kjhedges 54 Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 So, Have the Emby server all set up, working great so decided to Subscribe for the few extra benefits. So we move onto the LiveTV part. I have working channels, (although the listings is in a mess at present) using m3u. The loop section is ticked as i believe is needed but the channel only plays for and records for average 30 seconds. I have tried the same m3u in VLC and works ok with loop button enabled on VLC. I have added the last embyserver log. Any advise would be appreciated embyserver.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37129 Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 Hi, can you attach the ffmpeg log as well? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjhedges 54 Posted May 6, 2018 Author Share Posted May 6, 2018 I just open a channel, it played for about 30seconds then closed. I have attached 2 ffmpeg that were created during process and latest embyserver Thanks ffmpeg-directstream-5a8bf1fa-fd64-4d32-8d34-1c53590baa15.txt ffmpeg-transcode-165fd043-5785-4b07-bac8-ff615df8b861.txt embyserver.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37129 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 In that directstream log the loop param was being applied. You're saying there was an issue there? The transcode log is unrelated. That's from a video file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjhedges 54 Posted May 6, 2018 Author Share Posted May 6, 2018 Hi, yes. The Directstream log was when played a channel which lasted for about 30 seconds I was viewing the guide in livetv. Clicked on a programme that was currently showing. Clicked Play and it played for about 30 seconds then just returned to the guide page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37129 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Can you try lowering the in-app quality setting to force a full transcode rather than remux? Try setting it to 1 mbps. I wonder if that will resolve it. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjhedges 54 Posted May 6, 2018 Author Share Posted May 6, 2018 Just change setting, ran again both for viewing and record. same thing. ffmpeg-directstream-e492b90e-51c5-4ed1-9106-a4d759179f06.txt record-transcode-7c532f1c-4e5f-450c-8604-1bb9b5900b5b.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37129 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 It looks like you didn't actually change the in-app quality setting. Where did you attempt to do that? Let's just play for now, not record, Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjhedges 54 Posted May 6, 2018 Author Share Posted May 6, 2018 (edited) When i play in the web app. there is a settings button within the play forward etc. I clicked the settings there and lowered to 480p - 1m Edit: Not sure if the atttached log is any more help ffmpeg-transcode-0c512a56-b5a2-41de-a9ab-477710c890db.txt Edited May 6, 2018 by kjhedges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37129 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Ok yes that time the quality was applied. Unfortunately I'm not sure what's going on. The error in the ffmpeg log suggests that it doesn't like something about the source stream. @@Waldonnis, what do you think? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjhedges 54 Posted May 6, 2018 Author Share Posted May 6, 2018 Ok thanks, in the meantime, i will try some other varied m3u's and post any differing results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37129 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Great, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldonnis 148 Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Looks like ffmpeg's disconnecting at seemingly random points (probably not actually random), and the default behaviour of ffmpeg is to not try to reconnect when it hits what it thinks is an EOF or an error. I tried the URL with ffplay and saw the same thing. Adding reconnect options (reconnect_at_eof, reconnect_streamed, and reconnect_delay_max) with appropriate values allowed it to reconnect after a delay, but it was still getting interrupted semi-frequently and the playback wasn't really easy to follow/watch at times. ffplay indicated that it reached an end of file at every point it choked, and I even saw some 403 and 404 errors when it tried to reconnect, so I'm guessing the provider has some latency issues in their encoding/writing process. I would even guess that the EOFs aren't really EOFs, but rather malformed frames/packets that were the result of reading the upstream ts file faster than it was being written. Not the first time I've seen this happen with live streams... For reference, here's the ffplay line I used to check it (the same reconnect options are available in ffmpeg as well): ffplay -reconnect_at_eof 1 -reconnect_streamed 1 -reconnect_delay_max 2 <URL> For grins, I tried -re without the reconnect options to see if slowing the streaming down to the input's framerate would help, but it didn't (figured it wouldn't, but it only took a few seconds to test so why not). Oddly, I got a few 502 errors when I tried to do that, so there are probably web service issues as well that the upstream provider really needs to work out. Even with the reconnect options, the output when testing encoding the stream was...not great. Some audio choppiness and what I suspected to be a bit of video looping as well (hard to tell given what they were showing at the time), so I'm not sure if reconnecting is a true solution in this case. I'll think about it in case there's another option that's just escaping me right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37129 Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Great, thanks for testing this out ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjhedges 54 Posted May 7, 2018 Author Share Posted May 7, 2018 Hi, Although I havent a real clue about all what waldonnis wrote above. I have since tried another few and the attached is a working remux with no problems that i saw viewing anyway. ffmpeg-remux-a648895a-e483-459d-92d7-4e3df56b17ec.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37129 Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Thanks for the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anielarias 23 Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 was this ever fixed ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37129 Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 21 hours ago, Anielarias said: was this ever fixed ? @Anielarias Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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