Alternative M3U URL

[sub]

Does http://localhost:8866/ give you a 404 or does it display the index? I have a feeling it has something to do with that.

This is normal when running it as a service on Windows, and not related.

[sub]

Strange, it used to work fine, but now Kestrel is giving me back 404's, even when I query the URL in postman I get a 404.

If you want to post the logs, I'll check what's happening when you try.

[Rogier21]

It looks like this is growing more problems.

Out of desperation I did a clean re-install, re-setup my channels but still nothing. Can't view channels through Kodi or the web player either.

When I start a channel I get in C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\web\temp:

Code:

ffmpeg version 4.2.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9.2.1 (GCC) 20200122
  configuration: --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-sdl2 --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libdav1d --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-gmp --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libmysofa --enable-libspeex --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --enable-libmfx --enable-amf --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-nvenc --enable-nvdec --enable-dxva2 --enable-avisynth --enable-libopenmpt
  libavutil      56. 31.100 / 56. 31.100
  libavcodec     58. 54.100 / 58. 54.100
  libavformat    58. 29.100 / 58. 29.100
  libavdevice    58.  8.100 / 58.  8.100
  libavfilter     7. 57.100 /  7. 57.100
  libswscale      5.  5.100 /  5.  5.100
  libswresample   3.  5.100 /  3.  5.100
  libpostproc    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100
http://127.0.0.1:8866/live?channeloid=7149&transcoder=fee60537-b298-4381-83cc-86577066bcff&client=9930c86c-f608-4f78-b14c-2ad95e3026e8: Invalid data found when processing input

When I open that URL it's blank, no content whatsoever:

Code:

Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2020 02:43:42 GMT
Server: Kestrel

I attached my logs, I don't see anything obvious in them unfortunately.

Verified through POTPlayer that the tuner still works, and it shows a normal picture with 100% signal strength.

[mvallevand]

I don't see the Kodi information because that is a real test without transcoding but definitely you should turn off hw transcoding to check basic performance if you want to try the web browser

Martin

[sub]

Yep - what he said. Try with hardware acceleration disabled.

[Rogier21]

I don't think that I have HW acceleration enabled, it's this page that enables it right:

[mvallevand]

Your logs show you changed it, perhaps you changed it back.

2020-07-31 20:29:26.992 [DEBUG][34] Setting '/Settings/WebServer/VideoEncoder' to 'NVIDIA'

2020-07-31 20:31:43.846 [DEBUG][33] Using h264_nvenc encoder

We would need a fresh set of logs. If you do a Kodi test that would be be cleanest.

Martin

[Rogier21]

I did change it yes, but changed it back pretty much right after. It's now set to the picture above.

I attached the fresh logs after trying to play with Kodi and the web one more time.

[mvallevand]

Thanks that is much easier to look at. Do you have a folder C:\Users\Public\Videos

If so stop the service and run NextPVRServer.exe CLI to see if it is a permissions error.

Martin

[Rogier21]

Thanks Martin!

When I re-installed I didn't re-setup the temp and recordings directory, that directory does exist though, but you're right, most likely the service doesn't have permission to write to here.

After my re-install it seems that the remote (VLC) URLs also work again.

Thanks for troubleshooting!