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Fleker / CumulusTV

Android TV Live Channel Plugin with user-entered stream files
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Are only HLS and MPEG-DASH supported? #52

Closed mattgorski closed 8 years ago

mattgorski commented 8 years ago

I am trying to add simple http m3u streams for custom channels but none are working. I have an m3u livetv list from my http server and I remux my hdhomerun prime channels to h264 using vdr iptv plugin but I can not seem to get channels to play.

Channels all play fine using mx player, vlc, kodi etc....

Fleker commented 8 years ago

Hi, You can add each HLS stream to the app and it should play fine. What happens when you try to add the stream URL? What happens when you try the built-in player?

-Nick On Oct 19, 2015 12:11 PM, "Matt Gorski" notifications@github.com wrote:

I am trying to add simple http m3u streams for custom channels but none are working. I have an m3u livetv list from my http server and I remux my hdhomerun prime channels to h264 using vdr iptv plugin but I can not seem to get channels to play.

Channels all play fine using mx player, vlc, kodi etc....

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mattgorski commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the response. Here some more info on my streams. They are re-encoded on the fly from mpeg-2 to h264 mpegts. Each channel is a separate .m3u live channel containing this:

EXTM3U

EXTINF:-1,1 DISCOVERY-HD

http://mydyn.ip.net:3000/EXT/I-0-930-930

I host each of these .m3u on my apache webserver and added them as links:

http://mydyn.ip.net/discovery_channel.m3u

I added these as links in Cumulus but there is no preview on the built in player and my nexus player and adt-1 do not play the custom channels. This is the only way I could think of to get these to work with CumulusTV but no go.

Any help would be great :)

LOVE THE APP BTW!!!

Fleker commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the love! <3

At the moment, only HLS is supported. MPEG-DASH is currently not (but there's no reason it can't be, this will be added in the next update #53).

Additionally, there is planned but not implemented support for playlists. Right now each channel has to be manually entered ie. http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/uhls/6540154/streams/live/iphone/playlist.m3u8

Could there be a geoblocking issue? Those streams do not seem to play for me (USA).

mattgorski commented 8 years ago

That stream is my personal HDHomerun Prime cable subscription stream so I took out the valid IP/Dynamic IP. I will try and research ffmpeg outputting HLS m3u8 live streams. I can't seem to figure out the ffmpeg command line for re-encoding my input which is mpegts to hls/m3u8.

I know I could use wowza so maybe thats a solution...

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Nick notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for the love! <3

At the moment, only HLS is supported. MPEG-DASH is currently not (but there's no reason it can't be, this will be added in the next update).

Additionally, there is planned but not implemented support for playlists. Right now each channel has to be manually entered.

Could there be a geoblocking issue? Those streams do not seem to play for me (USA).

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Fleker/CumulusTV/issues/52#issuecomment-149338299.

Fleker commented 8 years ago

It looks like Homerun streams might work if I add MPEG-DASH support back to the app. I'll try to get something thrown together this week and get back to you.

mattgorski commented 8 years ago

HDHomerun is just straight MPEG2 MPEG-TS. Should be very easy to implement standard mgegts (mpeg transport streams). But I am mainly using Cumulus as a remote TV application so I can adjust the bitrate to use livetv channels on mobile networks for less bandwidth. I can give you a link via email to test a stream in vlc so you can see the container format. My email is on my github profile.

Fleker commented 8 years ago

Hey there, Can you sideload 1.4-alpha 1 on your device and see if that improves anything? I think #53 should be fixed.

mattgorski commented 8 years ago

Awesome. I'll sideload it and test out the streams tmro. Thanks a million for your fix!

Fleker commented 8 years ago

If it hasn't worked so far, try again once I get the new build published. The issue may be related to #65 and the app should now have more support for MPEG-TS (and MPEG-DASH) by checking different codecs per stream.

Fleker commented 8 years ago

New version is published. Let me know when you get a chance to test 1.4.1.

mattgorski commented 8 years ago

Heyyyy sorry Nick ive been super busy I will try the updated apk tonight and let you know if its working for regular mpegts streams

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Nick notifications@github.com wrote:

New version is published. Let me know when you get a chance to test 1.4.1.

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