[mythtv-users] IPTV Recorder not following redirects

[OpenMedia]

> On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 17:24:16 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 2023-04-15 at 18:15 -0600, shredder83 at gmail.com wrote:
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>  
>>> I am using a paid subscription for IPTV. Trying to get it to work
>>> with Mythtv.
>>> I am able to scan the channels and get program data.
>>> When I go to play a channel, it times out.
>>>  
>>> If I do a wget to the URL that the tuner is trying to connect to
>>> (From the mythtv log file), I get a 302 redirect. Wget does download
>>> the mpeg stream no problem. I can play the downloaded file with VMC.
>>>  
>>> I thought that the newer versions of MythTV (I am running .33.1)
>>> fixed this issue? Is that not the case?
>>>  
>>> Any help on getting MythTV to work through the redirect would be
>>> grest.
>>>  
>>> Thanks.
>
>>i have always had to compile with the patch found at the end of this
>>thread:
>>  http://email.mg.glenb.net/c/eJwkyk1uxCAMQOHTkF2RTbBhFixGlXIPMJ5JpPxUQEfq7bvI8ul9NckrV_KTJuSIDJ4pTGui8sASCiCCEw8YJWeNFCu6LLn6aUtMM7kQaI4ItZZCKEzCM0f1AoT6eGlgKFbyobvx8N71LPbUMe1pHeOnm_lp3GLcsm99dJubrNtHreRWrpPBynUYtxx_Yx0f45bfrq0btzBAQDbfzjxhm1q6wde9Pdxpr_b-DwAA__9Zm0MM
>> am
>>using 33 fixes but i still use this because it works for me on the
>>redirects
>
> I was also under the impression that redirects should work now - I
> thought I saw something in the release notes about it for v31 or v32?
>
> If you do not want to use that patch, then the other way to do IPTV
> with redirects is to use an External Recorder:
>
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ExternalRecorder
>

Here are some examples of how I've used ExternalRecorder to capture NZ TV
Channels.

https://github.com/steven-ellis/mypvr-nz-iptv