VicMoore 533 Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 I have learned how to play movies and tv shows from the EMBY library. I am now trying to play live content. To do so I have watched what the Web Client does. Before playing the movie It POSTS a request for PlayBackInfo to the server: http://192.168.1.201:8096/emby/Items/2564423/PlaybackInfo?UserId=e62c08bb99774ba794d6bcec82f76237&StartTimeTicks=0&IsPlayback=true&AutoOpenLiveStream=true&MaxStreamingBitrate=140000000&X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Chrome Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=20630783-23d6-40c3-9e69-414ea652ba5d&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.7.8.0&X-Emby-Token=1069c4b9b861424daf92bb47a7c0a050&reqformat=json It receives back the LiveStreamId, which it uses later to play the IPTV stream LiveStreamId: "06044cf0e6f93cdae5f285c9ecfaaeb4_01413a525b3a9622ce6fdf19f7dde354_45ff95b613fc94aee5320bdf127133dd" When I issue the same request for PlayBackInfo i don't get the LiveStreamId. Instead I get an OpenToken. OpenToken: "06044cf0e6f93cdae5f285c9ecfaaeb4_2564423_45ff95b613fc94aee5320bdf127133dd" How do I use this OpenToken to get the LiveStreamId so I can play the stream with hls.js? Vic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 HI, admittedly this whole sequence of communications is not well documented, so until I'm able to do that I would suggest mimicking the requests that the web app uses by monitoring them in the browser debugger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicMoore 533 Posted November 22, 2022 Author Share Posted November 22, 2022 Luke, can you explain what the OpenToken is and how it's used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 It used to be required with another request to open the live stream after /playbackinfo, but nowadays you can just add the param AutoOpenLiveStream=true to /playbackinfo and then I don't think you have to worry about it. You still have to close the live stream later though, but that gets handled for you when you report playback stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicMoore 533 Posted November 23, 2022 Author Share Posted November 23, 2022 Thanks Luke, that worked, now I have the same "master.m3u8" url as the web app. I give this url to hls.js program. But the live tv still does not play. I get an "error starting ffmpeg" error. I have attached the server log below. Vic embyserver (2).txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 And the ffmpeg log? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicMoore 533 Posted November 24, 2022 Author Share Posted November 24, 2022 (edited) Luke, both logs are attached below. The live channel, from which the logs below apply, did not play in my code or the Emby web app. I tried to play other channels and they worked OK. Vic embyserver (3).txt ffmpeg-transcode-38dee6ee-5931-4ad0-ad76-813fb397a9f5_1.txt Edited November 25, 2022 by VicMoore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Are you able to update to the latest version of the server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicMoore 533 Posted December 5, 2022 Author Share Posted December 5, 2022 yes - I will do that today and post new logs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicMoore 533 Posted December 6, 2022 Author Share Posted December 6, 2022 Good morning Luke... I apologize for the long delay. I took time to run several test to aid my description of the problem. Problem description: I have initialized Live TV on my Emby server. The M3U url is https://i.mjh.nz/PlutoTV/us.m3u8. the xml TV program guide is https://i.mjh.nz/PlutoTV/us.xml.gz The problem is experienced by both the Emby web client and my own client (my code is attached below if you need it). 1) The test begins by restarting the Emby Server 2) click on Live TV and select from the EPG any of the live TV channels and play it. 3) the channel will play as expected. Now select several other channel and play them. After doing this for a while go back and try playing some of the originally played channels. You will notice that some will not play. As you experiment, more channels wont play. Soon nothing will play. 4) the error is "error starting ffmpeg." The Emby server and ffmpeg logs are attached below. Payload Preview I have observed that the selected movie from the EPG always plays when the "PlaybackInfo" request to the server (made just before the master.msu8) takes 1 or 2 seconds (implying that the data is not from a cache). It seldom plays when the return is immediate (which could imply that it comes from a cache). This is just an observation. I turned off caching in my fetch requests and it didn't help things. 5) if you restart the Emby server and return to the EPG to play programs, you will discover that everything plays again. As before, playing programs degrades what will play. Restarting the server temporarily fixes the problem. I hope this helps. Vic ffmpeg-directstream-f617ad20-414b-4130-87a1-3144f793d4f5_1.txt embyserver.txt ffmpeg-directstream-247df480-9af6-48dd-8102-0156af75faf6_1.txt ffmpeg-directstream-3181c32e-ed74-4f3f-92f4-4c923b7e9fc6_1.txt tool_2.0c.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicMoore 533 Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 Luke... any progress on these logs? Vic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Are you still having an issue with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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