Use a http stream

[donschjr]

I have a http stream that I would like to use npvr to record occasionally at night, is there a way to use the iptv function to do this?

[mvallevand]

Is it is an mpeg m3u8 or ts stream?

Martin

[donschjr]

Stream is H264-mpeg4 AVC
audio is AC3
That is what I get when watching in VLC

[mvallevand]

First I don't now how you can live stream mpeg4, is this a static file?

Then this is not ideal as IPTV since NextPVR will always transcode it even to direct play clients. I'd create an extra for it and see how that works.

What do you get if you run

"C:\Program Files\NextPVR\Other\ffprobe" your_URL

Martin

[donschjr]

Protocol not found
It usually takes a bit for the stream to start in VLC

[mvallevand]

That looks more like you didn't type the url http://.... correctly.

Martin

[donschjr]

Redid it and got the same result, typed it in vlc and the stream came up. I guess did have a batch file that worked with vlc to record but I lost it in my last rebuild. I guess it's back to google to figure out how to write the batch file.

[mvallevand]

Ok try

curl -v http://...

or maybe also try quotes around your URL.

Martin

[donschjr]

input #0, mpegts, from "http:// my url"
Duration: N/A, start80538,177011, bitrate: N/A
Program 1
Metadata:
Service_name :
Service_provider:
Stream #0:0[0xc8](???): Audio: ac3 (AC-3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s
Stream #0:1[0x64]: Video: h264 (High) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p(progressive), 960x540 [SAR 545:546 DAR 4360:2457], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc

and then the codec data, curl-v didn't work but quotes did.

[mvallevand]

So it is mpeg-ts which is good. Are you running Win 10/11 with curl in the path?

Martin