NEWA - using buffer file produced by /public/VLCService?Channel=

[bgowland]

I've been testing out a few things with the Swagger "Try it out" feature for playing things using VLC and nDroid.

Using /public/VLCService/StreamByScheduleOID is straight-forward enough as I only have to pass http://<server-ip>:7648 to whatever Android media player app the user chooses. Limited testing but good results so far.

When streaming live tv with /public/VLCService?Channel=X however the value of "StreamLocation" in the JSON response shows an absolute path local to my npvr server ("D:\\nPVR\\LiveTV\\x-newa-live.192.168.0.10.ts" for example).

I've got it working for brief tests by using the Videos view in nDroid and navigating to the Live TV folder and selecting the "x-newa-live.192.168.0.10.ts" buffer file.

The tests are "brief" because of the need to regularly send the "heartbeat" to keep the whole thing alive (and I can't do that yet). So basically, what were the thoughts behind designing it this way, i.e., what sort of client was it intended for? Just curious really in case I'm missing something about the way it works.

Cheers,
Brian

[mvallevand]

Using /public/VLCService/StreamByScheduleOID is straight-forward enough as I only have to pass http://<server-ip>:7648 to whatever Android media player app the user chooses. Limited testing but good results so far.

UJB doesn't provide any uncontrolled streaming that could fill up a disk when async streaming takes place, so it is either by show which should stop at end of the show or file with the heartbeat.

When streaming live tv with /public/VLCService?Channel=X however the value of "StreamLocation" in the JSON response shows an absolute path local to my npvr server ("D:\\nPVR\\LiveTV\\x-newa-live.192.168.0.10.ts" for example).

That is showing as a drive letter because you don't have your live tv set as a CIFS share, if you did it would be \\serverip\sharename\x-newa-live.192.168.0.10.ts can often be passed to a Windows player but for you I'd recommend //serverip/sharename/x-newa-live.192.168.0.10.ts for normal slash used in the rest of the computer world. This is often seekable.

If you don't share or you are out in the wild you can just pass the original name to sub's filename streaming API http://serverip:8866/stream?f=\\serverip...68.0.10.ts you don't need to encode it because it is in a safe format. This might be seekable or might not work, XBMC won't work because of the way this returns data. More work needs to be done in the next version to modify the APIS since sub says that the PCH requires this, and he did need to modify streaming at one point. I suggest something like appending &mode=http vs the default (which would be &mode=pch)

Martin

[bgowland]

That is showing as a drive letter because you don't have your live tv set as a CIFS share, if you did it would be \\serverip\sharename\x-newa-live.192.168.0.10.ts can often be passed to a Windows player but for you I'd recommend //serverip/sharename/x-newa-live.192.168.0.10.ts for normal slash used in the rest of the computer world. This is often seekable.

I didn't realise the JSON response would be different if the folder was shared - I had thought about sharing for testing purposes but I don't really want to impose that as a requirement and would much rather do things through the web interface. I'd forgotten about /stream but had it in the back of my mind there was a way of doing it.

Cheers,
Brian

[mvallevand]

I didn't realise the JSON response would be different if the folder was shared - I had thought about sharing for testing purposes but I don't really want to impose that as a requirement and would much rather do things through the web interface. I'd forgotten about /stream but had it in the back of my mind there was a way of doing it.

Cheers,
Brian

What I do in X-NEWA is check if the location starts with \\ and transforms it to smb://serverip/sharename/x-newa-live.192.168.0.10.ts I expect some Android players support smb:// protocol without mounting and if the existence check fails you can still fall back on streaming.

Martin

[UncleJohnsBand]

I've been testing out a few things with the Swagger "Try it out" feature for playing things using VLC and nDroid.

Cheers,
Brian

I really recommend using the Advanced REST Client for Chrome to test the API.... you can create a project and save various scenarios.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...o?hl=en-US

[bgowland]

Thanks I'll take a look.