DLNA & Upnp support

[ovidiu31]

Hello Cata

Could be possible an DLNA or Upnp integration inside the minisatip? It is more like an enhacement request.

[9000h]

the minimum from the spec is in

-p url: specify playlist url using X_SATIPM3U header 
    eg: -p http://192.168.2.3:8080/playlist
    - this will add X_SATIPM3U tag into the satip description xml

but only satip clients may look for this

[catalinii]

Ovidiu do you refer to dlna for the normal TVs?

[ovidiu31]

DLNA as Inverto 400 or Schwaiger SatIP equippment have.

@catalinii I will manage today to provide you access to the Inverto or Schwaiger devices and firmware to have a look abd to be able to explain exactly which DLNA implementation i would like as enhancement to see inside the minisatip app.

I think @perexg knows exactly how the DLNA works inside the Inverto IDL400 firmware and how is DLNA wise the channels playlist is exposed to the network.

[perexg]

I only know that Inverto uses a patched minidlna server to export right URLs through DLNA. I've not had a time to dig into it more, but I think that they convert .m3u file as resources for minidlna.

[timehlers]

Once I looked into the inverto changes of minidlna. The diff can be found here:

https://github.com/timehlers/minidlna/raw/master/stream.upnp.patch

The full sources of that version, with patch applied can be found here:

https://github.com/timehlers/minidlna

But: In the end minidlna just mediate between the upnp TV and the satip-Server instance. So the satip-Server needs to be able to send an demuxed TV stream to the TV. inverto's server is capable of that, but I think minisatip is not?

Am I right?

Best

Tim

[9000h]

why not adopt the lua upnp from DD http://download.digital-devices.de/download/linux/octonet.source can be run independent from minisatip

[ovidiu31]

Bubble Upnp Server is already running on different platforms , it is handy and very easy to use install and configure. Id say all is needed is something similar to dvbviewer solution to make minisatip capable to send the channels via bubble upnp to the tv or boxes , vlc or any DLNA compliant device from the network

[catalinii]

I did not study too much, but had some tries with minisatip and serviio.

Except the http part of the dlna protocol, which is not that much work, the problem I had was that my TV was not capable of displaying 1080p 60hz, and my odroid XU (at that time) was not handling the software transcoding... In my opinion the http link to a channel should be OK for a tv to open... With RS everythign is fine (but RS is running on a i7)...

Thanks

[ovidiu31]

For example i have DVBLink server which is capable to pick up playlist with channels from Inverto IDL400 or from Schwaiger device but is unable to find or pick up generated playlist from minisatip. But this already is a different enhancement request which probably will be made later after upnp part is solved if can be added / solved

[9000h]

did you already try minisatip with "-p url" with DVBLink server?

[ovidiu31]

will make a try today

[tmn505]

Just try xupnpd. Then the typical DLNA client can see broadcasted playlist.

[ovidiu31]

nothing detected with xupnpd... @9000h

Message from dvblink after launching minisatip with -p http://192.168.1.13:8080/playlist "No channels were found in the playlist"

[tmn505]

Didn't test that myself (I'll do that this evening) but as i understand, minisatip doesn't have m3u playlist built in it, it only presents the m3u file that is stored localy. You have to provide that yourself in html directory of minisatip. The example playlists are under http://www.inverto.tv/downloads/support.php?id=1789. The xupnpd can present the same playlist to typical upnp clients.

[catalinii]

Hi guys,

so I think there is a small confusion:

-p parameters offers a satip playlist which is also in m3u format. Even if you specify this (-p xxx) your DLNA TV will not see it (because minisatip is not a DLNA server). xupnpd is able to provide a playlist (m3u format) to a DLNA TV and if the content points to minisatip http port (at least for my tv) it works.. I had an example content like:

EXTINF:0,Arte HD

http://10.0.0.1:8080/?freq=11494&sr=22000&msys=dvbs2&pol=h&pids=0,5111,5112

I have uploaded it into xupnpd and I was able to see the channel on my tv (which is not a satip TV).

[lars18th]

Yes!

I have uploaded it into xupnpd and I was able to see the channel on my tv

This is the best, and simple, solution for supporting DLNA clients. Please, don't waste resources in minisatip for a task that can be done best with external tools. The xupnpd is a lightweight and powerful server, and can run in the same server where runs the minisatip binary.

Perhaps, you can include some guide in the homepage of the project for setup minisatip+xupnpd. ;)

Or add an http call for exporting (on-line) the M3U file, and someone can create one script for update the xupnpd with the exported m3u file. That's all for full support of DLNA clients!

[ovidiu31]

no xupnp for x86_64 :( ... My device is using centos x86_64

[lars18th]

Hi @ovidiu31 ,

no xupnp for x86_64 :( ... My device is using centos x86_64

ERROR! This is my system:

$uname -a Linux debian 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux

You only need to download source and do MAKE! On Debian 7 amd64 I'm running "xupnpd" & "minisatip" :)

[tmn505]

Well as stated it works in conjunction with xupnpd. That aside, @catalinii if I toss the playlist file in html directory of minisatip (started with -p switch), and point my browser to this (url:http://192.168.1.2:8875/playlist.m3u), it displays the following content:

Server: minisatip/0.3.74
Content-Length: 98

#EXTM3U name="NPO"
#EXTINF:0,NPO
rtsp://192.168.1.2/?freq=546&bw=8&msys=dvbt&fec=1&inv=2&pids=all

Can You make it so the minisatip omits (or hides) the first two lines? The VLC tries to parse the first two lines and display warnings then starts to play the actual content of playlist.

[catalinii]

Hi tmn505,

Does it work if you remove the first 2 lines from the file?

