Milldor 14 Posted August 2, 2019 Posted August 2, 2019 Whenever I try to watch live TV through the Emby Theater app I get a spinning circle for a few minutes before the app freezes. The app is from the Emby site, not the Windows store. Live TV will playback on my phone and through the web player on any device. It will not play through androiid TV on an Nvidia Shield. I use an HDhomerun tuner. The tuner will play using NextPVR, and the HDhomerun app. E,by theatre will still not play LiveTV if using the NPVR plugin in Emby server, however I can still use the web player or my phone. In the Emby server log file it shows the stream being accessed then writing to a transcoding file. At the point where the stream is to be played by Emby Theater it seems to try and access the local loopback address rather than the address of the server or tuner. Beyond this problem, opening a TV stream through Emby is hugely slow compared to NextPVR. NPVR takes a second or 2 while emby always takes 10 seconds or more. I have attached the part of the server log from just before trying to watch LiveTV. log..txt
Luke 39664 Posted August 2, 2019 Posted August 2, 2019 Hi there, can you please attach the complete emby server log? thanks !
Milldor 14 Posted August 20, 2019 Author Posted August 20, 2019 Any updates on this? Emby theater will not even work when using the nextpvr plug in. Which works immediately in kodi.
Luke 39664 Posted August 20, 2019 Posted August 20, 2019 Hi there, have you tried setting up the HD Homerun directly in Emby, without using next pvr?
Milldor 14 Posted August 20, 2019 Author Posted August 20, 2019 I have tried directly first. I only later tried nextpvr as this is already working with kodi so I assumed there would be no problems... Definitely points to emby as the problem though. When I try and tune in with emby theatre when using the nextpvr plug in the tuner is active on the nextpvr server but I still only get a loading screen in emby theatre.
serpi 78 Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 Any updates on this? Emby theater will not even work when using the nextpvr plug in. Which works immediately in kodi. Are you using the tv metadata from the NextPVR plugin in Emby? Always make sure that you are running the "Refresh Guide" task in Emby right after the EPG update in NextPVR, you might have to change the time settings in the task in Emby. For a test, run a refresh guide in Emby and wait for it to end. After that, reenter the LiveTV in Emby and retry to play LiveTV. Ciao, Alfred
Milldor 14 Posted August 21, 2019 Author Posted August 21, 2019 Are you using the tv metadata from the NextPVR plugin in Emby? Always make sure that you are running the "Refresh Guide" task in Emby right after the EPG update in NextPVR, you might have to change the time settings in the task in Emby. For a test, run a refresh guide in Emby and wait for it to end. After that, reenter the LiveTV in Emby and retry to play LiveTV. Ciao, Alfred I've refreshed the guide. My channel mappings in NPVR are different and they update accordingly in emby theater.
Milldor 14 Posted August 24, 2019 Author Posted August 24, 2019 After replacing ffmpeg with the latest version livetv will now play... However it is direct playing and shouldn't have affected anything.
Milldor 14 Posted August 24, 2019 Author Posted August 24, 2019 (edited) Back to not working again. I'm a little disappointed as to how unreliable the Windows version is. The Android TV version seems to work far better. It seems to be the version of mpv perhaps. The version that comes with emby doesn't handle hdr videos correctly and the lighting keeps changing randomly. If I replace mpv for a newer version too fix this then live tv will not work. Could a more up to date mpv version be looked into and fully supported? Edited August 24, 2019 by Milldor
Luke 39664 Posted August 26, 2019 Posted August 26, 2019 Back to not working again. I'm a little disappointed as to how unreliable the Windows version is. The Android TV version seems to work far better. It seems to be the version of mpv perhaps. The version that comes with emby doesn't handle hdr videos correctly and the lighting keeps changing randomly. If I replace mpv for a newer version too fix this then live tv will not work. Could a more up to date mpv version be looked into and fully supported? Yes we will update but there are certain things we're waiting on. Thanks.
