[mythtv-users] Debugging mythexternrecorder - any guidance?

[John P Poet]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 8:50 PM OpenMedia Support <support at openmedia.co.nz>
wrote:

> >> On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 11:16 AM John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Steven,
> >>>
> >>> It has been a while since I used mythexternrecorder with that kind of
> >>> configuration. I just tried it and am getting similar results to you. I
> >>> will look into it and hopefully get it fixed soon.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I believe I have this fixed in master. I will push it to fixes/31
> >> tomorrow.
> >> Then you can leave the TUNER/command empty and it will correctly replace
> >> the %USR% in the RECORDER/command to  "tune" the channel. Channel
> >> scanning
> >> in mythtv-setup should work as well.
> >>
> >> John
> >
> > Hi John.
> >
> > Thanks for the fix. I'll take a look when you push to fixes/31 as I'm not
> > in a position to test against master at present.
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Hi John
>
> Thanks for all of the assistance. I've now tested the extern support with
> both VLC and youtube-dl and "almost" everything is working.
>
> With some of the streams vlc gets a bit confused as the IPTV stream rate
> adapts, and I loose audio. youtube-dl appears to be a lot more reliable at
> this stage.
>
> The one remaining issue is mapping a xmltv EPV source onto the external
> tuners, which I'll kick off in a new thread.
>

Depending on your source, you may find that streamlink does a good job.
Guide data is always the trickiest issue to solve.

John
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