[mythtv-users] New IPTV setup

[Per Lundberg]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Per Lundberg <perlun at gmail.com> wrote:

I did some more checking around tonight.

- Using mythtv with the "raw" IPTV streams from my ISP - worked good when
using -v most (on the backend), tailing the log and using tcpdump (on the
backend) to see the packets as they were flowing.
- With the same .m3u file, it didn't work correctly without -v most and/or
tcpdump. Possibly a timing related issue, I don't know. (and frankly, I'm
getting to the point where I don't even care.)
- Back with using -v most and tcpdump, it stopped working again. For some
reason.
- Using mythtv with vlm (VLC-based streaming) again, it seemed to work
better. It even works without -v most or -v channel (on the backend), which
is nice since it means I can use the pristine debian-multimedia init.d
script. I think I'll stick with this solution for now. Having a separate vlc
in between is not a major problem for me.

If anyone's interested, I've attached a .zip with the relevant files for my
ISP (Anvia in the Vasa-area in Finland). It may help someone, who knows.
anvia.m3u is the m3u file (which needs to be placed on a web server AFAIK),
anvia.conf is the VLC/VLM configuration file and vlm.sh is just a script
which starts up vlc with on-demand streaming for these channels.

Best regards,
Per Lundberg


> No need to correct you, I think you are completely correct. When I looked
> now, the file doesn't even seem to have been created (but I guess it may
> have been cleaned out somehow since yesterday, who knows).
>
> I did some more playing around - once again, I managed to get one channel
> working, but channel switches to other channels completely non-functional.
>
> Then I tried an idea found at this userpage on the Mythtv wiki:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User:Dekarl/How_to_remux_elementary_streams_to_look_like_a_Freebox
> The idea is to re-stream all the streams using VLC in streaming mode. I set
> this up, and started vlc. I tested it with my local PC (on WLAN using the
> same network), using VLC. Worked just fine. The URL was then something like
> rtsp://terah:5554/fst5 (terah is my mythtv backend host).
>
> Then I tried using the same URL in Mythtv. Guess what? "Error opening jump
> program file"...
>
> I stopped the mythtv backend and started it with some other options. Like
> this: "mythbackend -v channel -l
> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend-debug-channel.log"
> (normally, it is being run from an init.d script)
>
> And guess what? It all worked fine...?!?! :-) I could watch the channels
> from this IPTV source with no problems whatsoever.
>
> I don't know if I should be laughing or crying. Anyway, will have to test
> this further some other day. I want to see if I can get it running without
> the vlc proxy (but with channel logging turned on). If that works, the next
> step would be to enable channel logging in the init.d script. Does it make a
> difference? I don't know. But really, if it works, I think I'll accept it
> like that...
>



-- 
Best regards,
Per Lundberg
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