[mythtv-users] IPTV issues with AES streams

OpenMedia Support support at openmedia.co.nz
Thu Apr 16 20:53:10 UTC 2020


> On 16/04/2020 12:43, Ian Campbell wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2020-04-16 at 18:38 +1200, OpenMedia Support wrote:
>>> We've not got a wide range of IPTV streams available here in NZ, most
>>> of
>>> which work with the updated IPTV code in MythTV 31.
>>>
>>> I've created a new support ticket under
>>>   - https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13608
>>> but i'm after guidance on how to triage this further.
>>>
>>> I've tried running the backend with additional debugging to help trace
>>> the
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> Anyone here got experience debugging IPTV issues?
>> When I added the redirection stuff I added a lot of calls to LOG()...
>>
>> At this point my strong recommendation would be to use vlc together
>> with the mythexternrecorder stuff, vlc is basically always going to
>> have superior compatibility with the various types of stream out there.
>>
>> Useful links:
>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ExternalRecorder
>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Example_Configuration_files#vlc_Example
>>
>> I've been running that way since last year and I'm very happy.
>>
>> Ian.
>>
>
> While I would normally agree using VLC is the way to go, I use libVLC in
> MythQML and it usually plays just about anything I throw at it, in this
> case VLC doesn't work for the Brisbane stream (the other 3 are forbidden
> here in the UK so can't test those). Interestingly mythffplay does work 
> albeit with some stutter but mythfrontend doesn't work so ....
>


Looks like there is an issue with the ABC Brisbane feed as I've had it
working with both mpv and vlc in the past.


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