mp4 recording won't play

[VCR58]

After remuxing the .ts file to .mp4, then deleting the .ts file, it seems that the NextPVR Roku app is not detecting the .mp4 recording and won't play it. I first tried playing the recording with the web app and then I tried playing it with the Roku app.

Here are the logs.

[mvallevand]

That is for sub

Code:

2021-04-10 12:23:25.826    [DEBUG][23]    Got request [10.239.92.184]: /services/service (recording.transcode.initiate)
2021-04-10 12:23:25.826    [DEBUG][23]    method=recording.transcode.initiate
2021-04-10 12:23:25.826    [DEBUG][23]    parameters:
2021-04-10 12:23:25.826    [DEBUG][23]       method: recording.transcode.initiate
2021-04-10 12:23:25.826    [DEBUG][23]       recording_id: 3772
2021-04-10 12:23:25.826    [DEBUG][23]       format: json
2021-04-10 12:23:25.826    [DEBUG][23]       sid: f452d047-f8d4-42f3-b6e6-4d9bf05e98b7
2021-04-10 12:23:25.826    [DEBUG][23]       client_ip: 10.239.92.184
2021-04-10 12:23:25.826    [DEBUG][23]       user_agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.114 Safari/537.36 Edg/89.0.774.75
2021-04-10 12:23:25.826    [DEBUG][23]       host_callback: 10.239.92.183:8866
2021-04-10 12:23:25.828    [DEBUG][23]    {"stat":"Failed","code":11,"msg":"Recording not found"}

Martin

[sub]

What are <AutoRemoveMissingRecordings> and <CheckForRenamedRecordings> set to in your config.xml?

[sub]

If both of those a true, then that call should have detected the .ts file wasn't there, but the same name with .mp4 was, and updated the database to reflect that. However, it is asking for recording.transcode.initiate, so the recording will be transcoded for playback, which I'm not sure is required for the Roku?

[mvallevand]

If both of those a true, then that call should have detected the .ts file wasn't there, but the same name with .mp4 was, and updated the database to reflect that. However, it is asking for recording.transcode.initiate, so the recording will be transcoded for playback, which I'm not sure is required for the Roku?

This would have been the web app the Roku app does not transcode recordings.  Some Roku devices do require audio AC3 transcoding prior to play in post processing.

Martin

[sub]

Ah right. Ok, he needs to check those settings.

[VCR58]

If both of those a true, then that call should have detected the .ts file wasn't there, but the same name with .mp4 was, and updated the database to reflect that. However, it is asking for recording.transcode.initiate, so the recording will be transcoded for playback, which I'm not sure is required for the Roku?

My config.xml shows
AutoRemoveMissingRecordings is false
CheckForRenamedRecordings is false

I changed these both to true, restarted the Linux server and I still could not play the mp4.

I switch the Roku player point to my Windows server and it can detect the mp4 file when the .ts file is missing. So it seems to only work with the Windows server.

[mvallevand]

I would avoid changing AutoRemoveMissingRecordings while you sort this out.

Martin

[sub]

If both of those a true, then that call should have detected the .ts file wasn't there, but the same name with .mp4 was, and updated the database to reflect that. However, it is asking for recording.transcode.initiate, so the recording will be transcoded for playback, which I'm not sure is required for the Roku?

My config.xml shows
AutoRemoveMissingRecordings is false
CheckForRenamedRecordings is false

I changed these both to true, restarted the Linux server and I still could not play the mp4.

All I'm going by is the above snippet of log, and looking at the code in NextPVR. With those setting set to true, it should now at least detect the mp4 file. I have no idea whether you'll be able to watch those in the web app. The only file format I test this stuff with is .ts. I'm happy to take a look and try to improve the behaviour with your mp4 files, but you'll need to supply updated logs so we can now see what is happening.

Honestly though, I suspect your mp4 files will only ever work in the web app if they have H264 video, and aac audio. If you've got non-web-friendly codecs, like MPEG2 etc, I wouldn't expect these to play in a web browser.

I switch the Roku player point to my Windows server and it can detect the mp4 file when the .ts file is missing. So it seems to only work with the Windows server.

The Roku client is doing stuff outside of NextPVR's knowledge, by creating an extra mp4 file along side the ts etc, and explicitly asking for a .mp4 file even though NextPVR only knows about a .ts file, so not really surprise this stuff is only really working in the Roku client, and not in the web app.

[VCR58]

Also, the web player for my Windows server will play the .mp4 file but only the audio plays. There is no video.

Edit: To get the web player to play anything I had to check "Allow unauthenticated access for streaming for Live TV Recordings"
Also, I found that the settings mentioned before where both "true" for the Windows config.xml by default (at least I did not change them).