24 UTC 2020


On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 2:40 PM Peter Carlsson <maillist.peter at home.se>
wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 09:12:32AM +0800, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 18:20 +1300, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> > > Also, I believe that MythTV can not handle URLs that get redirected
> >
> > FWIW it will from 31 onwards[0], although I've since switched to using
> > the generic external recorder[1] with vlc[2] on the theory that vlc is
> > much more widely used than myth's builtin support so is likely more
> > compatible with more things etc.
> >
> > Hopefully that final link is also useful as inspiration for using
> > streamlink.
>
> I have now tried more and had some good progress.
>
> I used the example file in [2] and changed the [RECORDER] command to:
>
>   command="streamlink --player=vlc --stdout \"%URL%\" 720p"
>
> and the [TUNER] channels to:
>
>   channels=mythtv-iptv-external-recorder-channels.conf
>
> The channels file look like this:
>
>   [1]
>   NAME=SVT1 HD
>   CALLSIGN=SVT1HD
>   XMLTVID=svt1.svt.se
>   URL="https://www.svtplay.se/kanaler/svt1?start=auto"
>
>   [2]
>   NAME=SVT2 HD
>   CALLSIGN=SVT2HD
>   XMLTVID=svt2.svt.se
>   URL="https://www.svtplay.se/kanaler/svt2?start=auto"
>
> After configuring MythTV to use a generic external recorder, scan and
> ran mythfilldatabase I successfully managed to watch TV using the first
> channel for this tuner.
>
> What still does not work is when I try to switch channel it exit back to
> MythTV first screen. This I still have to figure out how to solve.
>
> But except for this it has worked better than I expected.
>
> Thanks once again to those who helped me so far!
>
> Best regards,
> Peter Carlsson
>

Hi Peter,

The problem with changing channels in LiveTV was a bug. As of today, It has
been fixed in MythTV fixes/31. If you are building from source, you can
update now and it should work.

John
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