IPTV Recordings not finishing - Too many retries...giving up

[Ade_AV]

Hi

Every now and then a recording will be cut short due to this (?) 

content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
abandoning direct connection due to content-type: text/html
Unexpected error in HTTP input source: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NShared.Shim.InputSourceHTTP.WorkerThread(), 

Snippet:

Code:

2023-12-03 03:49:01.075    [DEBUG][12]    About to start recording (1698 on 40):
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075    [DEBUG][12]    (Recording is due to be stopped at 3/12/2023 6:20 AM)
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075    [DEBUG][12]    IPTV StartStream
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075    [DEBUG][12]    IPTV StartStream@2
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075    [DEBUG][12]    IPTV StartStream@3
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075    [DEBUG][12]    IPTV StartStream@3.1
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075    [DEBUG][12]    IPTV StartStream@3.2
2023-12-03 03:49:01.076    [DEBUG][12]    ConnectToURL: https://xxxx.com:443/.../368835.ts?.... 
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636    [DEBUG][12]    content-type: video/mp2t
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636    [DEBUG][12]    IPTV StartStream@3.3
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636    [DEBUG][12]    IPTV StartStream@3.4
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636    [DEBUG][12]    IPTV StartStream@3.5
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636    [DEBUG][12]    IPTV StartStream@6
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636    [DEBUG][12]    IPTV StartStream@7
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636    [DEBUG][12]    direct stream
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636    [DEBUG][12]    IPTV StartStream@8
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636    [DEBUG][12]    Creating writer: /users/ade/recordings/
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636    [DEBUG][52]    HTTP input source starting
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639    [DEBUG][12]    Created Mutex: Global\NPVR-mutex-b14c441136077e2fa3096980740261f7
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639    [DEBUG][12]    Created map: /users/ade/recordings/
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639    [DEBUG][12]    StartStream [/users/ade/recordings/allocated handle: 3
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639    [DEBUG][12]    IPTV StartStream@9
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639    [DEBUG][12]    Started recording (1698:3:/users/ade/recordings/
2023-12-03 03:49:02.642    [DEBUG][12]    No /Users/Ade/.NPVR-data/scripts/ParallelProcessing.sh
2023-12-03 03:49:05.648    [DEBUG][12]    PowerManagement StayAwake (needs implementation)
2023-12-03 03:49:05.648    [DEBUG][12]    Active...staying awake

Then get a bunch of these:

2023-12-03 06:08:11.033    [DEBUG][52]    HTTP input source starting
2023-12-03 06:08:11.040    [DEBUG][52]    ConnectToURL: https://xxxxxxxxx.com:443/.../368835.ts?.... 
2023-12-03 06:08:12.215    [DEBUG][52]    connected to: https://xxxxxxxxx.com:443/.../368835.ts?.... 
2023-12-03 06:08:12.215    [DEBUG][52]    content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
2023-12-03 06:08:12.215    [DEBUG][52]    abandoning direct connection due to content-type: text/html
2023-12-03 06:08:12.230    [DEBUG][52]    Unexpected error in HTTP input source: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at NShared.Shim.InputSourceHTTP.WorkerThread()
2023-12-03 06:08:12.230    [DEBUG][52]    HTTP input source starting
2023-12-03 06:08:12.231    [DEBUG][52]    ConnectToURL: https://xxxxxxxxx.com:443/.../368835.ts?.... 
2023-12-03 06:08:12.914    [DEBUG][52]    content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
2023-12-03 06:08:12.914    [DEBUG][52]    abandoning direct connection due to content-type: text/html
2023-12-03 06:08:12.928    [DEBUG][52]    Unexpected error in HTTP input source: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at NShared.Shim.InputSourceHTTP.WorkerThread()
2023-12-03 06:15:29.893    [DEBUG][52]    Too many retries...giving up
2023-12-03 06:30:01.241    [DEBUG][12]    Stopping recording (1698 on 40). Past end time of recording. 3
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247    [DEBUG][12]    StopStream@1
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247    [DEBUG][12]    StopStream@2
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247    [DEBUG][12]    StopStream@3
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247    [DEBUG][12]    StopStream handle: 3
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247    [DEBUG][12]    Closing TSWriter....: /users/ade/recordings/xxxx.ts
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247    [ERROR][12]    writer.Close() did not complete in a timely fashion
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248    [DEBUG][12]    Close@2
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248    [DEBUG][12]    Closing mapAccessor
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248    [DEBUG][12]    Closing mapMMF
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248    [DEBUG][12]    Closing mapFileStream
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248    [DEBUG][12]    deleting /users/ade/recordings/xxxxx.ts.map
2023-12-03 06:30:01.250    [DEBUG][12]    Close@exit
2023-12-03 06:30:01.250    [DEBUG][12]    StopStream@exit
2023-12-03 06:30:01.251    [DEBUG][12]    StopStream@exit
2023-12-03 06:30:01.259    [DEBUG][12]    StoreMetaData@exit
2023-12-03 06:30:02.767    [DEBUG][12]    PowerManagement AllowSleep (needs implementation)
2023-12-03 06:30:02.767    [DEBUG][12]    No longer active

[mvallevand]

Sending snippets is a very bad habit please send the zipped logs next time. In this case we do see the problem, the URL you are providing is returning a web page not a video stream. Perhaps because of too many connections?

2023-12-03 06:08:12.215 [DEBUG][52] content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Martin

[Ade_AV]

Thanks, I will contact the IPTV provider and see if they can provide further info

[Ade_AV]

IPTV provider unsure of what's happening, suggests maybe the URL should redirect or the stream restarts causing the connection to drop