RTSP selecting channels? (1 Viewer)

[danneh3826]

Hi there,

Hope I'm not stepping on toes or asking questions that have already been asked (I can't seem to find any).

I'm trying to use RTSP in TvServer into VLC over my network. It works perfectly fine if I either go into Manual Setup mode in the TvServer config and start TimeShifting, or I'm actually watching a channel via MP itself. However, if MP is idle (start screen), RTSP doesn't work. I get:

Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'rtsp://192.168.0.152/stream2.0'. Check the log for details.

Now I know for a fact that the ports are all open and that it can actually stream, as I mentioned it works perfectly well when the TvServer/card is active. What I'm trying to find out is; if MP is idle/start screen, how can I activate the TvServer/card by requesting the RTSP stream? What's more, how might I be able to select a channel to watch via the network/RTSP?.

I've seen a couple of clients and apps around which claim to be MP remotes of various descriptions, and I saw one plugin for VLC which was specifically for MP TvServer and channel changing etc. One problem with that though. Windows DLL's tend not to work on a Linux install of VLC.

Anyone have any suggestions how I might do what I'm trying to do, or even if what I'm trying to do is even possible?



Dan

 

[DieBagger]

The problem is that channel changes/starting of timeshift is not controlled via rtsp.

So how this works is that you send a command to the tvservice, the server starts timeshifting and returns a rtsp url. This url is only for this timeshifting session and will become invalid as soon as you stop timeshifting. All you can do within the rtsp stream is seek and pause/resume.

 

[danneh3826]

so how might one send this signal to start timeshifting? is there some kind of webservice/api or something that's contactable via the network that can request the server to commence timeshifting on a particular channel and return an rtsp url?

 

[DieBagger]

There are some solutions available that do just that, for example https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ortal-tv-server-90395/index13.html#post724264

You can send commands via webrequest, so to start a stream you would open

http://[SERVER]:4321/TV4Home.Server...GetStreamingUrl?userName=testuser&channelId=1

This would return a json string with the rtsp url to this timeshifting session. For a documentation of all available methods see TV4Home - The all-in-one TV solution!