IPTV channels won't play

Chris Koster

Hi Guys,

I'm having trouble watching IPTV channels through Tvheadend. I have five DVB-C tuners so I cleaned the log to only see the IPTV log entries.

What I did:

1. Added new automtic IPTV network. With url of m3u file. The file is a playlist of .ts (MPEG-TS) url which you see regularly on this forum. Max input is set to 1 and service ID als so set to 1.
2. Alle muxes are immediatly found and services are also there. When I look at the servive the correct .ts url is shown
3. I mapped alle services to channels

4. I try to play channel (in kodi, vlc and built-in webplayer). All refuse to play, see log for more info:

2017-07-04 09:42:12.172 mpegts: listproxy.php - VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD in necrotv - tuning on IPTV 2017-07-04 09:42:12.173 epggrab: listproxy.php - VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD in necrotv - registering mux for OTA EPG 2017-07-04 09:42:12.176 subscription: 1AAF: "HTTP" subscribing on channel "VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD", weight: 100, adapter: "IPTV", network: "necrotv", mux: "listproxy.php - VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD", service: "VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD", profile="webtv-h264-aac-matroska", hostname="141.93.23.140", username="chris", client="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36" 2017-07-04 09:42:27.172 mpegts: listproxy.php - VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD in necrotv - scan no data, failed 2017-07-04 09:42:29.238 subscription: 1AAF: No input source available for subscription "HTTP" to channel "VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD" 2017-07-04 09:42:29.238 webui: Couldn't start streaming /stream/channel/1a9cb27352f2071c5676f59a6cd0eff0?profile=webtv-h264-aac-matroska, No input detected 2017-07-04 09:42:29.238 subscription: 1AAF: "HTTP" unsubscribing from "VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD", hostname="141.93.23.140", username="chris", client="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36" 2017-07-04 09:42:29.515 mpegts: listproxy.php - VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD in necrotv - tuning on IPTV 2017-07-04 09:42:29.515 subscription: 1AB8: "HTTP" subscribing on channel "VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD", weight: 100, adapter: "IPTV", network: "necrotv", mux: "listproxy.php - VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD", service: "VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD", profile="webtv-h264-aac-matroska", hostname="141.93.23.140", username="chris", client="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36" 2017-07-04 09:42:45.238 subscription: 1AB8: service instance is bad, reason: No input detected 2017-07-04 09:42:46.238 mpegts: listproxy.php - VIP UK: Sky Sports Mix FHD in necrotv - tuning on IPTV 2017-07-04 09:42:46.239 subscription: 1ABD: "epggrab" subscribing to mux "listproxy.php - VIP UK: Sky Sports Mix FHD", weight: 4, adapter: "IPTV", network: "necrotv", service: "Raw PID Subscription" 2017-07-04 09:42:48.238 subscription: 1AB8: No input source available for subscription "HTTP" to channel "VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD" 2017-07-04 09:42:48.238 webui: Couldn't start streaming /stream/channel/1a9cb27352f2071c5676f59a6cd0eff0?profile=webtv-h264-aac-matroska, No input detected 2017-07-04 09:42:48.238 subscription: 1AB8: "HTTP" unsubscribing from "VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD", hostname="141.93.23.140", username="chris", client="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36" 2017-07-04 09:42:48.361 mpegts: listproxy.php - VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD in necrotv - tuning on IPTV 2017-07-04 09:42:48.361 subscription: 1ABD: "epggrab" unsubscribing 2017-07-04 09:42:48.362 subscription: 1ABF: "HTTP" subscribing on channel "VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD", weight: 100, adapter: "IPTV", network: "necrotv", mux: "listproxy.php - VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD", service: "VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD", profile="webtv-h264-aac-matroska", hostname="141.93.23.140", username="chris", client="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36" 2017-07-04 09:43:04.264 subscription: 1ABF: service instance is bad, reason: No input detected 2017-07-04 09:43:04.888 subscription: 1ABF: "HTTP" unsubscribing from "VIP UK: BT Sport 1 HD", hostname="141.93.23.140", username="chris", client="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36" 2017-07-04 09:43:05.264 mpegts: listproxy.php - VIP UK: Sky Sports Mix FHD in necrotv - tuning on IPTV 2017-07-04 09:43:05.278 subscription: 1AC4: "epggrab" subscribing to mux "listproxy.php - VIP UK: Sky Sports Mix FHD", weight: 4, adapter: "IPTV", network: "necrotv", service: "Raw PID Subscription"

Robert Cameron

Do your streams play fine in VLC and ffplay? What does ffprobe say about the streams, or VLC?

Robert Cameron

Also, makes sure your IPTV network is set to only allow 1 simultaneous stream. According to Necrotv's site, attempting to open more than 1 stream will block your IP.

Chris Koster

Robert Cameron wrote:

> Do your streams play fine in VLC and ffplay? What does ffprobe say about the streams, or VLC?

Yes they all play fine in VLC, first block is export of ffprobe (which has almost no info)

codec_tag_string=[6][0][0][0]
codec_tag=0x0006
width=N/A
height=N/A
id=0x102
r_frame_rate=0/0
avg_frame_rate=0/0
time_base=1/90000
start_pts=112773600
start_time=1253.040000
duration_ts=N/A
duration=N/A
bit_rate=N/A
max_bit_rate=N/A
bits_per_raw_sample=N/A
nb_frames=N/A
nb_read_frames=N/A
nb_read_packets=N/A
DISPOSITION:default=0
DISPOSITION:dub=0
DISPOSITION:original=0
DISPOSITION:comment=0
DISPOSITION:lyrics=0
DISPOSITION:karaoke=0
DISPOSITION:forced=0
DISPOSITION:hearing_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:visual_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:clean_effects=0
DISPOSITION:attached_pic=0
DISPOSITION:timed_thumbnails=0
TAG:language=eng
[/STREAM]
[FORMAT]
filename=http://tv.necroiptv.com/live/username/password/7963.ts nb_streams=3
nb_programs=1
format_name=mpegts
format_long_name=MPEG-TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)
start_time=1253.040000
duration=N/A
size=N/A
bit_rate=N/A
probe_score=50

[/FORMAT]

And a mediaInfo export from a piece of recorded .ts file:

General
ID : 1 (0x1)
Complete name : /Users/chris/Downloads/vlc-record-2017-07-03-14h14m39s-Service01-.ts
Format : MPEG-TS
File size : 5.98 MiB
Duration : 11s 440ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable

Overall bit rate : 4 345 Kbps

Video
ID : 256 (0x100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : 27
Duration : 8s 760ms
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Variable
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits

Scan type : Progressive

Audio
ID : 257 (0x101)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Muxing mode : ADTS
Codec ID : 15
Duration : 11s 434ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Frame rate : 46.875 fps (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy

Delay relative to video : -229ms

Text
ID : 258 (0x102)-888
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)

Format : Teletext Subtitle

Menu
ID : 4096 (0x1000)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Duration : 11s 440ms
List : 256 (0x100) (AVC) / 257 (0x101) (AAC) / 258 (0x102)-888 (Teletext Subtitle)
Service name : Service01
Service provider : FFmpeg

Service type : digital television

> Also, makes sure your IPTV network is set to only allow 1 simultaneous stream. According to Necrotv's site, attempting to open more than 1 stream will block your IP.
I know, i mentioned it in the first post that max input limit is 1. I also double checked no stream is still running in vlc or other device.

Chris Koster

Ok this is awkward :p all streams play fine now in TVH. Haven't changed a thing since posting... weird but the streams are playing fine through TVH now. Thanks for your time and help.