Paging Martin --- IP camera as a extras channel

[snagglewest]

Yes, a "normal channel" is just a broadcast channel from the HDHR thru NextPVR. The extra does work if it's played thru the web UI and it did work thru the Vero4k.

[mvallevand]

Yes ok sounds like a RPi issue sorry.

Martin

[snagglewest]

Martin, I get it, you're not a fan of the pi but I think this is more a output format problem.

My question is, if you would be so kind as to help, is how would I form the ffmpeg argument so the extras outputs a mpeg2 stream like a normal broadcast tv channel rather than a H264 stream? It seems this may very well be my problem, but as I said, ffmpeg is like a foreign language to me.

[mvallevand]

h264 is "normal" for broadcast in most of the world even in the US cable card. You will end up needing to transcode for the web app which seems like a step backward

Better to figure out what is wrong with the stream and correcting it for the RPi which no doubt does support h264. I suggest based on your screen shot that you need to add -vf yadif but that is pure guess.

To answer you question you can probably change h264 to mpeg2video in the command line but you might find better choices maybe h/w encoding if you try

ffmpeg -codecs | grep mpeg

Martin