Hi guys,
I can see lots of people on here have had trouble with IPTV and I've used lots of posts to get me this far (thanks everyone!) but now...
I'm getting unfinished recordings whenever I try to record something over an hour or so (or even sometimes less). For instance, a two hour scheduled recording can end up with a length of anything from 30 minutes up to just over an hour, but I've also had a few minutes.
The only reason I've reverted to TVH at all is that I want to be able to record things when I can't watch them live, else I'd just revert to a simple client, or a provider's app.
- It doesn't seem to matter whether recordings are scheduled via the EPG or just manually setting a timer.
- There aren't any errors listed in the logs, the power supply is stable, it's all up to date kit and builds.
- I have three suppliers (trying out alternatives) and they all suffer very similar fates (especially when on the same programme).
- I've also followed the suggested settings here -
https://tvheadend.org/d/5282-iptv-buffering-stalls-general-drop-outs-settings-that-resolved-things-for-me - and in a few other posts too... and tried tinkering...
- I've had some success linking directly to an Enigma2 box M3U,
...so I think I might be experiencing some sort of "stall", where the bandwidth reduces to zero but TVH doesn't try to restart it.
I've seen some posts mentioning converting the http addresses to pipes in an M3U file (https://tvheadend.org/d/4968-connect-tvheadend-to-m3u8-stream) and then making a re-starting Bash script if the bandwidth stays at zero for 20 seconds (https://tvheadend.org/issues/3885), BUT...
I'm a relative novice and can't work out how I could <easily> apply both methods to an existing M3U file that has hundreds of muxes in it, in the format of:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="channel 1" tvg-name="Channel 1" tvg-logo="
http://logo.logo.logo.png" group-title="Group",Channel 1
http://xxx.xxxx:xx/xxxx/user-id/password/9999999.ts
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="channel 2" tvg-name="Channel 2" tvg-logo="
http://logo.logo.logo.png" group-title="Group",Channel 2
http://xxx.xxxx:xx/xxxx/user-id/password/9999999.ts
After over a week of limited sleep to get myself this far, I'm reaching the point of grabbing a hammer... :)
Is there anyone on here who could explain in easy terms what I need to do (that wouldn't send me to the hell of hours of hand-crafting thousands of networks or files), please?
Thanks (in anticipation).