Thanks

[tmn505]

I didn't explain it properly. The minisatip itself adds these lines to the beginning of m3u file:

Server: minisatip/0.3.74
Content-Length: 98

And without those lines it works properly. Try to place Your m3u file in html directory of minisatip and download it with wget or curl. Then review the content of downloaded m3u, You'll see the two lines I mentioned, at the beginning of this file.

[9000h]

should fix this

--- utils.c.orig    2015-10-15 17:40:42.982888447 +0200
+++ utils.c 2015-10-15 17:46:05.339243901 +0200
@@ -867,6 +867,8 @@
            strcpy(ctype, "CACHE-CONTROL: no-cache\r\nContent-type: text/html");
        else if (endswith(fn, "xml"))
            strcpy(ctype, "CACHE-CONTROL: no-cache\r\nContent-type: text/xml");
+       else if (endswith(fn, "m3u"))
+           strcpy(ctype, "CACHE-CONTROL: no-cache\r\nContent-type: video/x-mpegurl");
    }
    return mem;
 }

[tmn505]

Thanks, with that it works as desired.

[catalinii]

As the solution ith xupnpd works pretty good, I do not think there is a reason to implement this...

Please let me know if you need additional help on any issues to have this integrate better with other tools.

Thanks

[9000h]

the new VLC 3.0.0 nightly has support for SAT>IP in and will use a play-list from www.satip.info if no one is provided (Astra 19.2 only )

[lars18th]

Hi @9000h ,

the new VLC 3.0.0 nightly has support for SAT>IP

To be more specific: VLC 3.0.0 includes support for parsing UPnP XML announcements from SAT>IP servers with support for M3U filelists.

Then I suggest to write a HowTo for mix minisatip+xupnp for VLC support.

Moreover, I don't know if the VLC 3 will support RTSP transport or only HTTP transport.

[9000h]

the m3u VLC provides in case of there is no one from the server is (http://www.satip.info/Playlists/ASTRA_19_2E.m3u) and RTSP is used

[ovidiu31]

@lars18th getting compiling errors in centos (in ubuntu compiles just fine) Lars D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -o xupnpd main.cpp soap.cpp mem.cpp mcast.cpp luaxlib.cpp luaxcore.cpp luajson.cpp luajson_parser.cpp md5.o -llua -ldl -lm -luuid mcast.cpp:15:23: fatal error: uuid/uuid.h: No such file or directory

include <uuid/uuid.h>

[9000h]

you need to install the uuid-dev package also

[ovidiu31]

is installed but still crashing to same error while compiling

gcc -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -O2 -Ilua-5.1.4 -Llua-5.1.4 -DWITH_LIBUUID -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -o xupnpd main.cpp soap.cpp mem.cpp mcast.cpp luaxlib.cpp luaxcore.cpp luajson.cpp luajson_parser.cpp md5.o -llua -ldl -lm -luuid mcast.cpp:15:23: fatal error: uuid/uuid.h: No such file or directory

include <uuid/uuid.h>

                   ^

compilation terminated.

[root@localhost src]# yum install uuid-devel Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

• base: centos.mirrors.linux.ro
• epel: fedora.mirrors.telekom.ro
• extras: centos.mirrors.linux.ro
• updates: centos.mirrors.linux.ro Package uuid-devel-1.6.2-26.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version Nothing to do

[9000h]

the reason is probably simple

 rpmquery  -l uuid-devel
/usr/bin/uuid-config
/usr/include/uuid.h
/usr/lib64/libossp-uuid.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ossp-uuid.pc
/usr/share/man/man3/ossp-uuid.3.gz

the header file uuid.h is under /usr/include and not /usr/include/uuid on centos

[ovidiu31]

mcast.cpp: In function âvoid mcast::uuidgen(char)â: mcast.cpp:55:12: error: aggregate âuuid_t uuidâ has incomplete type and cannot be defined uuid_t uuid; ^ mcast.cpp:56:23: error: âuuid_generateâ was not declared in this scope uuid_generate(uuid); ^ mcast.cpp:58:32: error: âuuid_unparse_lowerâ was not declared in this scope uuid_unparselower(uuid,dst); ^ make: ** [x86] Error 1

[9000h]

looks like I was wrong the right missing package is libuuid-devel

[ovidiu31]

fixed thanks... but still one big question .... how do i obtain an Thor 1W channels list m3u?

[9000h]

you may download the vdr channels.conf from http://channelpedia.yavdr.com/gen/DVB-S/S1W/S1W_complete_sorted_by_groups.channels.conf and convert it with this script https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nfedera/5d32e157eb4fe5ef2369/raw/4a6a59ecb02e167800b4f563f809c54232108489/cc2m3u.py

[lars18th]

Hi @9000h ,

Interesting script! Perhaps a new script for scanning at some hours (using minisatip as tunner) can create the conf file and export it to the minisatip/html directory. You agree?

[9000h]

the vlc-3.0.0 nightly has direct support for satip rtsp protocol in, the syntax is like:

#EXTINF:-1,Das Erste KDG
satip://192.168.178.129:554/?freq=338.000&msys=dvbc&sr=6900&mtype=256qam&pids=0,100,101,104,102,103,106
#EXTINF:-1,Astra 19.2E DMAX vert
satip://192.168.178.133/?src=1&freq=12480&sr=27500&fec=34&pol=v&msys=dvbs&pids=0,108,3327,3328

[ovidiu31]

works ok now

[henfri]

Hello,

how do I configure xupnpd for use with minisatip? For me, the m3u is accessible under http://server:8081/playlist.m3u -but how do I tell this to xupnpd?

Greetings, Hendrik

[tmn505]

Hi, inspect the contents of xupnpd.lua file there You can point xupnpd to your playlist url. Also there is another option, works without editing configuration files. Just drop Your playlist in xupnpd playlist directory, restart, and it should serve it on Your lan.