<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 11:46 PM OpenMedia Support <<a href="mailto:support@openmedia.co.nz">support@openmedia.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm still having issues with some local IPTV feeds with the FreeBox tuner<br>
so I want to try youtube-dl or vlc with mythexternrecorder.<br>
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Any tips on how to debug the external recorder as my channel scan is<br>
failing for both VLC and youtube-dl configurations<br>
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vlc-nz.conf<br>
<br>
[RECORDER]<br>
# The recorder command to execute. %URL% is optional, and<br>
# will be replaced with the channel's "URL" as defined in the<br>
# [TUNER/channels] (channel conf) configuration file<br>
#<br>
# %LOGGING% will be replaced with mythtv logging params. For example:<br>
# --verbose general,channel,record --logpath /var/log/mythtv --loglevel<br>
info --quiet<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you really have this "info --quiet" by itself on a line, or is that just a cut and paste error? If it is really there in your conf file, that might cause it to not load properly.</div><div><br></div><div>When you are scanning, the "Scan Type" is "Import from ExtneralRecorder"?</div><div><br></div><div>If you run mythtv-setup like:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">mythtv-setup -v chanscan:debug,channel:debug --logpath .</span></div><div><br></div><div>You will end up with a log file in the current directory, with good information in it.</div><div><br></div><div>What version of MythTV are you running? The "fixes/31" version has some nice ExternalRecorder improvements in it, such as LiveTV channel changes now work.</div><div><br></div><div>John<br></div></div></div>