[mythtv-users] Issues Setting up HTTP Live Streaming (reposting)

[Solon Boomer-Jenks]

I'm reposting this in case anyone has any ideas as to where I can look 
to diagnose this problem.  I'm basically to the point of considering 
wiping out my entire installation and starting over.  I hope there's at 
least one or two more things I can look at before I do that, though.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 12:05:20 -0400
> From: Solon Boomer-Jenks<mfrm at boomer-jenks.net>
> To:mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Issues Setting up HTTP Live Streaming
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>> On Sunday, 28 July 2013, Solon Boomer-Jenks wrote:
>>
>>> I'm having difficulty getting this setup.
>>>
>>> --I followed all the steps outlined in the wiki
article.http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Setting_up_HTTP_Live_Streaming_Recorder
>>>
>>>
>> If you did... It would work... Unfortunately, that's a fact... No
two ways
>> around it...
> Actually I would consider it quite fortunate if I discovered a simple
error that was preventing this from working.
>
>>> --This resulted in the channels appearing in the program guide, but
they appear light blue and I am unable to access them (selecting one 
will just close the program guide and return me to the last live TV 
channel). If I type in the channel number (ie 301), I get the following 
message: "MythTV is already using all available inputs for the channel 
you selected. If you want to watch an in-progress recording,
>>> select one from the playback menu. If you want to watch Live TV,
cancel one of the in-progress recordings from the delete menu." (nothing 
is recording other than the currently selected OTA live TV station)
>>>
>>>
>> There is no program guide or channel information provided if you
followed
>> the steps in the guide above. So there's no point going into the program
>> guide as there's nothing in it.
> I only mentioned the program guide because the channel numbers and names
> do show up there-- so the channels are being added. I realize there
> isn't going to be any program data. Unless you're saying the channels
> should not even show up there, in which case I'm at a complete loss as
> to what I could have done to make them appear.
>
>> The steps required to summarise:
>> Shut dhow mythbackend
>> Start mythtv-setup
>> Create in capture cards an IPTV entry with the URL to the HLS
playlist as
>> mentioned in the guide
>> Create a Source that does nothing
>> Assign the capture card to the source, then scan for channels.
>>
>> Quit mythtv-setup, restart mythbackend
>>
>> That's it...
> Just to be sure, I deleted the capture card and source and started
> over. Created a capture card of type network recorder with your URL,
> created a source with no grabber, assigned the source to the input and
> scanned. Same result.
>
>>> --I accidentally discovered that if I kill the mythbackend daemon
and restart it under my own ID (instead of mythtv), I can access one of 
these channels (whichever one I pick). However, if I then select 
another, it times out. Thereafter, they all appear in light blue and 
inaccessible just as above.
>> Winds like you haven't finish mythtv-setup and created or assigned the
>> right playback group. You need to set at least a default where the
>> recordings will be stored. That too is described in the general mythtv
>> manual.
>> When you quit mythtv-setup you would have got a message telling you
things
>> aren't completed and asking if you want to quit "if you know what
you are
>> doing"
> I just confirmed that my default storage group is set to
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings. No other groups are defined. I'm having no
> issue recording from my other sources (HD HomeRun tuners with Schedules
> Direct), which I have been doing for a couple years.

I took a few screen grabs of my configuration:
http://www.boomer-jenks.com/HLS/image1.jpg
http://www.boomer-jenks.com/HLS/image2.jpg
http://www.boomer-jenks.com/HLS/image3.jpg

And here's the Default storage group:
http://www.boomer-jenks.com/HLS/image4.jpg

And here's what happens when I go to Live TV and type 301 <enter>:
http://www.boomer-jenks.com/HLS/image5.jpg

That last image shows that I am able to record live TV off from my
tuners, which I would think would rule out storage groups as an issue.

Any other suggestions of what could be wrong here?