NEWA Web Services

[psycik]

So I've been playing with a Plex Channel to read from the NEWA web services (I guess a similar principal to X-NEWA_ that mvallevand wrote.

Ideally I'd like any transcoding do be done at the plex side - this is being it knows the capabilities of the client requesting a video and will transcode the video accordingly.

I'm just trying to get any video to work...before trying to tackle the web services (in python - of which my knowledge is pretty low).

I grabbed a download link (which seems to return an m3u) - and then took the URL from inside this.

I've make a plex channel that has this direct video URL

Code:

http://pvr.lan:8866/public/download.aspx?rid=_wEC3Qc*&path=_wFl&mode=1

So now I'm trying to get plex to transcode this, and there's been a bit of to-ing and fro-ing but have now come up upon this error

Code:

Length: 0  Type: video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts
Content length for unknown type video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts is invalid - aborting

Seems plex is reporting the stream is 0 length (or something else is happening) - do you know if the response to the download request includes the length?

Are there any other options to me? A straight HTTP download? or a streamed download (not quite sure what I'm asking for here).

My final option would be to transcode it at newa - but then it would probably end up with a secondary transcode at the plex end depending on the client.

[mvallevand]

For simply streaming a file why use NEWA which launches vlc to launch a new web server, the direct NextPVR interface to the oid

http:/ip:8866/live?recording=oid

is simpler

Martin

[psycik]

Oh, so it is. Is this what you did in x-newa?

[mvallevand]

I actual try and use file playback because it works with comskip, resume, play in-progress etc in xbmc but it does fall back to this. Transcoding uses NEWA and VLC

Martin

[psycik]

I actual try and use file playback because it works with comskip, resume, play in-progress etc in xbmc but it does falls backs to this. Transcoding use NEWA and VLC

Martin

So I grabbed an OID of an existing recording (986) and tried: http://192.168.1.60:8866/live?recording=966 on my local lan and was given a connection was reset message.

This isn't attempting live tv is it?

[mvallevand]

Yeah the page is odd but that is what I use, live is different. NextPVR only streams ts files.

Martin

[whurlston]

you said "OID of an existing recording (986)" but your URL says 966

[psycik]

you said "OID of an existing recording (986)" but your URL says 966

986 it should be, it's the first OID in teh scheduled reocording table with a file name...ahh - tried a different video and this one triggered a download dialog in firefox (maybe the first one 986 didn't exist).

So now in plex I see:

Code:

2013-08-28 13:32:32,022 (23e4) :  INFO (logkit:16) - Length: 278710752  Type: video/MP2T
2013-08-28 13:32:32,022 (23e4) :  INFO (logkit:16) - Content length for unknown type video/MP2T is invalid - aborting

not sure how the length in the first line is invalid (unless it's too large by chance?)

[mvallevand]

I think PMS wants m3u8 HLS files and you need toa add other types yourself.

Martin

[psycik]

I think PMS wants m3u8 HLS files.

Martin

Can we do this? I haven't investigated trying to access the file directly via a channel (as in I can load the .ts files into a plex library and this works - but calling the local file system from a channel I have not tried)