[mythtv-users] Recording IPTV?

[Peter Carlsson]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 03:11:24PM -0600, John P Poet wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 2:40 PM Peter Carlsson <maillist.peter at home.se>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 09:12:32AM +0800, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 18:20 +1300, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> > > > Also, I believe that MythTV can not handle URLs that get redirected
> > >
> > > FWIW it will from 31 onwards[0], although I've since switched to using
> > > the generic external recorder[1] with vlc[2] on the theory that vlc is
> > > much more widely used than myth's builtin support so is likely more
> > > compatible with more things etc.
> > >
> > > Hopefully that final link is also useful as inspiration for using
> > > streamlink.
> >
> > I have now tried more and had some good progress.
> >
> > I used the example file in [2] and changed the [RECORDER] command to:
> >
> >   command="streamlink --player=vlc --stdout \"%URL%\" 720p"
> >
> > and the [TUNER] channels to:
> >
> >   channels=mythtv-iptv-external-recorder-channels.conf
> >
> > The channels file look like this:
> >
> >   [1]
> >   NAME=SVT1 HD
> >   CALLSIGN=SVT1HD
> >   XMLTVID=svt1.svt.se
> >   URL="https://www.svtplay.se/kanaler/svt1?start=auto"
> >
> >   [2]
> >   NAME=SVT2 HD
> >   CALLSIGN=SVT2HD
> >   XMLTVID=svt2.svt.se
> >   URL="https://www.svtplay.se/kanaler/svt2?start=auto"
> >
> > After configuring MythTV to use a generic external recorder, scan and
> > ran mythfilldatabase I successfully managed to watch TV using the first
> > channel for this tuner.
> >
> > What still does not work is when I try to switch channel it exit back to
> > MythTV first screen. This I still have to figure out how to solve.
> >
> > But except for this it has worked better than I expected.
> >
> > Thanks once again to those who helped me so far!
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Peter Carlsson
> >
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> The problem with changing channels in LiveTV was a bug. As of today, It has
> been fixed in MythTV fixes/31. If you are building from source, you can
> update now and it should work.

Hi John,

Thank you for the information about the fix. As I mentioned elsewhere
I am still on version 30 and use Debian package but I hope to soon be
able to upgrade to 31.

Best regards,
Peter Carlsson