More streaming woes

[Elmo Putney]

Hope you can help me out, I've used newa for scheduling stuff but never dabbled with streaming or downloading - but now i have an emergency. I'll be in France for the first f1 race - no problem i thought it'll be on French tv. To my suprise i checked the schedules today and learnt it has gone pay tv in France.

So I'm assuming i'll have wifi and my android tablet so i thought my best option would be to use newa - but i'm damned if i can get it working. I can download the raw recording from newa but the size will be too big so ideally i need it to transcode and download the file for viewing later.

Server is win7 x64 and i'm running vlc 2.0.3 x32 & newa 1.31 if i try streaming from newa on a localhost i can see vlc fire up in task manager but nothing else happens. Vlc uses no cpu and i can't connect to the stream.

I've tried a lot of the things in this thread as it seems similar:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...me-network

Help me ujb you're my only hope!

[Graham]

Is it these in config.xml?

<AllowRemoteTranscode>false</AllowRemoteTranscode>
<AllowRemoteStreaming>false</AllowRemoteStreaming>

[Elmo Putney]

I wish it was but they are both set to true.

As a first step I'm trying to get it working from a browser on the server just using localhost but no joy so far.

[Graham]

Sooner or later someone is going to ask you to post logs so it might as well be me. Should there be a web.log as well as the usual suspects?

[Elmo Putney]

Logs attached, this was a clean boot going straight to newa on the server using chrome. Then an attempt to stream a recording using the transcode settings suggested in the previous thread I linked to.

On hitting play in the vlc server control I got the following error:

Code:

Server Error in '/' Application.

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:8080

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:8080

Source Error:


Line 168:            }
Line 169:            string result = string.Empty;
Line 170:            using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
Line 171:            {
Line 172:                using (Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())

Source File: c:\Users\Public\NPVR\web\App_Code\Classes\StreamerPost.cs    Line: 170

Stack Trace:


[SocketException (0x274d): No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:8080]
   System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress) +254
   System.Net.Sockets.Socket.InternalConnect(EndPoint remoteEP) +37
   System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Socket s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address, ConnectSocketState state, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Int32 timeout, Exception& exception) +427

[WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server]
   System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() +874
   N_EWA.classes.StreamerPost.PostData(String url, String postData) in c:\Users\Public\NPVR\web\App_Code\Classes\StreamerPost.cs:170
   N_EWA.classes.StreamerPost.Post() in c:\Users\Public\NPVR\web\App_Code\Classes\StreamerPost.cs:116
   N_EWA.Player2.playStream(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:\Users\Public\NPVR\web\public\Player2.aspx.cs:1087
   N_EWA.Player2.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:\Users\Public\NPVR\web\public\Player2.aspx.cs:69
   System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e) +14
   System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Callback(Object sender, EventArgs e) +43
   System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +73
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +52
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +2184

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.5466; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.5456

EDIT: now with attachment.

[gEd]

Do you have your firewall set to allow nrecord.exe to accept/send requests on tcp and udp (or disable firewall to test)

[Elmo Putney]

I have the firewall on that machine off. I assume using the local ip to login to newa from the server doesn't bother the router firewall.

In other words typing the server ip 192.168.1.xxx:8866 into a browser on the server does not involve a firewall if windows firewall is off?...... Or is router still playing a part?

[UncleJohnsBand]

Is it these in config.xml?

<AllowRemoteTranscode>false</AllowRemoteTranscode>
<AllowRemoteStreaming>false</AllowRemoteStreaming>

I wish it was but they are both set to true.

As a first step I'm trying to get it working from a browser on the server just using localhost but no joy so far.

These settings only impact NPVR native (non-VLC) streaming of live Tv which can be accessed via the Watch Now link on the channel in the EPG on guide2.aspx.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Are you launching VLC as a plugin or a externally? plugin is sketchy at best.....I always recommend to set to launch external player.

Launching VLC externally should not require for you to do anything once VLC launches.....it should automatically start playing.