[mythtv-users] External Recorder won't change channels

[John P Poet]

Honestly Marc, that part of the external recorder has never been tested by
anyone, as far as I know.  Feel free to submit patches to get it working.

I will come up with a way of testing it myself, but probably not in the
near future.

John

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:47 AM Marc Rawji <mrawji at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Marc Rawji <mrawji at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am trying to write an "external recorder". I think I have the code
>> working, for at least one channel.
>>
>> I can start on one channel, but I don't seem to be able to change
>> channels:
>>
> For every channel, I recreate a new MPEG-TS using ffmpeg. I am using the
>> same stream_id for all the channels, since each TS only has a single
>> program in it. Would that be causing the error?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Marc
>>
>
> So, I have my setup partially working. I have an external recorder that
> (currently) has 2 channels. I can record each channel independently and I
> get good recordings. Pausing LiveTV works too.
>
> I still can't change channels though.I get this error in the backend
> Stream handler died unexpectedly
> Which, I think comes from here:
>
> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/4d24d54ef43164f1325fcbe914450b7dea37e28f/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/recorders/ExternalRecorder.cpp#L105
>
> For what it's worth, if I interact with my ExternalRecorder from the
> command line, I can TuneChannel and the resulting output seems to work just
> fine.
>
> Any pointers are hugely appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Marc
>
>
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