[mythtv-users] IPTV UDP/Multicast problem.

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi again

I like doing conversation by myself :)

On Feb 3, 2008 2:52 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I first tried to use the same playlist I had created for VLC which looks like:
> #EXTM3U
> #EXTINF:0,1 - Al Jazeera (English)
> udp://@233.29.121.2:1234
> #EXTINF:0,2 - Bloomberg (English)
> udp://@233.29.121.3:1234

Okay, the problem definitely came from the @... this is fixed

>
> I changed that playlist to be like:
> #EXTM3U
> #EXTINF:0,1 - Al Jazeera (English)
> udp://233.29.121.2:1234?multicast
> #EXTINF:0,2 - Bloomberg (English)
> udp://233.29.121.3:1234?multicast

I now have removed the ?multicast in each URL, and it now works !
I can watch IPTV in mythtv

However, the video is very choppy and will freeze a lot. This is on a
3.4GHz Pentium 4. VLC has no problem watching the stream on the same
machine. The video is just perfect with VLC :(

I have added the following files for those looking for the same
problem later on:

Playlist to use for "network recorder" with the ISP TPG in Australia
in order to watch their IPTV channels using Myth (need mythtv 0.22)
http://avenard.org/mythtv/playlist-tpg-myth.m3u

I've named the channels from 300 onward, as the standard Free to Air
channel go from 1 to 220.

Playlist for VLC:
http://avenard.org/mythtv/playlist-tpg-vlc.m3u

in linux just type: vlc http://avenard.org/mythtv/playlist-tpg-vlc.m3u

For the Mac users:
I have also put an Intel build of MythFrontend for Intel machine, for
both Leopard and 10.4 (10.4 build hasn't been tested, but works in
Leopard)
http://avenard.org/mythtv/MythFrontend-0.22-Rev15447-Intel.zip
Leopard only build:
http://avenard.org/mythtv/MythFrontend-0.22-Rev15447-Leopard-Intel.zip

All I could find where PowerPC build of mythfrontend 0.22 trunk which
crashes on my Intel Macbook Pro with Leopard.

Now, very keen to hear why Mythtv is so choppy playing those IPTV
streams... It's barely usable.

Jean-Yves