Live tv (.m3u) files

[Del007 0]

I have some .m3u files that work perfectly on my windows pc with VLC. When I play them on Emby, a lot of them will only play for 30 seconds or so. Is there an option for 'continuous playback' like there is in VLC?

 

Cheers for your help

[Luke 42077]

Hi, at the moment, no. I guess we're going to have to add some special  handling for them.

[Del007 0]

That would be amazing if you could do that. I'm beginning to really like Emby

[Luke 42077]

maybe you or someone can research if there's a way we can tell ffmpeg to stream it continuously over the command line?

[Del007 0]

I'd be more than willing to help but I've no idea what to do. If you could point me in the right direction then I'd love to help

[lexisdude 145]

vlc accepts live stream buffering and continuous play commands as part of it's parameters . I thought i read somewhere that the same could basically be achieved with ffmpeg through the use of ffserver in tandem but dont quote me on that

Edited June 26, 2016 by lexisdude

[chiefnerd 18]

This is a common problem with meet m3u8 chunk files. Just pipe it in using ffmpeg copying audio and video codecs outputting to ts instead of m3u8.

 

I can give you a command if it helps? We have to run this on all m3u8 files for tvheadend