Video URI for Recordings?

[TheKenR]

Hello,

I'm connecting to my NextPVR instance running on my Linux server using the NextPVR Jellyfin plugin. The only reason I do this is so I can use the Jellyfin client on my Roku device. When watching a NextPVR recording via the Jellyfin plugin I notice it's using the following URL to access the recording stream (local private IP).

http://192.168.2.200:8866/live?recording=1049

Recording 1049 is in fact the recording I requested to play. The Jellyfin client does not play the stream. As a test I copied and pasted the URL into VLC and it also will not play. Then I pasted the URL in a browser it downloads the video to a file... all 5.8gig of the recording.

Is this normal behavior for the "live" URI? I expected it to be a stream. I should mention, I have a post recording script that transcodes the recording to a MKV file and then uses the NScriptHelper.dll to rename the recording in the NextPVR database. The recording plays perfectly in NextPVR and the Jellyfin web client but it seems to fail for anything that uses the "live" URI. Maybe I need to leave the recording in TS format?

Any suggestions?
Thanks
Ken

[mvallevand]

First did you try the Roku channel for NextPVR? Also did you read this https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid564960

Other than that without logs there are no problems.

Martin

[sub]

As a test I copied and pasted the URL into VLC and it also will not play.

You might need to tick 'Allow unauthenticated access for streaming Live TV / Recording' on the Settings->Access screen.

[TheKenR]

As a test I copied and pasted the URL into VLC and it also will not play.

You might need to tick 'Allow unauthenticated access for streaming Live TV / Recording' on the Settings->Access screen.

Yes, I do have that enabled.

Ken

[sub]

Try watching the stream in VLC, then collect the logs and post them. I'll take a look.

[TheKenR]

Thanks Sub.

Here is the VLC log with verbosity set to Debug. The first part of the log is opening the NextPVR link. At the end of the log I opened the MKV file directly which plays fine.

http://thekenr.com/temp/VLC.zip

Some interesting errors but I'm not really sure what to make of it.

main debug: creating demux: access='http' demux='ts' location='192.168.2.200:8866/live?recording=1049' file='\\192.168.2.200:8866\live'
main debug: looking for demux module matching "ts": 55 candidates
ts warning: this does not look like a TS stream, continuing

Then later...

main debug: `http://192.168.2.200:8866/live?recording=1049' successfully opened
ts warning: lost synchro
ts debug: skipping 1692 bytes of garbage
ts debug: skipping 1692 bytes of garbage
ts debug: skipping 1692 bytes of garbage
ts debug: skipping 1692 bytes of garbage

[mvallevand]

I suggest sub wanted to see the NextPVR logs, However this

Content-Type: video/MP2T

indicates that VLC is not trying to re-evaluate the content-type when NextPVR streams an mkv file.

Perhaps JellyFin has the same issue, on you use file name linking or the Roku channel for NextPVR as I suggested earlier.

Martin

[sub]

Yeah, I meant the NextPVR logs.

On the Settings->About page, click the 'Log Files' button.

[TheKenR]

First did you try the Roku channel for NextPVR?    

Martin,

I thought the Roku channel for NextPVR was dead after Roku disallowed custom apps? Is it back? I haven't searched on my Roku device lately but for sure if there is a NextPVR channel for Roku I would like to switch to it.

Ken

[TheKenR]

Yeah, I meant the NextPVR logs.

On the Settings->About page, click the 'Log Files' button.

Whoops!! Sorry I misunderstood. I must have been tired lol. 

I'm not sure if there are URLs in the logs that other people shouldn't see so I'll PM the file to you.

Thanks
Ken