DVBLink-TVMosaic Live TV Plugin

[Michael_Schmitz 7]

Hi,

I am currently unhappy with the display of the channels in emby.

 

I upgaded on DVB-Link 6 and using newest Plugin. still there is no transfer of channel numbers from DVB-LINk Server to emby via the live plugin. Apart from that it has problem with some cannel names.

In DVB-LInk the channel numbers and the sorting are displayed correctly.

 

Enclosed find a screenshot:

 

 

[Spaceboy 2573]

hi @@Michael_Schmitz i don't see the same problem as you, in fact i have always had channel numbers properly transferred to emby. i just came here to request support for native tv logos in dvblink which has been added in 6.0 and is very easy to configure. is this possible @t.andre ?

 

Edited June 11, 2016 by Spaceboy

[Luke 42077]

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[Spaceboy 2573]

so i guess we're not getting any further development or fixing of bugs? well i've always wanted to learn to code!

[Luke 42077]

Excellent!

[t.andre 69]

Hello,

Sorry for the delay, but I had to be away for personal reasons and where I am I do not have much internet connection.

I'll be back next week and would make the necessary corrections.

And for DVBfLink v6 I will by to see the changes and update the plugin.

 

Cheers.

[Spaceboy 2573]

hi t.andre, we thought you had gone, its mid march since we've heard from you!

 

it'd be really appreciated if you could take a look at some of the basics of the plugin as well because we are still having enormous trouble getting streams to play nicely with the android tv app, its been suggested that the probing isn't working properly. in fact i have found that i get better results from turning all the dvblink plug in settings off and just asking it to provide a direct stream. the indirect stream with additional parameters is where things seem to be going wrong.

 

cheers

[t.andre 69]

Hi,

 

I have published version 1.2.0 beta.

See the first page for info.

 

Cheers.

Edited July 12, 2016 by t.andre

[Spaceboy 2573]

Hi,

 

I have published version 1.2.0 beta.

See the first page for info.

 

Cheers.

Hi t.andre, I notice you've removed the choice of direct or indirect streams, so which is used now?

 

My goal is to have everything playing without transcoding on android tv, what settings would you recommend? Everything seems to play without transcoding in the dvblink theatre app.

 

I'm not really clear on what the other options do? Does enabling timeshifting use dvblink functionality or Emby? What is the advantage of enabling probing and should this give a benefit of less transcoding at a cost of slower streams starting?

 

I've enabled dvblink logos but I don't think any have come through yet, I'll refresh the guide a few more times.

 

Thanks for the update

[t.andre 69]

Hi t.andre, I notice you've removed the choice of direct or indirect streams, so which is used now?

 

My goal is to have everything playing without transcoding on android tv, what settings would you recommend? Everything seems to play without transcoding in the dvblink theatre app.

 

I'm not really clear on what the other options do? Does enabling timeshifting use dvblink functionality or Emby? What is the advantage of enabling probing and should this give a benefit of less transcoding at a cost of slower streams starting?

 

I've enabled dvblink logos but I don't think any have come through yet, I'll refresh the guide a few more times.

 

Thanks for the update

 

It's just a test, for now the plugin only use direct request.

The plugin gets the stream directly from DVBLink server without any process or transconding (Raw transport stream via HTTP).

It’s a ts container and the video codec depends on your channel provider. It can be mpg or h264 or other kinds of codecs. I can’t know what is used in each country.

You can find below some explanation of the options for the plugin.

·         Enable Timeshift : The time-shift is managed by the server (I will remove it in the future, I think it’s not necessarily in emby)

·         Probe Live stream : With this option, audio stream and closed caption will be available on the client side like a browser for example, if not enabled the list of audio streams for live TV will not be listed

·         Probe Recording Stream : same functionalities as Probe live stream but for recordings

·         Enable DVBLink transcoder: The stream is transcoded by DVBLink before it sends it to the client server (I will remove it in the future, I think it’s not necessarily in emby)

For the logos try to clean your browser’s cache.

 

Cheers.

[Spaceboy 2573]

Yes uk tv is h264 and ac3 for HD and mpeg2 and mp2 for sd with an mp2 audio described second track on most channels.

 

Timeshift, are you saying this is managed by Emby or dvblink? Timeshift is a desirable feature and I don't know if there will be any Emby server support for external services. I believe Kodi uses some dvblink functionality for this.

 

So having probe on seems like a good thing but it does delay channel start up, is there a way this can be improved?

 

I'll test the other stuff and let you know how I get on

 

Cheers

[phoenixaus 3]

Hi T.Andre,

 

Hoping you could help me with something. I am using DVBLink Server Version 6.0.0 (Build 13107) with EPG Collector (Version 4.5) and Emby Version 3.1.83.0

 

I have been trying to get images sourced by EPG collector to show correctly in Emby. I have all the images and TV summaries showing correctly in DVBlink player, but if I try to look at the same show in Emby, I have a broken image link. The images are served by a small Web-server, which the log shows that the Emby access to the image is requesting an incorrect filename, whereas the DVBPlayer requests the correct one. 

