Intermittent Live TV Playback Error

[Mbiboy 2]

Hello,

I get this error when starting an IPTV stream. "Playback Error Exception of type 'MediaBrowser.Common.Extensions.ResourceNotFoundException' was thrown."

This issue is intermittent. Occasionally, about every 5-10 attempts, it is successful, and the stream plays. Additionally, playing the m3u stream URL from VLC player works every time so I feel the issue is on my side.

I have added agent and referrer http headers with no change. Server logs attached with debug mode. You will see the last entry in the log is successful playback after repeated failure. No changes made.

I did notice the my m3u URL in the log has some invisible characters added to it when pasted into notepad++. Not sure if this is relevant or just a logging thing.
Version 4.8.10.0

embyserver.txt ffmpeg-directstream-2efa0c95-e47f-47e5-91e5-5a2463a5db77_1.txt

Edited January 24 by Mbiboy

[Luke 39319]

HI, the error in your log suggests that the m3u has changed enough since the last guide refresh that the server couldn't locate the channel that you wanted to play. Try refreshing the guide data and then playing again.

[Mbiboy 2]

37 minutes ago, Luke said:

HI, the error in your log suggests that the m3u has changed enough since the last guide refresh that the server couldn't locate the channel that you wanted to play. Try refreshing the guide data and then playing again.

Guide refresh completed with no change.

[Luke 39319]

What exactly did you do? What exactly happened?

[Mbiboy 2]

2 minutes ago, Luke said:

What exactly did you do? What exactly happened?

Restarted Emby server since guide refresh happens on startup. Playback has the same result. It works about every 3 4 attempts.

[Mbiboy 2]

@LukeAny additional thoughts? Still having intermittent failures.

[Mbiboy 2]

Update: I fixed the intermittent IPTV failures by incorporating HLS-Proxy into my setup. The stream is buffered/cached prior to hitting Emby server. I'm not sure what the issue is but the fact Emby sometimes plays and sometimes does not is concerning.

[Luke 39319]

Hi, thanks for the update. We are looking into this.