[mythtv-users] Open Failed: No suitable proxy found

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:27:31 -0500, you wrote:

>On Thu, 2018-03-01 at 13:43 -0600, Leo Butler wrote:
>> 
>> I'm wondering if the problem is that the host proxy is unknown for
>> some reason.
>
>Yeah.  I already thought of that.  It is known.
>
>> What does the following produce from your backend?
>> 
>> https_proxy=http://proxy:3128/ http_proxy=http://proxy:3128/ wget -O
>> - https://cbclivedai5-i.akamaihd.net/hls/live/567235/event2/CBOT/mast
>> er1.m3u8
>
>It displays the contents of that URL.  Additionally, even a basic test
>such as:
>
>$ ping -n -c 1 proxy
>PING server.example.com (10.75.22.247) 56(84) bytes of data.
>64 bytes from 10.75.22.247: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.320 ms
>
>--- server.example.com ping statistics ---
>1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
>rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.320/0.320/0.320/0.000 ms
>$ ping6 -n -c 1 proxy
>PING proxy(fd31:aeb1:48df::2) 56 data bytes
>64 bytes from fd31:aeb1:48df::2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.369 ms
>
>--- proxy ping statistics ---
>1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
>rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.369/0.369/0.369/0.000 ms
>
>proves that out.
>
>I suspect this has something to do with QT's less-than-stellar support
>of proxies, sadly.
>
>Cheers,
>b.

How good is your router?  Is it able to do the proxy redirection
invisibly for you?