 

I have raised this with Luke and he suggests that it is an issue with the plugin. I have a windows scheduled job to run EPG collector at 3am every morning, DVBLink server updates every hour, and Emby refreshes TV guide at 5am.

 

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated!!!

 

I have attached some logs from Emby ig it helps.

log 382016.zip

[t.andre 69]

Hi, i will check and see if I can implement it in the next version.

Cheers

[phoenixaus 3]

Hi t.andre, if you need me to do any testing, let me know. I did find a semi fix today. As I mentioned dvblink is showing all the images correctly. The xml that it is picking up from epg collector is correct (showing correct file names). It is emby though that is referencing incorrect names. In the emby library.db I can see the incorrect entry data. When I delete any reference to my Webster very address and the reload, everything works well. But then emby looks like it is picking up stale images from somewhere. There is no update time in the last updated field for the link, which I thought was unusual.

 

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[AlwinHummels 134]

I've a strange issue with the DVBLink plugin.

DVBLink

This version of DVBLink does not support server info request Up to date!

Status: Unavailable (Cannot retrieve DVBLink Server info.)

The plugin sais it's up to date but after that it's unavailable ????

 

I use DVBLink plugin version 1.20 beta

and Emby server Version 3.1.98.0 (Synology install)

 

DVBLink Server 6.0.0 13129 Edited August 11, 2016 by AlwinHummels

[t.andre 69]

Hi,

 

I will check these issues in the next version.

I'm working on it.

 

Cheers.

[Spaceboy 2573]

 

I've a strange issue with the DVBLink plugin.

DVBLink

This version of DVBLink does not support server info request Up to date!

Status: Unavailable (Cannot retrieve DVBLink Server info.)

The plugin sais it's up to date but after that it's unavailable ????

 

I use DVBLink plugin version 1.20 beta

and Emby server Version 3.1.98.0 (Synology install)

 

DVBLink Server 6.0.0 13129

 

same, nothing working here at present

[Spaceboy 2573]

Hi, is this completely not working for everyone? Or is it due to a dvblink upgrade?

[t.andre 69]

Hi,

I have published a new beta version.

 

Can you please check if it's working with dvblink 6 ?

 

Thanks

[Spaceboy 2573]

Hello. No change I'm afraid. No live or recorded tv and the live tv page doesn't load in the dashboard

[t.andre 69]

Hello. No change I'm afraid. No live or recorded tv and the live tv page doesn't load in the dashboard

 

Hi,

 

 

Can you check the parameter of the plugin if everything is correct ? Do a refresh guide and post the log ?

 

Thanks

Edited August 24, 2016 by t.andre

[Spaceboy 2573]

hello

 

version 1.2.1.0

 

parameters / settings for the plug in are correct but exactly the same error message as before, can't retrieve dvblink server info

 

the refresh guide task itself doesn't throw up any errors but i don't even think it really starts. just seems to go from sitting at 0% for 5 mins then complete. certainly nothing ever appears in the guide or recordings

 

this is all on my synology install

 

logs https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39548367/emby.txt

Edited August 24, 2016 by Spaceboy

[t.andre 69]

hello

 

version 1.2.1.0

 

parameters / settings for the plug in are correct but exactly the same error message as before, can't retrieve dvblink server info

 

the refresh guide task itself doesn't throw up any errors but i don't even think it really starts. just seems to go from sitting at 0% for 5 mins then complete. certainly nothing ever appears in the guide or recordings

 

this is all on my synology install

 

logs https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39548367/emby.txt

Hi,

 

His the server address and port it's correct ? I think that the new version of dvblink change the connection port.

I have version 6 installed and it works fine.

Can you check if the port of dvblink and the plugin it's the same?

 

Thanks

[Spaceboy 2573]

I stand corrected. Its working. The upgrade didn't reset the settings this time, but I have had a new router since this was last working and I forgot to switch a 1 for a 0. Apologies

Now we also have an android TV app that should be able to use external services I may be able to give this a proper go.

Cheers

Edited August 28, 2016 by Spaceboy

[Spaceboy 2573]

hurrah i am watching dvblink through emby on android tv. i am using the archos video player as the external player as vlc and the internal player need some work.

 

t.andre, i didn't really understand where we are with timeshifting. is it your expectation that this should work in emby and under what circumstances (options in emby dvblink settings)?

 

i was also wondering whether you could see anyway that the dvblink send to functionality introduced in v6 could be incorporated? i.e. that i could tell dvblink from emby to send a recording to a particular folder where, for example, emby could auto organise the file from. this would be a great solution and give us equivalent functionality to the native emby tv where recordings can be made direct to the library structure.

 

thanks