Pluto TV.

[mvallevand]

Instructions for this have been added to the wiki

https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/Extra-PlutoTV

Martin

[2leftfeet]

1. If you followed the steps  in post #1 you will have lots of channels.  I would review the channels in the various NextPVR Groups that were create and see which Groups interest you then in the file  scripts/pluto/pluto-filter.lst

Change All=no and set all the groups you don't want to no as well.

2.  Pluto TV uses standard XMLTV updating in NextPVR

Windows

In your UpdateEPG.bat

python C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\plutotv\pluto.py xmltv   <---- shouldn't it be this?

In linux that is

UpdateEPG.sh file 

python3  /var/opt/nextpvr/scripts/plutotv/pluto.py xmltv   <----

Martin

[mvallevand]

Sorry yes thanks, it should. I've updated the original post.

Martin.

[2leftfeet]

Martin,  I went through the steps on my test server (including setting the filter list to news only), updated the EPG - all good to this point.  But when trying to watch, I am getting "Failed to start requested stream" messages.

[mvallevand]

What if you run

streamlink https://pluto.tv/live-tv/cnn best -O | "C:\Program Files\NextPVR\Other\ffplay.exe" -i pipe:

If that works did you copy ffmpeg as shown in the instruction?

Martin

[2leftfeet]

OK, I did mess up.  I read the instructions earlier and saw that I had to install streamlink, but when I actually did the install, I jumped over the part where I was supposed to install streamlink - big mistake on my part. 

subsequently, I now have installed streamlink and copied the ffmpeg file.  when trying to play a channel from a nextpvr web client, I am now getting "streaming failed, transcoding exited" messages. Although when running the command you suggest from the server, it does play but with the following error messages in the command window:  (although the error relates to missing audio devices, which would be expected since there is no audio because I am running a headless server.)

C:\Users\darry>streamlink https://pluto.tv/live-tv/cnn best -O | "C:\Program Files\NextPVR\Other\ffplay.exe" -i pipe:
ffplay version 4.2.2 Copyright © 2003-2019 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9.2.1 (GCC) 20200122
  configuration: --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-sdl2 --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libdav1d --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-gmp --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libmysofa --enable-libspeex --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --enable-libmfx --enable-amf --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-nvenc --enable-nvdec --enable-dxva2 --enable-avisynth --enable-libopenmpt
  libavutil      56. 31.100 / 56. 31.100
  libavcodec    58. 54.100 / 58. 54.100
  libavformat    58. 29.100 / 58. 29.100
  libavdevice    58.  8.100 / 58.  8.100
  libavfilter    7. 57.100 /  7. 57.100
  libswscale      5.  5.100 /  5.  5.100
  libswresample  3.  5.100 /  3.  5.100
  libpostproc    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100
[cli][info] Found matching plugin pluto for URL https://pluto.tv/live-tv/cnn
[cli][info] Available streams: 572k (worst), 997k, 1539k, 2142k, 3063k (best)
[cli][info] Opening stream: 3063k (muxed-stream)
Input #0, mpegts, from 'pipe:':    0KB vq=    0KB sq=    0B f=0/0
  Duration: N/A, start: 1.466667, bitrate: N/A
  Program 1
    Metadata:
      service_name    : Service01
      service_provider: FFmpeg
    Stream #0:0[0x100]: Video: h264 (High) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p(progressive), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 30 fps, 30 tbr, 90k tbn, 60 tbc
    Stream #0:1[0x101]: Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 91 kb/s
SDL_OpenAudio (2 channels, 48000 Hz): WASAPI can't find requested audio endpoint: Element not found.

SDL_OpenAudio (1 channels, 48000 Hz): WASAPI can't find requested audio endpoint: Element not found.

SDL_OpenAudio (2 channels, 44100 Hz): WASAPI can't find requested audio endpoint: Element not found.

SDL_OpenAudio (1 channels, 44100 Hz): WASAPI can't find requested audio endpoint: Element not found.

No more combinations to try, audio open failed
  13.30 M-V: -0.026 fd=  4 aq=    0KB vq=  253KB sq=    0B f=0/0
error: Error when writing to output: [Errno 32] Broken pipe, exiting
[cli][info] Stream ended
[cli][info] Closing currently open stream...
Exception ignored in: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='cp1252'>
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

[mvallevand]

Did you install for all users?

Martin

[2leftfeet]

yes

[mvallevand]

You may have to restart the server to get the new PATH.

Martin

[2leftfeet]

I got it to work based upon your hint about path.

It turns out that the ffmpeg.exe file needs to be copied to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Streamlink\bin", not "C:\Program Files (x86)\Streamlink".

C:\Program Files (x86)\Streamlink\bin is the path generated in the environment table.