Recent streaming issue with Matt Huisman Aus TV streams

[ballfam]

I don't think the  ffmpeg issue is  speed, it occasionally pops up this warning:

Code:

skipping 1 segments ahead, expired from playlists

Seems like it might have the same issue as NextPVR, it's not reading the cookie, so it starts to re-stream, which causes a jump ahead in the stream.

[mvallevand]

So I wrote a rough python based extra and I was getting up to the 896x504 stream everything else is not 1x remuxing. I then switched the VPN to UDP and I can get the 720p feeds so VPN bandwidth must be part of the issue.

Figuring bandwidth could be the issue I tried again in NextPVR with the kodi m3u8 and it does use the user-agent from that file and it plays.

Code:

2022-12-23 20:44:41.729    [DEBUG][203]    M3U8 (https://i.mjh.nz/.../537.36&seekable=0&referer=%20?....  [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])
2022-12-23 20:44:41.729    [VERBOSE][203]    Initializing M3U8Downloader for url:https://i.mjh.nz/7-syd1.m3u8|user-agent=Mozilla/5.0%20%28Windows%20NT%2010.0%3B%20Win64%3B%20x64%29%20AppleWebKit/537.36%20%28KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko%29%20Chrome/98.0.4758.102%20Safari/537.36&seekable=0&referer=%20
2022-12-23 20:44:41.729    [VERBOSE][203]    Will use http headers:
2022-12-23 20:44:41.729    [VERBOSE][203]      user-agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.102 Safari/537.36
2022-12-23 20:44:41.729    [VERBOSE][203]      seekable : 0
2022-12-23 20:44:41.729    [VERBOSE][203]      referer :

Martin

[sub]

... but I can't get any traction on channel 7. I added the file in /var/opt/nextpvr/extras-seven.xml (owned by nextpvr), but I don't think it is getting picked up. I'm just going in to the device in settings->devices and choosing  "Update Channels", but It doesn't seem to make any difference. Do I have to specifically import the extras file somewhere or is it supposed to be picked up by virtue of the fact that it uses the same channel name?

My M3U contains:

Code:

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="mjh-7-syd1" channel-id="mjh-7-syd1" tvg-logo="https://i.mjh.nz/.images/7-syd1.png" tvg-chno="7" group-title="Sydney" ,Seven
https://i.mjh.nz/7-syd1.m3u8|user-agent=Mozilla/5.0%20%28Windows%20NT%2010.0%3B%20Win64%3B%20x64%29%20AppleWebKit/537.36%20%28KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko%29%20Chrome/98.0.4758.102%20Safari/537.36&seekable=0&referer=%20

I've just got back to a bit of free time, so just took another look at this.

I just created simple m3u file with your channel definition above and have imported it with the IPTV device. I'm using nordvpn connected to Brisbane. I've been watching it successfully for the last 8 minutes. I'm viewing it in VLC with http://localhost:8866/live?channel=7.

It doesn't not seem to play in the web browser though. I'm just checking why.

[sub]

The stream does play in uiclient.html (but this requires a fast server), but not in player.html

[sub]

I've attached an NShared.dll which more reliably gives me video in player.html with this Seven stream. It seems to relate to the source stream not playing nicely with the default 3 second long segments NextPVR was producing for the web player. (probably because of low frequency of I-frames or low frequency of PAT/PMT tables in the stream).

[ballfam]

Yeah, channel 7 suddenly seems to work; I switched to the Kodi feeds yesterday, and I'm sure it was still broken, but suddenly it seems to be OK.

Maybe they changed the feed back to the old format again, or maybe the Kodi user agent helped, not sure.

So Seven is back working with the Kodi feeds, Nine was fixed by Matt with his "alt" versions of the None feeds (not sure what he did to fix it); Ten was fixed by the sbiddle work-around (thanks for that), and even SBS seems to have been resolved with Matt's latest Kodi feeds; it now displays some generic filler sign about ads while the ads are on.

I'm back in business....wohoo

I don't really care about the web player, provided the recordings are working. I'm running on Linux, so not sure I can use the DLL anyway.

Thanks for all you help guys, as always, great support.

[sub]

All good.

I'm pretty sure that NShared.dll will help some, so not wasted effort.

I'm running on Linux, so not sure I can use the DLL anyway.

For the record - yep, it's used on Linux installs too.

[sbiddle]

Just to get back to this as I have been away and been so busy I haven't really been watching a lot of TV!

SBS doesn't seem to work for me using live or playback using the NextPVR Windows app but it does work fine via the web browser. Even a recording that plays back fine from the browser shows a few minutes duration in the app.

Have you used the Windows app ballfam or 100% Linux?

[mvallevand]

Do you mean the NextPVR browser client or another web app?

Martin

[sbiddle]

Do you mean the NextPVR browser client or another web app?

Martin

NextPVR web clients.

In the default UI client live and playback work fine. In your uiclient live and playback both work fine however the duration timestamp is wrong so it's not possible to skip through it.

I'll write up a little more when I get a chance to look at things later on.