Finally working IP-TV solution for TV Server! (1 Viewer)

[dimka]

Richardd & Automate: I need to have a look into logs generated by filter. Their format suppose to be like MPIPTV-yyyy-mm-dd.Log . Try to scan and send the latest one.

The format is equvalent to Mikeyko's one. This is the example

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:1,Cahnnel 1
http://yahoo.com/k/stream.php?id=2&user=222&pass=333

 

[Automate]

dima, should mms links work such as mms://live1.wm.skynews.servecast.net/skynews_wmlz_live300k
or RealMedia streams rtsp://

 

[velis]

Have ported Velis's patch to my HTTP stream reader. At least scanning goes faster. Will report later about channel switching

Update. Hm.. Didn't notice an update of patch futher in the Vilis' post. Will try to aply second patch.

Dimka,

I'm expecting eventually you'll post a patch for this so:

Make sure you don't add anything to the UDP grabber thread. The whole thing is so sensitive to packet loss practically anything can break it. My final solution uses select() function to wait for socket data. But even moving this function before the sockrecv() caused dropped packets (plenty of them). So practically anything in that loop can cause dropping. I'm afraid that even the buffer posting code can cause some losses, but I didn't want to make the code SO complicated to solve this potentiol problem. I'd need additional threads / processing if I wanted to handle that too. And the result is currently acceptable so there wasn't much need for that.

Just a heads up so that you don't unintentionally break UDP grabbing.

 

[Richardd]

Hi Dimka,
I tried this:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:1,Journaal 24
http://tempo12.omroep.nl/nos_journaal24-bb

(I also tried http://yahoo.com/k/stream.php?id=2&user=222&pass=333 but that didn't work either)
I can't find any MPIPTV-yyyy-mm-dd.Log on my computer. The only log-file that has changed is tv.log which I have attached.
Maybe you can see something in this file.

 

[chameleon82]

Is possible to start show TV channel in 1 second ? May be starting with no key-frame and bad picture while no keyframe, but starts show so quickly.

 

[Automate]

dimka, with this

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:1,NASA
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment=149773

I get the following log here C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\log\MPIPTV-2010-01-12.Log

12-01-2010 23:17:16.577 Load: Parsed parameters DestIPlaylist.yahoo.com username/Usernull) Protocol:http GET_string:?id=1369080&segment=149773 port:80!!!
12-01-2010 23:17:16.577 DoBufferProcessingLoop: Parsed parameters DestIPlaylist.yahoo.com username/Usernull) Protocol:http GET_string:?id=1369080&segment=149773 port:80!!!
12-01-2010 23:17:16.577 33
12-01-2010 23:17:16.639 Protocol is not supported
12-01-2010 23:17:16.639 DoBufferProcessingLoop: Parsed parameters DestIPnull) username/Usernull) Protocol: GET_stringnull) port:0!!!
12-01-2010 23:17:38.733 Protocol is not supported
12-01-2010 23:17:38.733 Protocol is not supported

 

[Webcomber]

IP-TV 1.0.2 cannot Record !?

Hi!

My IP-TV setup refuses to start recording from MP interface, either from Guide, or Record Now.
Recording from the TVserver GUI, Manual Control, works fine.

I cannot get this to work on my 1.0.1.0 or present 1.0.2 installs.

I have tried 1.1.0beta, but that is a whole different story: When I load+scan just a handfull of channels (say 6) recording will work fine, as expected.
However, when I load+scan all my ip-tv channels (about 32) MP is no longer able to show the TV Guide, it comes up with an error about missing Label. The default channel is however viewable and recordable. But as there is no Guide, I can also not select different channels. Strangely enough, in MP from TV menu clicking on Search will show me TV show catagories with content spread over many days and channels. So that part does read the TV Guide/Schedule.
But this is the beta and it would also not produce sound for interface moves (slect up/down/next etc.) nor for Bass player, and would crash on some other seldom used (by me) functions, so I went back to 1.0.2.

I see reported problem:
Please update the older component to the same version as the newer one.
TvServer Version: 1.0.2.0
TvPlugin Version: 1.0.2.22555

I configured MP to log details Debug, started MP, viewed one channel (Nederland 1) for a couple of seconds, clicked Record now on TV window, nothing happens or is reported, next I go into Guide, click an item in the future, select record, nothing happens or is reported. Selecting a Notification for the same schedule item does work and puts the !Notify icon on the item bar.

I get a lot of
2010-01-13 09:46:24.703125 [SetupTv]: ServiceHelper: Could not check whether the tvservice is running. Please check your network as well.
Error: System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException: Requested Service not found

in the TVServer error log, eventhough it is running?