Milldor 14 Posted August 28, 2019 Author Posted August 28, 2019 What phone are you able to use? works on my samsung s8 and my wifes s9.
Milldor 14 Posted August 29, 2019 Author Posted August 29, 2019 Using the web app or the Android app? The web app and the android app work fine. Emby theater seems to as well when using the old version of MPV. But wehn using the old version hdr videos don't play correctly.
Guest asrequested Posted August 29, 2019 Posted August 29, 2019 Try the git build of mpv from March 10th
Guest asrequested Posted August 29, 2019 Posted August 29, 2019 Luke, remember this is because of stream cache being removed. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/pull/6659
Milldor 14 Posted August 30, 2019 Author Posted August 30, 2019 Try the git build of mpv from March 10th Unfortunately it has the same problem with livetv
Guest asrequested Posted August 30, 2019 Posted August 30, 2019 Then the problem lies elsewhere. If you force it to transcode, does it play?
Milldor 14 Posted September 1, 2019 Author Posted September 1, 2019 (edited) Then the problem lies elsewhere. If you force it to transcode, does it play? Whether I transcode or not it will not play in theater. The problem seems to almost certainly lie with mpv player. I have tried using theater on the same pc as the server and face the same problem. Tv playback will work until i use a version of mpv player not supplied with theater. The version supplied however will not properly play hdr content. so I'm stuck with either problem. The official version of mpv will play livetv. The git builds will not. When madvr was part of theater there were no problems with anything. Edited September 1, 2019 by Milldor
Guest asrequested Posted September 1, 2019 Posted September 1, 2019 Whether I transcode or not it will not play in theater. The problem seems to almost certainly lie with mpv player. Tv playback will work until i use a version of mpv player not supplied with theater. The official version of mpv will play livetv. The git builds will not. It isn't mpv. I use mpv for everything. I don't know how you are able to use madvr for TV as that shouldn't be possible. Stream cache has been removed from mpv, and Theater relies on it. You can't use any build later than March 10th. I use that build in Theater and I have no issues. You are also saying that Shield won't play. It will not play through android TV on an Nvidia Shield. So you have something else that is causing a problem
Milldor 14 Posted September 1, 2019 Author Posted September 1, 2019 Whether I transcode or not it will not play in theater. The problem seems to almost certainly lie with mpv player. I have tried using theater on the same pc as the server and face the same problem. Tv playback will work until i use a version of mpv player not supplied with theater. The version supplied however will not properly play hdr content. so I'm stuck with either problem. The official version of mpv will play livetv. The git builds will not. When madvr was part of theater there were no problems with anything. After a bit fiddling I have a reasnoble solution until updates are made later. I can use the old version of mpv to allow live tv to work. Fixing the hdr issues required an edit to mpv.conf using info from Doofus at https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/69872-hdr-tone-mapping-with-mpv/.
Guest asrequested Posted September 1, 2019 Posted September 1, 2019 For the HDR, try using this, instead. I added a few things in this config that you may find you have a better result. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/76664-hdr-and-emby-theater-desktop-explained/
Milldor 14 Posted September 1, 2019 Author Posted September 1, 2019 It isn't mpv. I use mpv for everything. I don't know how you are able to use madvr for TV as that shouldn't be possible. Stream cache has been removed from mpv, and Theater relies on it. You can't use any build later than March 10th. I use that build in Theater and I have no issues. You are also saying that Shield won't play. So you have something else that is causing a problem Thanks for the info. The stream cache being removed mpv is obviously the issue. I've seen a few people requesting for it to be added again. The march 10th build seems to give me issues with TV still but the latest official one from October seems fine... Along with the tonemapping fixes On the madvr front, it will play TV in kodi via nextpvr.
Guest asrequested Posted September 1, 2019 Posted September 1, 2019 The official release from october doesn't have the HDR algorithm updates. So that won't look very good. The build needs to have this PR rolled in, which was made after the last official release. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/pull/6415
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now