IPTV Device & HTTP Multicast Streaming

[Peta_N]

Hi,
please can you add support for HTTP network streaming? I have no udp streaming source and in VLC media player HTTP streaming works fine for me (for example http://10.176.15.15/nova)

Thanks a lot.

[Graham]

This is from the Announcement of an earlier release and will still be present in the current release (Rel. 2.5.5 --- 5 August 2012).

web server /transcode url can now stream recordings using http://<server>:8866/transcode?recor...6&bitrate=900k format

It is not something that I have ever used so this is all I know. Good Luck.

[mvallevand]

There used to be native support for IPTV but sub recently took it out because it wasn't being used but I think it was UDP multicast If it is http streaming this can be done with the NetworkRecorder plugin. I'll wait for sub to speak up and and if you need http I will explain it further. Can each stream be recorded independently or only one at a time?

Martin

[Peta_N]

Yes, I can record multiple streams simultaneously (with VLC). I'll try NetworkRecorder plugin...

[mvallevand]

The documentation for it is all over the place, it might be easier to wait. For now you are going to need NetTarget and the version in a long thread on the Dreambox with NetworkRecorder. For multiple streams, you will need one xml block per stream. Again maybe sub's IPTV support would be simpler?

Martin

[sub]

The documentation for it is all over the place, it might be easier to wait. For now you are going to need NetTarget and the version in a long thread on the Dreambox with NetworkRecorder. For multiple streams, you will need one xml block per stream. Again maybe sub's IPTV support would be simpler?

I'm guessing my earlier IPTV stuff wouldn't have helped with this. It was UDP based, and required the content to be transport stream. What type of video and content is this nova stream carrying?

[Peta_N]

Stream is IMHO standard MPEG-2 transport stream:

Code:

MPEG-2 PS/SS (PES Container)
video: MPEG-2, 720*576, 25fps, 16:9, 2950000bps, vbv 112
audio: MPEG-1, Layer2, 48000Hz, stereo, 192kbps, noCRC

Situaition is as follows:
on linux server we have 3 DVB-T cards for 3 multiplexes. Using getstream-poempel we are streaming to local network. There is example of configuration for mutiplex 2:

Code:

nohup /usr/local/getstream-poempel/getstream -a 1 \
    -f /usr/local/getstream-poempel/dvb-t-2 \
    -d 1 \
    -p 513:127.0.0.1:6201/nova \
    -p 514:127.0.0.1:6205/novacinema \
    -p 773:127.0.0.1:6202/prima \
    -p 770:127.0.0.1:6203/prima2 \
    -p 2049:127.0.0.1:6204/barrandov &> /dev/null &

#cat /usr/local/getstream-poempel/dvb-t-2

NOVA CINEMA:634000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_4:HIERARCHY_NONE:401:411:514
NOVA:634000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_4:HIERARCHY_NONE:101:111:513
BARRANDOV TV:634000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_4:HIERARCHY_NONE:301:311:2049
Prima COOL:634000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_4:HIERARCHY_NONE:501:511:770
PRIMA:634000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_4:HIERARCHY_NONE:201:211:769
Prima family:634000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_2_3:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_4:HIERARCHY_NONE:601:611:773

In apache configuration in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default is following section:

Code:

ProxyPass /nova http://127.0.0.1:6201/nova
    ProxyPassReverse /nova http://127.0.0.1:6201/nova
    ProxyPass /novacinema http://127.0.0.1:6205/novacinema
    ProxyPassReverse /novacinema http://127.0.0.1:6205/novacinema
    ProxyPass /prima http://127.0.0.1:6202/prima
    ProxyPassReverse /prima http://127.0.0.1:6202/prima
    ProxyPass /prima2 http://127.0.0.1:6203/prima2
    ProxyPassReverse /prima2 http://127.0.0.1:6203/prima2
    ProxyPass /barrandov http://127.0.0.1:6204/barrandov
    ProxyPassReverse /barrandov http://127.0.0.1:6204/barrandov

I'm admin of this server but not owner so I can't change this setting...

[mvallevand]

I have updated the wiki http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...rkRecorder with a newer version, download the dll and NetTarget and follow the installation steps 1-6 exactly. I'd add one station at at time always following 1-6 and always backup your database.

The xml file you need will be

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Settings>
  <PluginSettings>
    <NetworkRecorder>
      <FriendlyName>Nova</FriendlyName>
      <host>10.176.15.15</host>
      <port>80</port>
      <delay>10000</delay>
      <stream>true</stream>
    </NetworkRecorder>
  </PluginSettings>
</Settings>

If you have problems with this upload your logs.

Once this is done you need to run NetTarget. Copy it with the NextPVR program files and run

Code:

NetTarget -o ### -t /nova

the ### is the number that shows in NextPVR setup under Devices for NetworkRecorder in the Tuner column

Martin

[Peta_N]

Work great! Thank you so much. And now, how I can add next channels, please?

[mvallevand]

Following step 1-6 you can now add each of the new channels after nova ie

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Settings>
  <PluginSettings>
    <NetworkRecorder>
      <FriendlyName>Nova</FriendlyName>
...
    </NetworkRecorder>
    <NetworkRecorder>
      <FriendlyName>novacinema</FriendlyName>
      <host>10.176.15.15</host>
      <port>80</port>
      <delay>10000</delay>
      <stream>true</stream>
    </NetworkRecorder>
  </PluginSettings>
</Settings>

And then run NetTartget on the next ####

You could do them all under one tuner without touch the xml file, but that would prevent you from recording more than own stream at a time. You might want to play with the delay to see what works, if your proxy server is good, you might be able to shorten it.

Martin