And here is another error.log exerpt on Scheduling:

Exception rethrown at [0]:
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
at TvControl.IController.get_IdServer()
at SetupTv.ServiceHelper.get_IsRunning()
2010-01-13 10:01:19.356522 [MPMain]: Exception in Schedule.Persist() with Message insert into Schedule ( idChannel, scheduleType, programName, startTime, endTime, maxAirings, priority, directory, quality, keepMethod, keepDate, preRecordInterval, postRecordInterval, canceled, recommendedCard ) values ( ?idChannel, ?scheduleType, ?programName, ?startTime, ?endTime, ?maxAirings, ?priority, ?directory, ?quality, ?keepMethod, ?keepDate, ?preRecordInterval, ?postRecordInterval, ?canceled, ?recommendedCard ); select LAST_INSERT_ID();
2010-01-13 10:01:40.731522 [MPMain]: Exception in Schedule.Persist() with Message insert into Schedule ( idChannel, scheduleType, programName, startTime, endTime, maxAirings, priority, directory, quality, keepMethod, keepDate, preRecordInterval, postRecordInterval, canceled, recommendedCard ) values ( ?idChannel, ?scheduleType, ?programName, ?startTime, ?endTime, ?maxAirings, ?priority, ?directory, ?quality, ?keepMethod, ?keepDate, ?preRecordInterval, ?postRecordInterval, ?canceled, ?recommendedCard ); select LAST_INSERT_ID();

Please help?!

 

[dimka]

Automate

I see the version you have has parsed source url wrongly. My version has written next lines

13-01-2010 18:33:49.717 [63c]Load: Parsed parameters DestIPlaylist.yahoo.com username/Usernull) Protocol:http GET_string:/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment=149773 port:80!!!
13-01-2010 18:33:49.719 [df8]Starting grabber thread
13-01-2010 18:33:49.719 [df8]DoBufferProcessingLoop: Parsed parameters DestIPlaylist.yahoo.com username/Usernull) Protocol:http GET_string:/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment=149773 port:80!!!
13-01-2010 18:33:49.937 [63c]Load: Parsed parameters DestIPlaylist.yahoo.com username/Usernull) Protocol:http GET_string:/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment=149773 port:80!!!
13-01-2010 18:33:49.939 [19f0]Starting grabber thread
13-01-2010 18:33:49.939 [19f0]DoBufferProcessingLoop: Parsed parameters DestIPlaylist.yahoo.com username/Usernull) Protocol:http GET_string:/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment=149773 port:80!!!
13-01-2010 18:33:50.041 [19f0]Read 452 bytes at pos 0 of 131072
13-01-2010 18:33:50.137 [19f0]Posting 452 / 131072 bytes at seq # 0

So it managed to find correct GET string /makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment=149773

Anyway - it doesn't find any video on the stream as reply is very short 452 bytes. I assume it's just header with real URL which should be taken
UPDATE: I have looked into package it receives. It's XML with reference URL in MMS format.

Regarding mms protocol. Acoordinaly to wiki Microsoft Media Server - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia its a complex of protocols taken in some order to find streaming protocol and port. So far you can try to replace mms with http but not necesary source server will stream on http protocol.

velis
I don't do any changes/patches in officcial filter. My filter is just a clone of Mikeko's and doesn't contain any UDP processing - just http. So far - if you put my filter UDP doesn't work and vice versa.

Richardd
if you don't find log in format MPIPTV-yyyy-mm-dd.Log then you probably didn't replace original Mikeiko's filter with my one.

 

[Richardd]

Dimka, you´re right now I have a log-file:

13-01-2010 19:36:11.480 Load: Parsed parameters DestIP:0.0.0.0 username/Usernull) Protocol:udp GET_string: port:1234!!!
13-01-2010 19:36:11.591 Load: Parsed parameters DestIP:tempo12.omroep.nl username/Usernull) Protocol:http GET_string: port:80!!!
13-01-2010 19:36:11.593 DoBufferProcessingLoop: Parsed parameters DestIP:tempo12.omroep.nl username/Usernull) Protocol:http GET_string: port:80!!!
13-01-2010 19:36:11.641 33
13-01-2010 19:36:11.644 Load: Parsed parameters DestIP:tempo12.omroep.nl username/Usernull) Protocol:http GET_string:/nos_journaal24-bb port:80!!!
13-01-2010 19:36:11.646 DoBufferProcessingLoop: Parsed parameters DestIP:tempo12.omroep.nl username/Usernull) Protocol:http GET_string:/nos_journaal24-bb port:80!!!
13-01-2010 19:36:11.691 33
13-01-2010 19:36:33.680 Load: Parsed parameters DestIP:0.0.0.0 username/Usernull) Protocol:udp GET_string: port:1234!!!
13-01-2010 19:36:33.687 Load: Parsed parameters DestIP:0.0.0.0 username/Usernull) Protocol:udp GET_string: port:1234!!!

 

[Automate]

Is there any chance that the IPTV Source Filter will use codecs besides MPEG-2 and H.264? It seems as though the URLs that myself and Richardd are trying are using the WMV3 codec which does not work.