NextPVR can't open RAI (Italian main TV channels) links

[f2fg]

Hello, I can't view Rai Italian channels on NextPVR, but I made a test and I can view them with other software (for example they work on Kodi IPTV Simple Client).

An example stream address (Rai 1) is:

http://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relink...ozilla/5.0

This is the address of the original web stream:

https://www.raiplay.it/dirette/rai1

Does anybody have any suggestion on how to solve this issue?

[sub]

I can't open that stream. It's geo locked.

Post your logs though and I'll see if anything stands out.

[mvallevand]

Maybe share the Kodi debug log too.

Martin

[f2fg]

I can't open that stream. It's geo locked.

Post your logs though and I'll see if anything stands out.

Here you have the log, I just edited the IP address of the client with XX.YY.ZZ.GG, the rest is untouched.

Thank you very much for your help. I'll try to get the log from a working Kodi machine ASAP.

[f2fg]

Maybe share the Kodi debug log too.

Martin

Thank you Martin, this is the log from Kodi while streaming the channel correctly with IPTV Simple Client.

[mvallevand]

NextPVR can't directly deal with split audio and video feeds and I don't think it passes the required user-agent forward to ffmpeg

You might want to ask if ciccio ever succeeded here https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...pid=573496 I think the extra will be something like

Code:

<extras>
  <channel name="RAI">
    <command>ffmpeg</command>
    <args>-user_agent "Mozilla/5.0" -i  https://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relinkerServlet.htm?cont=2606803&amp;output=16 -codec copy -f mpegts -</args>
  </channel>
</extras>

Edit I changed the extra to make it work on Linux

If not I would probably need to see the Kodi debug logs

Extras are discussed here https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/Extras

Martin

[f2fg]

Thank you Martin. I can't find where I should create/edit the extras-fm.xml on Ubuntu, then I should be able to experiment.

I forgot to mention that everything was working until a few days ago, I think they changed something in the way the link redirects.

[mvallevand]

They may require headers now, in that previous example for ciccio they didn't

extras-rai.xml would go in /var/opt/nextpvr/ with the deb installer. You can add multiple channel block in there for the different cont= value RAI allow. I tested cont=1 the news channel since it isn't geo-blocked.

Martin

[f2fg]

It works Martin! Let me test a few things and I'll come back with a full config for future reference. Thank you very much for your time!

[f2fg]

Thank you for your help, extras are great! All the Rai channels work perfectly.

This is the full content of my /var/opt/nextpvr/extras-rai.xml file:

Code:

<extras>
  <channel name="Rai 1">
    <command>ffmpeg</command>
    <args>-user_agent "Mozilla/5.0" -http_seekable 0 -i  https://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relinkerServlet.htm?cont=2606803&amp;output=16 -codec copy -f mpegts - </args>
  </channel>
  <channel name="Rai 2">
    <command>ffmpeg</command>
    <args>-user_agent "Mozilla/5.0" -http_seekable 0 -i  https://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relinkerServlet.htm?cont=308718&amp;output=16 -codec copy -f mpegts - </args>
  </channel>
  <channel name="Rai 3">
    <command>ffmpeg</command>
    <args>-user_agent "Mozilla/5.0" -http_seekable 0 -i  https://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relinkerServlet.htm?cont=308709&amp;output=16 -codec copy -f mpegts - </args>
  </channel>
  <channel name="Rai 4">
    <command>ffmpeg</command>
    <args>-user_agent "Mozilla/5.0" -http_seekable 0 -i  https://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relinkerServlet.htm?cont=746966&amp;output=16 -codec copy -f mpegts - </args>
  </channel>
  <channel name="Rai 5">
    <command>ffmpeg</command>
    <args>-user_agent "Mozilla/5.0" -http_seekable 0 -i  https://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relinkerServlet.htm?cont=395276&amp;output=16 -codec copy -f mpegts - </args>
  </channel>
  <channel name="Rai Movie">
    <command>ffmpeg</command>
    <args>-user_agent "Mozilla/5.0" -http_seekable 0 -i  https://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relinkerServlet.htm?cont=747002&amp;output=16 -codec copy -f mpegts - </args>
  </channel>
  <channel name="Rai Premium">
    <command>ffmpeg</command>
    <args>-user_agent "Mozilla/5.0" -http_seekable 0 -i  https://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relinkerServlet.htm?cont=746992&amp;output=16 -codec copy -f mpegts - </args>
  </channel>
  <channel name="Rai News 24">
    <command>ffmpeg</command>
    <args>-user_agent "Mozilla/5.0" -http_seekable 0 -i  https://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relinkerServlet.htm?cont=1&amp;output=16 -codec copy -f mpegts - </args>
  </channel>
  <channel name="Rai Storia">
    <command>ffmpeg</command>
    <args>-user_agent "Mozilla/5.0" -http_seekable 0 -i  https://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relinkerServlet.htm?cont=746990&amp;output=16 -codec copy -f mpegts - </args>
  </channel>
   <channel name="Rai Scuola">
    <command>ffmpeg</command>
    <args>-user_agent "Mozilla/5.0" -http_seekable 0 -i  https://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relinkerServlet.htm?cont=747011&amp;output=16 -codec copy -f mpegts - </args>
  </channel>
  <channel name="Rai Sport">
    <command>ffmpeg</command>
    <args>-user_agent "Mozilla/5.0" -http_seekable 0 -i  https://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relinkerServlet.htm?cont=358025&amp;output=16 -codec copy -f mpegts - </args>
  </channel>
</extras>