VLC Streaming

[UncleJohnsBand]

Hah huh, got it!

@NumberFive
To which directorys points your timeshift and recordings buffer of gbpvr on the server? Is it a network share?

So....are you working ok now? If you are using shares.....then you may need this utility.

[ShiningDragon]

Hi

I found, that EWA has problems with one type of shares.

Access to native drives: no problem
Access to shared drives (user and system acc) via \\<servername>\share: no problem
Access to shared drives (user and system acc) via \\<serverip\share: no problem

But! If you assign a driveletter to a share (e.g. h:\share instead \\<server>\share) then EWA CAN NOT ACCESS the folder and subfolders. VLC will then close immediately on stream and the librarys won't show any files inside these folders.

For me it seems to be a small bug. Annoying to find, but if found, it's easy to master.

[NumberFive]

Hmm,

On my server I'm using D:\Recordings and D:\Videos, etc for all the paths. These are shared on the network, but are also a local disk.

If I manually copy the arguments from the EWA log and use CMD to launch:

Code:

vlc.exe -I http "D:\Videos\richard.hammonds.invisible.worlds.s01e02.hdtv.xvid-ftp.avi" :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=512,width=320,height=213,acodec=mp4a,ab=32,channels=2}:standard{access=http,mux=ts,dst=:7648} vlc:quit

VLC starts okay and I can connect to the stream using the .vlc link EWA generates. However, I have to start the VLC stream manually.

Any thoughts??

Thanks

[ShiningDragon]

Any thoughts??

Who has permissions within the shares? Everyone? Local User? SYSTEM? Readonly or full?

It really looks like, that you have the same problem, that i had. EWA seems not to be able to access your folder. Can you see the recordings in the ewa screen of d:\recordings or not?

[UncleJohnsBand]

Hi

I found, that EWA has problems with one type of shares.

Access to native drives: no problem
Access to shared drives (user and system acc) via \\<servername>\share: no problem
Access to shared drives (user and system acc) via \\<serverip\share: no problem

But! If you assign a driveletter to a share (e.g. h:\share instead \\<server>\share) then EWA CAN NOT ACCESS the folder and subfolders. VLC will then close immediately on stream and the librarys won't show any files inside these folders.

For me it seems to be a small bug. Annoying to find, but if found, it's easy to master.

Not really sure if that is a bug....when launching vlc from EWA/NEWA you are launching as a system account....not a local user account (unless you have set the id/pwd in the recording service to a local account) therfore when the share mapped as a drive is accessed depending on the host OS that is providing the disk access it may or may not work since it may or may not authenticate correctly.....at least this has been what my experience has been.......for me I use the \\servername\share format with the sharehelper this would be the recommended approach.

[ShiningDragon]

Hi UJB

Trust me... at least with Win7 64 this is a bug. Of course all my sharings, which are used with GB-PVR / nPVR has more than only the local users within the security and sharing options. If i watch to the task- or processmanager, i can see which user is used for which task. So, of course, the SYSTEM Acc is integrated to all shares.
And with other programs this shares works good.

Sharehelper is really a nice tool for people who don't know what to change, or are not interested to repeat the same settings on many folders. But i prefer to change settings like this by myself.

Like said before: If the problem with mapped shared folders/drives is known, then there's no problem. But if you don't think for this... it took me ~21 hours to find and fix the problem. XD


If i remember correctly, then nPVR has a similar problem like this. Should the client / server mode works better with nPVR i will checkout again.


Btw., how is your holiday?

[sub]

Hi

I found, that EWA has problems with one type of shares.

Access to native drives: no problem
Access to shared drives (user and system acc) via \\<servername>\share: no problem
Access to shared drives (user and system acc) via \\<serverip\share: no problem

But! If you assign a driveletter to a share (e.g. h:\share instead \\<server>\share) then EWA CAN NOT ACCESS the folder and subfolders. VLC will then close immediately on stream and the librarys won't show any files inside these folders.

This is exactly the behaviour I'd expect. The web server is running as a different user account, so wont be able see any drive mappings you've made under your own user account.

[NumberFive]

Okay, that's quite interesting. Sounds like we're on the right track, but on my setup the recordings and videos folders are a native local disk, shared with everyone from the local account. So they are the physical drive D:\Recordings, and also on the network as \\gbpvr\Recordings\

Still can't get VLC to start from EWA. I'm kinda stumped.