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--></style></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 17:24:16 -0700, you wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>On Sat, 2023-04-15 at 18:15 -0600, <a href="mailto:shredder83@gmail.com">shredder83@gmail.com</a> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>Hey everyone,</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>?</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>I am using a paid subscription for IPTV. Trying to get it to work</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>with Mythtv.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>I am able to scan the channels and get program data.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>When I go to play a channel, it times out.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>?</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>If I do a wget to the URL that the tuner is trying to connect to</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>(From the mythtv log file), I get a 302 redirect. Wget does download</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>the mpeg stream no problem. I can play the downloaded file with VMC.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>?</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>I thought that the newer versions of MythTV (I am running .33.1)</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>fixed this issue? Is that not the case?</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>?</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>Any help on getting MythTV to work through the redirect would be</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>grest.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>?</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>Thanks.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>i have always had to compile with the patch found at the end of this</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>thread: ?http://email.mg.glenb.net/c/eJwkyk1uxCAMQOHTkF2RTbBhFixGlXIPMJ5JpPxUQEfq7bvI8ul9NckrV_KTJuSIDJ4pTGui8sASCiCCEw8YJWeNFCu6LLn6aUtMM7kQaI4ItZZCKEzCM0f1AoT6eGlgKFbyobvx8N71LPbUMe1pHeOnm_lp3GLcsm99dJubrNtHreRWrpPBynUYtxx_Yx0f45bfrq0btzBAQDbfzjxhm1q6wde9Pdxpr_b-DwAA__9Zm0MM am</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>using 33 fixes but i still use this because it works for me on the</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>redirects</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I was also under the impression that redirects should work now - I</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>thought I saw something in the release notes about it for v31 or v32?</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>If you do not want to use that patch, then the other way to do IPTV</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>with redirects is to use an External Recorder:</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ExternalRecorder">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ExternalRecorder</a></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>This would use curl, wget, ffmpeg, tsduck, vlc or some other such</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>software that allows you to do IPTV and provide a stream the can be</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>used in an external recorder.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>There are various examples of how to do external recorders, some more</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>applicable to IPTV than others. Not all of them have been published -</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I am fairly sure there are people who are using them for pay IPTV</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>where they have to do special authentication to make it work, for</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>example.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythexternrecorder_v4l2_vlc">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythexternrecorder_v4l2_vlc</a></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><a href="https://github.com/garybuhrmaster/mythhdhrrecorder">https://github.com/garybuhrmaster/mythhdhrrecorder</a></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for the ideas. I am not set up to comile from source, so I wouldn’t be going that route if I can help.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I took a look through the External Recorders section. Looks like I’ll need to totally reformat my m3u file to have it work with those recorders. May look at that as a last ditch effort.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m going to try a few different settings in the IPTV recorder config to see if I can get it working. Hopefully there is some simple setting I don’t have set.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,.</p></div></body></html>