Recommend an IPTV service

[jrockow]

jd1940

How is your testing going with ACE?
My results are not very encouraging.

A lot of times the wrong program is being recorded; inaccurate EPG.
Other times my playback of the recordings speed up at times, stutter at times, and are generally unwatchable for me.

I did notice that some of the recordings play back better in VLC then they do in NPVR.

[sub]

I did notice that some of the recordings play back better in VLC then they do in NPVR.

If you've got an example recording, I'm happy to take a look.

[jd1940]

jd1940

How is your testing going with ACE?
My results are not very encouraging.

A lot of times the wrong program is being recorded; inaccurate EPG.
Other times my playback of the recordings speed up at times, stutter at times, and are generally unwatchable for me.

I did notice that some of the recordings play back better in VLC then they do in NPVR.

I've had no problems recording programs or viewing live TV. You are right about inaccurate EPG, I've run across that a few times.

[jrockow]

I've done some more testing, and it's possible my problems are in-house.
I'll keep testing.

Thanx for your response.

[sbiddle]

I've just had some time to play again with the IPTV support after a fairly hectic few months with work. I've noticed the new legacy demux still doesn't work well and crashes pretty much straight away yet the legacy one works fine. Is this a known issue still sub or is there something messed up with my system?

I was also trying to create a custom m3u file for import but can't seem to find a channel number tag that works if I do an import in the IPTV devices page. Is this something that is supported at all?

[sub]

I've just had some time to play again with the IPTV support after a fairly hectic few months with work. I've noticed the new legacy demux still doesn't work well and crashes pretty much straight away yet the legacy one works fine. Is this a known issue still sub or is there something messed up with my system?

Is your AAC decoder set to the Microsoft DTV-DVD Audio Decoder? If so, this patch should fix it:
https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...post519685

I was also trying to create a custom m3u file for import but can't seem to find a channel number tag that works if I do an import in the IPTV devices page. Is this something that is supported at all?

Where exactly in the m3u are you specifying the channel number? Can you have me an example channel from your file?

[sbiddle]

Awesome work! That patch solves the issue for me. I do just have one remaining issue and that's with most of the FTA Australian channels that are mostly all on Akamai not working. I use DNS4ME and these feeds work fine in a browser and VLC.

The m3u8 file I have doesn't have channel numbers in it. I'm merely trying to create my own as I only want to add the channels I really want. The problem is when I import the file the channel numbers all start at 1. Is there a tag I can add that will map to a NPVR channel number?

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="NBC.us" tvg-name="NBC WEST" tvg-logo="https://s3.amazonaws.com/stricons/NBC.us.png" group-title="USA",NBC WEST
http://<URL of feed>

[sub]

Awesome work! That patch solves the issue for me.

Great.

I do just have one remaining issue and that's with most of the FTA Australian channels that are mostly all on Akamai not working. I use DNS4ME and these feeds work fine in a browser and VLC.

I don't have a VPN/DNS service for Australia, so can't easily check this myself. If you're able to supply some logs I'll check what's happening.

The m3u8 file I have doesn't have channel numbers in it. I'm merely trying to create my own as I only want to add the channels I really want. The problem is when I import the file the channel numbers all start at 1. Is there a tag I can add that will map to a NPVR channel number?

I haven't seen any tag for channel number in the m3u files I've seen, so it doesn't currently support one. I had thought you might have found one that was worth adding. The closest I've seen is the name portion of the #EXTINF line seems to sometimes have the number in this type of format: ",4 - NBC WEST", which I could add support for.

[sbiddle]

Great.

I don't have a VPN/DNS service for Australia, so can't easily check this myself. If you're able to supply some logs I'll check what's happening.

I haven't seen any tag for channel number in the m3u files I've seen, so it doesn't currently support one. I had thought you might have found one that was worth adding. The closest I've seen is the name portion of the #EXTINF line seems to sometimes have the number in this type of format: ",4 - NBC WEST", which I could add support for.

I had never really looked much into m3u files and just assumed there was somewhere in them to specify a channel number tag but it seems this isn't the case.

How difficult would it be to add an option in the IPTV settings to specific a starting channel number for imports? ie start allocating IPTV channels from channel 500 onwards when you import a file? This could also mean you could import from multiple sources and they also wouldn't override each other.

[scJohn]

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