401 when accessing live TV

ben barker

Hi,

I have found an old(ish) bug report here:

https://www.lonelycoder.com/redmine/issues/856

That has been closed down, but the symptoms describe fit what I am seeing still. I am running mint 13, with the deb package downloaded from this site. All seems to work fine - except that I have to pass in credentials via the http URL to get video. If I don't do this (as happens when I simply click "play" from the channels tab the logs show:

Sep 08 21:39:15 HTTP: 192.168.1.72: / -- 401

Sep 08 21:39:15 HTTP: 192.168.1.72: /stream/channelid/11 -- 401

If I use the "play" link from the channels listing under the config>Adapter page, then the video plays fine - though it sometimes takes a while to start

I have no authrntication to access the site as yet, so the "access control" page is empty, though the superuser file on the server does have the credentials I entered during installation, and which I need to play the streams.
Disabling all user authentication doesn't so far seem to help either. Any ideas?

Michael Neurohr

Hi!
I've exactly the same problem.

I'm running Tvheadend 2.99 on Kubuntu 12.04 32-bit.

When trying to play any channel from the Channel list, I get

Sep 09 12:16:42 HTTP: 192.168.5.10: / -- 401

Sep 09 12:16:42 HTTP: 192.168.5.10: /playlist/channelid/154 -- 401

Can we sole that issue anyhow?

MfG,
newpipe

ben barker

I'm not quite sure exactly what fixed it, or if it is permanenrtly fixed, but slightly randomly I did the following:

deleted superuser file

deleted accescontrol/*

su into hts account

ran tvheadend -C from within the hts account

killed tvheadend

restarted from root using /etc/init.d/tvheadend restart

For now the problem has vanished, though sometimes a channel seems to time out before appearing and I have to click play again

Tom K

great ... thank you. worked for me :)

Michael Neurohr

hmm... that didn't work for me.

Adam Sutton

Are you talking about the VLC plugin?

That is known not to work unless you have an anonymous access account that can stream. But there has not been sufficient interest in fixing it at the moment.

If you're using VLC (or other external client) it will need to support HTTP basic Auth (VLC certainly does).

Adam

ben barker

When I installed from source (as opposed to package) I did notice that the plugin stopped working. A but of a hack, but I worked around it by editing the source such that the "play" button now points at a php file:

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="tv.vlc"');

$c=$_REQUEST['c'];
$path="http://192.168.1.1:9981/".$c;

$params="--network-caching=5000";

echo $path." ".$params;

which is a file of type VLC, and launches the channel. Like I say a bit messy, but it works for me :-)