how to create my own IPTV channel

[Brucek2839]

OK, I asked this question some time ago on how to import my IP security camera into NextPVR.    Well I found the RTSC stream that my camera uses and I am able to view it in VLC player.  NextPvr just does not seem to like it.  
can someone shed some light on this for me?  Do I nede to re-encode it?  If so How would I go about this?  Someone lead me in the right direction.
Thank you,
Bruce

[mvallevand]

Basically if you can see it with ffmpeg or vlc you can get it into NextPVR V5 I wouldn't bother in V4.

That doesn't mean it is easy.

Martin

[Graham]

Do I nede to re-encode it?  If so How would I go about this?  Someone lead me in the right direction.

Have you seen this? ... https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/Extras

It might be that you can cfreate a ffmpeg command that receives data from your camera and outputs as described in the wiki page.

You might be able able to find another forum where folk can provide assistance with ffmpeg.

[mvallevand]

My suggestion always for extras is to download the full ffmpeg package and from it use the command ffplay to play any url your device provides. If you can do that it is pretty easy. If not, you might need to use Direct Show and that is where it becomes exper level. You mentioned rtsc but I assume you mean rtsp so likely you will have a good chance.

Martin

[Brucek2839]

Martin,
I have not tried this yet. But this is what I have gathered from reading i have done on extras. If you have had experience with FFmpeg do you think this would work?

Thank you,

<extras>
<channel name="driveway camera">
<command>ffmpeg.exe</command>
<args>-i rtsp://username:pasword@11.111.111.11:554/streaming/channels/1?transportmode=unicast/camera/index.m3u8 -vcodec copy -acodec -f mpegts - <args>

[mvallevand]

That looks reasonable did you try that command with ffplay?

for sure

- you should add the full path to ffmpeg
- it's not valid xml you need to close <args> with </args> not <args> and the close </channel> and </extras>
- I use -codec copy but only if it is h264/aac if it has some other codecs you might need to transcode especially if you want to play in the browser
- because of the ? you might need quotes around the url ffplay would show that.
- you need to add -v panic to the args so that text doesn't get captured

Martin

[Brucek2839]

Martin, I think I am getting way over my head. I should really give up on the idea of creating a channel for my dvr. I'm sad for now.
Thank you for you insight.
Bruce

[mvallevand]

I don't understand are you saying you can't figure out how to use ffplay from the command line it is

ffplay url

If that works I can create the extras file for you.

Martin