Emby Live TV development Direct Playback is not really Direct it Remuxes / Trans Remuxes

[C0nw0nk 0]

Hello all,

The person who could answer this best would be Luke i think as one of the lead developers but others are welcome.

 

But in a nut shell the title says it all.

So when using Emby server for Live TV. For example you could use the M3U plugin.

 

The URL feed when using direct playback that you would expect the Emby Media player to be using is

https://domain-name/path-ts-file-1.ts

https://domain-name/path-ts-file-2.ts

https://domain-name/path-ts-file-3.ts

 

But it does not use the above.

It seems the Emby server remuxes the above urls instead of passing them directly to the media player.

So when you view the logs you see your emby server :8096 port and the stream url.

 

This would not be a problem but certain streams freeze as a result of this action and thus the best solution is to just pass the stream untouched directly to the media player.

I have been looking into the m3u plugins source code with jet brains dot peek (de-compiler) that i would happily modify the plugin so it passes the stream directly without remuxing.

 

But this is not where the url gets molded and thus if someone could point me where to save me time would be great or better yet if it is a planned feature for direct playback for live tv to be what it says and really direct play not "direct remuxing" it seems to be misleading.

 

Thanks keep up the awesome project looking forward to help with this.

[Abobader 3333]

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[ebr 15649]

Hi.  There is a lot of discussion about this around the forum.  There are a few reasons why all Live streams are run through your server.  Some technical and some not.

 

[C0nw0nk 0]

2 hours ago, ebr said:

Hi.  There is a lot of discussion about this around the forum.  There are a few reasons why all Live streams are run through your server.  Some technical and some not.

 

If its a common thing why not make it a option to just pass the url directly to the player without remuxing ?

 

Also care to elaborate on the technical and reasons seems like your post is a cliff hanger...

[Luke 39998]

The server's ability to share a source stream, pause and rewind are all accomplished by running it through the server. Additionally, there are app store policies to contend with. We can't verify the legality of your content, and if our app is used as a vehicle to contact known pirate iptv servers, then that could get us into a lot of hot water.

[C0nw0nk 0]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

The server's ability to share a source stream, pause and rewind are all accomplished by running it through the server. Additionally, there are app store policies to contend with. We can't verify the legality of your content, and if our app is used as a vehicle to contact known pirate iptv servers, then that could get us into a lot of hot water.

Well the case use i refer to is camera streams (cctv).

But with long open streams the remuxing is a headache (View the monitor and see a static frozen image.)

[Carlo 4552]

Have you tried the IPTV plugin for your camera use?

[ebr 15649]

1 hour ago, C0nw0nk said:

Anyway moding their M3U plugin and recompiling.

Hi.  Decompiling and modifying any part of our system that is not open-source is against our terms of use.

[C0nw0nk 0]

3 minutes ago, ebr said:

Hi.  Decompiling and modifying any part of our system that is not open-source is against our terms of use.

Emby is from Jellyfin.

 

I'd delete or lock thread myself but you replied and from your reply i understand that you would rather it remain public on the internet for the world to access.

Good luck with the project.

[ebr 15649]

Just now, C0nw0nk said:

Emby is from Jellyfin

??

[pwhodges 1848]

1 hour ago, C0nw0nk said:

Emby is from Jellyfin.

Wrong way round - Jellyfin is a fork of the last opensource version of Emby.

Paul