Can't cut the cord yet

[wp.rauchholz 5]

I've been testing emby for a few months now. Overall it is a great application for what I am want to use it for.

LiveTV (internet TV, m3u playlist) though is still a little bit of a headache for which I am not yet cutting the cord on all the paid services we have. I'd like to debug what is missing/wrong to fix it and appreciate your input. These as the things that prevent me from cutting the cord:

(1) Live TV stops sometimes after a few seconds and very often, does not start again anymore. I had it is morning, wanted to watch news on my iPad and tried 3 channels, they stopped after ~10 sec and froze

(2) emby server crashes when using app from iphone/ipad/Samsung TV

 

Clients (Smansung TV, laptops, ippad/iphone) are all connected by wifi. Looking for an app to measure in-house wifi speed

 

Server config: CENTOS server, Architecture: x86_64, CPU op-mode(s):  32-bit, 64-bit, CPU(s): 4 Intel® Core i3-6100 CPU @ 3.70GHz

 

From an internet speed point of view, measuring from my server outside speed I get these values:

Measure 1

Hosted by Orange (Barcelona) [0.97 km]: 20.553 ms

Download: 154.76 Mbit/s

Upload: 29.27 Mbit/s

Measure 2

Hosted by Orange (Barcelona) [0.97 km]: 17.328 ms

Download: 119.43 Mbit/s

Upload: 29.23 Mbit/s

Measure 3

Hosted by Orange (Barcelona) [0.97 km]: 17.323 ms

Download: 133.34 Mbit/s

Upload: 29.47 Mbit/s

 

Thanks for your input

 

[Luke 42077]

Hi there, can we please look at an example? Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. thanks !

[wp.rauchholz 5]

I am using Chrome Version 63.0.3239.132 (Official Build) (64-bit)

I started the stream and after a few seconds it stopped w/o re-starting. I left the channel (arrow left top). I repeated streaming same channel and it stopped again.

Observation: Although the stream was frozen, emby continued adding records to the .txt files until I left the channel (arrow left top).

Wolfgang

 

 

ffmpeg-directstream-ce69948d-0472-436c-87a8-571981cd5e78.txt

ffmpeg-transcode-687a4d73-61fa-4c8e-b17f-bbdbe01b5958.txt

ffmpeg-directstream-12046523-3962-4dd8-a79b-1169192a8320.txt

ffmpeg-transcode-4ddbf1ca-37fc-4609-aaaf-ec2bd5ea0d62.txt

Edited January 29, 2018 by wp.rauchholz

[Luke 42077]

can you attach the emby server log as well? thanks.

[wp.rauchholz 5]

Here it is

server-63652807412.txt

[Luke 42077]

In some cases your IPTV provider is returning a 403 forbidden error:

2018-01-29 22:45:40.137 Error HttpClient: Error ProtocolError getting response from http://premium-iptv.link:6969/live/EQFARYy8jD/HafcLmI9fk/16394.ts
	*** Error Report ***
	Version: 3.2.70.0
	Command line: /usr/lib/emby-server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/lib/emby-server -restartpath /usr/lib/emby-server/restart.sh
	Operating system: Unix 3.10.0.693
	64-Bit OS: True
	64-Bit Process: True
	User Interactive: False
	Mono: 4.8.1 (Stable 4.8.1.0/22a39d7 Wed May  3 05:27:54 UTC 2017)
	Processor count: 4
	Program data path: /var/lib/emby-server
	Application directory: /usr/lib/emby-server/bin
	System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.

You'll need to figure out why that is happening. Perhaps you might need a custom user agent.

[wp.rauchholz 5]

Thanks... Let me find out what a customer user agent is....

Is there a preferred web browser for emby?

Edited January 30, 2018 by wp.rauchholz

[Luke 42077]

The first step might be asking your iptv provider why the requests are coming up 403 forbidden.

[wp.rauchholz 5]

They claim the issue isn't with them but from my ISP. They install a VPN and all is fine.

 

This can be partially true. I live in Spain and want to watch German channels and from time to time I get from a specific German channel the message that due to legal reason they block access.

What I don't understand is that I am not getting blocked every time. This morning I got blocked, 30 mins later, I can access the same channel, but it stops streaming after 5-10 secs

 

Now we are back to the initial problem of stream stopping. This behaviour is not only with German channels, but also with channels from all other countries I watch; UK, US and Brazil

 

VPN. That is a big project (I am not an IT professional, this is a hobby....). I would need to implement a VPN service and then tunnel it to a commercial service like expressvpn to get an IP in another country. I started reading about openvpn to understand.

My server is the modem/router of my private network has two NICs, runs PPPoE and DDNS client (dynamic IP), LAMP server, DNS and DHCP services. It can get quite complex to setup openvpn.

I could try (1) to install openvpn with current setup, (2) get a dedicated server as modem/router, PPPoE client and openvpn, or (3) install a VPN-enabled router from my ISP and have that device run the PPPoE client. 

 

Are there others in the community that have a similar config/setup and found a solution?

 

What is your take?

Edited February 1, 2018 by wp.rauchholz

[Guest asrequested]

There's an easier way to use a VPN for the server.

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/55137-how-to-run-emby-behind-torguard-vpn/?fromsearch=1

[Guest asrequested]

Or actually, you could just run the VPN client on the computer. My post was more about port forwarding through the VPN service. It would work either way. You can simply select which server you want to use, and click connect.

[wp.rauchholz 5]

Thanks for your help Doofus. I will have a look at your link and will try making it work.

 

I had installed a client (expressvpn) on my server. The connection from my home server to the VPN server worked just fine. But all of the clients on my local home network lost connection with the internet.

Need to check why. Kernel IP forwarding (net.ipv4.ip_forward=1) is enabled. Haven't opened a port for openvpn, but don't think that is the problem, because I do have internet access from my servers CLI.

 

Wolfgang

[Guest asrequested]

My external connection to my server works as though there is no VPN. That's the beauty of it. It's simple and just works.

[wp.rauchholz 5]

Not sure I understand; what is simple and jusrt works, the solution described under the link?

[Guest asrequested]

Yeah. A couple of basic settings and just run the client. And just leave the client running. Everything is encrypted and behind a proxy. No complications.