Live TV Issue

[JeremyFr79 228]

Sorry if I put this in the wrong part of the forum please feel free to move the ServerWMC portion if need be.

 

Ok onto my issue. In a nutshell I have an HTPC running Win7 with WMC and a pair of Ceton tuners.  I user ServerWMC to broker the TV data over to Emby.

 

At anyrate the issue I'm running into is that I cannot watch LiveTV in EmbyTheater unless I have HTTP enabled under ServerWMC for just the Live Streams (recorded TV works fine without HTTP)

 

If I shut off HTTP completely it will start to play the channel for 1-2 seconds and then stop abruptly and return to the information screen.

 

Any ideas? I can post logs later if needed.

[Luke 42078]

Because without http it's a file and ffmpeg will stop when it thinks it has reached the end of the file.

[JeremyFr79 228]

Because without http it's a file and ffmpeg will stop when it thinks it has reached the end of the file.

Is there any way around this?

[Luke 42078]

Yes, you mount an http server and you stream it so that ffmpeg will treat it as an infinite stream, which is exactly what the ServerWMC http option does.

[JeremyFr79 228]

Yes, you mount an http server and you stream it so that ffmpeg will treat it as an infinite stream, which is exactly what the ServerWMC http option does.

lol ok thanks!

[Luke 42078]

If Emby had an internal workaround, this is exactly what it would do, so the end result would be the same. Any non-seekable protocol is a workaround because it prevents ffmpeg from determining the duration. so you could pipe it, use rtmp, rtsp, etc, but http is the most practical.