Emby Theater

[arrbee99]

Just wondering if there's any chance of getting NextPVR to work in Emby Theater. Version 3.6.whatever worked in Emby web interface but not in ET, now trying 3.7.7 4 months later, and its still the same. Thanks.

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This would be something the Emby guys would need to look into on their side. I'm not aware of any issues in NextPVR APIs that would stop them from using NextPVR in Emby Theatre. The same APIs for streaming live tv etc are used Kodi, VLC, the NextPVR iOS app, XNEWA etc, without any issues, so should also be fine in Emby too. It'd likely just be some bug in the NextPVR plugin they created for Emby.

If their developers need any help, I'm always happy to answer questions or look into problems for them, but they'd need to give me a description of what's going wrong (since I don't use Emby myself).

[arrbee99]

Thanks for your quick reply, will see if I can get a bit further at Emby.

[arrbee99]

Was asking at Emby, in this thread http://emby.media/community/index.php?/t...-tv/page-3 and Luke said something about getting url's to work in windows media player - would that be possible ?

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Was asking at Emby, in this thread http://emby.media/community/index.php?/t...-tv/page-3 and Luke said something about getting url's to work in windows media player - would that be possible ?

I replied on the Emby forum.

Short answer: NextPVR streams work fine for me in Windows Media Player.

Long answer from the Emby forum:

NextPVR produces transport streams, which is the native format used by digital television. You can watch them in VLC easily by opening the network stream http://127.0.0.1:8866/live?channel=1, or any other player that understands transport streams. The same streams are used in Kodi, and several other apps.

By default Windows Media Player plays very vew formats, like mp4, avi and wmv files. For anything else, like most network streams, including transport streams, and whatever audio/video decoders are needed for your local broadcasts, Windows Media Player requires you install directshow filters to extend it's default set of features.

What DirectShow filters is Emby Theatre using for playback of transport streams? If it's not supplying any, and just replying on Windows to choose some random combination that looks like it'll do the job, then I'm sure this will work for some users, but you're always going to get some users where it doesn't working. In reality Emby should be explicitly supplying the directshow filters that get used, like transport stream source filter etc, so that users can rely on it working, and all get the same behaviour - otherwise you're always gonna have random problems.

When I open http://127.0.0.1:8866/live?channel=1 in Windows Media Player it plays fine. What decoders and directshow filters is it using? I have no idea (can't see what's hidden away internally in WMP), but I'm guessing it's probably using the LAV splitter, and a combination of different decoders.

arrbee99, you'll probably get it working in WMP by installing the LAV filters from https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters...taller.exe

[arrbee99]

Maybe I've been doing the wrong thing, which wouldn't be unusual, but when I tried the url http://localhost:8866/live?channeloid=7148&client=MB3.1 in media player and mpc it didn't work, but when I tried http://127.0.0.1:8866/live?channel=1 in media player and VLC it worked fine. No idea what that means. I appear to have LAV Filters 0.67, according to Windows Uninstall or change a program panel.

[arrbee99]

See Lav is up to 0.68, but haven't updated yet.

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http://localhost:8866/live?channeloid=74...3.1​ works fine in WMP here (channeloid is different in my case because that's the IDs used in my database). Given that other URL worked for you, maybe try replacing the 'localhost' bit with '127.0.0.1', in case your machine is having issues resolving what 'localhost' is.

[arrbee99]

Tried http://127.0.0.1:8866/live?channeloid=7148&client=MB3.1 in vlc and mpc but didn't work.

The channeloid wouldn't be different ? the 127.0.0.1 shouldn't be 192.168.1.240 or something ?

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Maybe that channeloid is wrong, like maybe Emby has got an old-now-incorrect list of your channels. I can't tell you what they should be unless you provided your npvr.db3 channel database though.

127.0.0.1 is fine if it's your local machine, and worked fine when you used the http://127.0.0.1:8866/live?channel=1 version of the call (which is based on the channel number rather than the channel OID)