[mythtv-users] IPTV HTTP Streaming

[Mark Perkins]

On 1 March 2017 2:20:27 AM John Corps <envoys at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am having an issue when it comes to IPTV HLS streaming. I have my service
> that uses an M3U playlist that is pointing to such URL like
> http://iptvservice.com:7875/live/username/password/channelnum.ts but
> accessing that, you are redirected to another URL like
> http://1.1.1.1:7874/live/username/password/channelnum.ts?token=someverylongtokengenerated
>
> Inside myth setup when it loads this M3U when doing channel scan, it shows
> in the logs:
>
> 2017-02-25 10:22:44.078296 I
> http://iptvservice.com:7875/live/username/password/channelnum.ts ->
> http://1.1.1.1:7874/live/username/password/channelnum.ts?token=someverylongtokengenerated
> 2017-02-25 10:22:49.210823 E  IsHLSPlaylist - Open Failed: timed-out
> http://iptvservice.com:7875/live/username/password/channelnum.ts
>
> Now as a test, I created my own M3U file with just the
> http://1.1.1.1:7874/live/username/password/channelnum.ts?token=someverylongtokengenerated
> and Myth loads that fine as a channel and I can watch it. The problem is,
> that token appears to change daily.
>
> Is there any way to get the redirect working so I don't have to do a new
> scan every day?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>

What version MythTV are you running? I would strongly recommend at least 0.28 and up or things may not work anyway.
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