Unable to play live TV

[ygalanter]

Not sure if I am doing something wrong or something else is going on, but I have 2 issues. One - Out of 30 live TV channels NextPVR-Plex shows only 4. And second issue - when I attempt to play live channel - it doesn't, displaying errors like "this stream could not be played". Any idea what's going on? Thanks!

[psyciknz]

Possibly easier to post me a message on the next pvr forums (or plex) Im on both as psycik. As I'll need you to post logs etc.

Regarding the 2nd issue post some logs - what I've seen sometime is some places have 10.3 style channel numbers, which has issues.

Regarding the first issue. http://:8866/services?method=channel.listings.current&sid=plex&client=C07FF0ARDHJH

Will list all of the channels currently playing. If this list is different from what you see in nextpvr-plex then maybe there's something wrong with some of the entries and it's skipping them. Post the result of the call on your server and I can look at it

[psyciknz]

I've made some changes in this area finally, and had some success for live tv. Try this if stil linterest

[ygalanter]

Awesome, thanks!

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I've made some changes in this area finally, and had some success for live tv. Try this if stil linterest

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[psyciknz]

So this is working for you?

[bandbbs2]

i just downloaded the latest plugin and tried it on Plex 1.5.3.3580 under Windows 10... while trying to play Live TV items I get a "there was a problem playing this item" message.. What can I provide to help "debug"?

[psyciknz]

Is that using the app from windows store? Does using the web player change this?

Also what is your source data? E.g. I'm in nz, ours is h.264 with ac3 or aac. Audio.

Obviously I can't test mpeg2

[bandbbs2]

this is trying to play live TV on plex server on the same PC.. not sure what you mean by web player? it's playing from NEXTPVR so i am not sure about h.264 or the audio?.. how do i tell? thanks

[psyciknz]

Do you start a Plex app or do you use a browser to access Plex?

For the video the nextpvr recording logs should show that detail.

Also do you have channel numbers with decimal values?

[bandbbs2]

NRecord.zip I use the Plex APP associated with the Plex server on the same Win 10 PC.. it’s not the standalone Windows 10 Plex app from the app store. So in this case.. on my Win 10 PC I am running the Plex server on the same PC.. and I am on that same PC under the PLEX server app..

I attached the Nextpvr logs in zip file – see the error in the web.txt log” look at around 4:03PM on 4/6

Unexpected error streaming channel: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)

at NShared.Streaming.StreamingHelper.StreamNative(Socket conn, Dictionary`2 parameters)

It’s a channel with a decimal value.. 2.1 or 2.2

Thanks..

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Do you start a Plex app or do you use a browser to access Plex?

For the video the nextpvr recording logs should show that detail.

Also do you have channel numbers with decimal values?

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com.dcSoftware.plexapp.nextpvr.zip

[psyciknz]

So right click the plex app and open "plex" from there right? Ok that opens the plex web viewer in a browser looking at localhost.

I'm not sure what the nextpvr error is. Could be that plex is closing the connection as it's not getting anything - even though nextpvr looks like it's waiting.

Ok I see you're ATSC and: 2017-04-05 16:34:57.527 [DEBUG][5] Removing filter MPEG-2 Sections and Tables 2017-04-05 16:34:57.528 [DEBUG][5] Removing filter BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter 2017-04-05 16:34:57.528 [DEBUG][5] Removing filter MPEG-2 Demultiplexer

So I assume mpeg2. Likely that the decimal channel numbers are causing a problem.

In the plex logs\pms logs directory will be a nextpvr log (that the channel writes), it should list the URL I'm calling to access the channel. It should look something like this: /live?channel=12.2&sid=plex&client=vra1hepros10pb9 (this seems to be the nextpvr side of it)

I did make a change a while back for decimal channel numbers, but not sure if it was confirmed as working.

[bandbbs2]

yes.. right click..

see attached log.. is shows the /live? url I believe.. Playvideo: http://127.0.0.1:8866/live?channel=2.1&sid=plex&client=7E77E4F0-CE9D-4AF2-8975-F7EFEC788F50

com.dcSoftware.plexapp.nextpvr.zip

thanks..

[psyciknz]

And if you run that url in a browser you get prompted to download a file? It should.

See I see nothing wrong with it, I'm passing the channel id as a decimal. Unless the problem is the mpeg 2 as in the code I'm doing this: container = container, video_codec = VideoCodec.H264, audio_codec = 'aac_latm', audio_channels=2, optimized_for_streaming = True

You could try editing the NextPVR.bundle/Contents/Code/init.py file in the CreateVideoClipObject section. And where you see the video codec and audio codec, try commenting them out with # If that works, that could be a change I make.

[psyciknz]

Shouldn't be. Here's the same file from github video_codec = VideoCodec.H264,

video_codec = 'h264',

audio_codec = 'aac_latm', audio_channels=2,

Also to be confusing there's a CreateVideoObject and a CreateVideoClipObject. The latter is used for live (I haven't fixed recorded content yet).

[bandbbs2]

got it.. that seems to have fixed playing liveTV via Plex under a browser, also, Plex app on IOS, Plex app on AppleTV.. still gets an error on Plex app on XBOX.. but, again, it wasn't working anywhere until I made the change you suggested.. what I mean is that is now works on Win 10 brower, Plex App for IOS, and Plex App for Apple TV... not working on Plex for XBOX

Very much appreciate the help!!!

[psyciknz]

Ahh great. Ok. I'll make an update to the code to sort that out.

I might close off this issue once I've done it.

[bandbbs2]

Thanks again!!!

Sent on the go!!

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Ahh great. Ok. I'll make an update to the code to sort that out.

I might close off this issue once I've done it.

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[VRtrout]

I also had live tv issues and commenting that out fix it. Thanks.

video_codec = VideoCodec.H264,

            #video_codec = 'h264',
            #audio_codec = 'aac_latm',

ALSO: Just below those settings were these that were commented out

bitrate = 13000,

            #video_resolution=480,

I un-commented them out and gained the ability to adjust the playback bit-rate (the settings icon in the corner appeared, was not there before for live tv).

[psyciknz]

Should be fixed now.