IPTV Recordings not finishing - Too many retries...giving up

Ade_AV · 2023-12-02, 10:25 PM

Hi

Every now and then a recording will be cut short due to this (?)

content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
abandoning direct connection due to content-type: text/html
Unexpected error in HTTP input source: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NShared.Shim.InputSourceHTTP.WorkerThread(),

Snippet:

Code:
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075	[DEBUG][12]	About to start recording (1698 on 40): 
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075	[DEBUG][12]	(Recording is due to be stopped at 3/12/2023 6:20 AM)
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075	[DEBUG][12]	IPTV StartStream
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075	[DEBUG][12]	IPTV StartStream@2
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075	[DEBUG][12]	IPTV StartStream@3
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075	[DEBUG][12]	IPTV StartStream@3.1
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075	[DEBUG][12]	IPTV StartStream@3.2
2023-12-03 03:49:01.076	[DEBUG][12]	ConnectToURL: https://xxxx.com:443/.../368835.ts?....  
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636	[DEBUG][12]	content-type: video/mp2t
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636	[DEBUG][12]	IPTV StartStream@3.3
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636	[DEBUG][12]	IPTV StartStream@3.4
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636	[DEBUG][12]	IPTV StartStream@3.5
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636	[DEBUG][12]	IPTV StartStream@6
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636	[DEBUG][12]	IPTV StartStream@7
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636	[DEBUG][12]	direct stream
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636	[DEBUG][12]	IPTV StartStream@8
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636	[DEBUG][12]	Creating writer: /users/ade/recordings/
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636	[DEBUG][52]	HTTP input source starting
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639	[DEBUG][12]	Created Mutex: Global\NPVR-mutex-b14c441136077e2fa3096980740261f7
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639	[DEBUG][12]	Created map: /users/ade/recordings/
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639	[DEBUG][12]	StartStream [/users/ade/recordings/allocated handle: 3
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639	[DEBUG][12]	IPTV StartStream@9
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639	[DEBUG][12]	Started recording (1698:3:/users/ade/recordings/
2023-12-03 03:49:02.642	[DEBUG][12]	No /Users/Ade/.NPVR-data/scripts/ParallelProcessing.sh
2023-12-03 03:49:05.648	[DEBUG][12]	PowerManagement StayAwake (needs implementation)
2023-12-03 03:49:05.648	[DEBUG][12]	Active...staying awake

Then get a bunch of these:

2023-12-03 06:08:11.033	[DEBUG][52]	HTTP input source starting
2023-12-03 06:08:11.040	[DEBUG][52]	ConnectToURL: https://xxxxxxxxx.com:443/.../368835.ts?....  
2023-12-03 06:08:12.215	[DEBUG][52]	connected to: https://xxxxxxxxx.com:443/.../368835.ts?....  
2023-12-03 06:08:12.215	[DEBUG][52]	content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
2023-12-03 06:08:12.215	[DEBUG][52]	abandoning direct connection due to content-type: text/html
2023-12-03 06:08:12.230	[DEBUG][52]	Unexpected error in HTTP input source: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at NShared.Shim.InputSourceHTTP.WorkerThread()
2023-12-03 06:08:12.230	[DEBUG][52]	HTTP input source starting
2023-12-03 06:08:12.231	[DEBUG][52]	ConnectToURL: https://xxxxxxxxx.com:443/.../368835.ts?....  
2023-12-03 06:08:12.914	[DEBUG][52]	content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
2023-12-03 06:08:12.914	[DEBUG][52]	abandoning direct connection due to content-type: text/html
2023-12-03 06:08:12.928	[DEBUG][52]	Unexpected error in HTTP input source: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at NShared.Shim.InputSourceHTTP.WorkerThread()
2023-12-03 06:15:29.893	[DEBUG][52]	Too many retries...giving up
2023-12-03 06:30:01.241	[DEBUG][12]	Stopping recording (1698 on 40). Past end time of recording. 3
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247	[DEBUG][12]	StopStream@1
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247	[DEBUG][12]	StopStream@2
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247	[DEBUG][12]	StopStream@3
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247	[DEBUG][12]	StopStream handle: 3
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247	[DEBUG][12]	Closing TSWriter....: /users/ade/recordings/xxxx.ts
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247	[ERROR][12]	writer.Close() did not complete in a timely fashion
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248	[DEBUG][12]	Close@2
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248	[DEBUG][12]	Closing mapAccessor
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248	[DEBUG][12]	Closing mapMMF
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248	[DEBUG][12]	Closing mapFileStream
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248	[DEBUG][12]	deleting /users/ade/recordings/xxxxx.ts.map
2023-12-03 06:30:01.250	[DEBUG][12]	Close@exit
2023-12-03 06:30:01.250	[DEBUG][12]	StopStream@exit
2023-12-03 06:30:01.251	[DEBUG][12]	StopStream@exit
2023-12-03 06:30:01.259	[DEBUG][12]	StoreMetaData@exit
2023-12-03 06:30:02.767	[DEBUG][12]	PowerManagement AllowSleep (needs implementation)
2023-12-03 06:30:02.767	[DEBUG][12]	No longer active

mvallevand · 2023-12-02, 10:39 PM

Sending snippets is a very bad habit please send the zipped logs next time. In this case we do see the problem, the URL you are providing is returning a web page not a video stream. Perhaps because of too many connections?

2023-12-03 06:08:12.215 [DEBUG][52] content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Martin

Ade_AV · 2023-12-02, 11:47 PM

Thanks, I will contact the IPTV provider and see if they can provide further info

Ade_AV · 2023-12-05, 07:08 AM

IPTV provider unsure of what's happening, suggests maybe the URL should redirect or the stream restarts causing the connection to drop

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