VC Stream as Channel (4.3-109)

Brian Blake

In my house i have a Ubuntu box ( Media-PC 192.168.1.8) running TVH 4.3-109 as the primary recorder and player for the house. Around the bedrooms office etc i have a series of Raspberry Pi's running OpenElec as we don't have Coax cabling in the house.

I'm trying to have the Media-PC render a VLC stream of a USB Analoge tv capture device which is plugged into Media-PC. I can make this work by setting up the VLC Stream and then opening (via VLC on networked Mac) on http://192.168.1.8:8083/1

I want this feed to appear as a "channel" in my OpenElec boxes. To date no luck with this. In earlier versions of TVH i have had this working but cannot for the life of me figure out the 4.3.x method.

I have created both Auto and non networks and to Muxes with a variety of options. to date no luck. When clicking on the "play this stream" option in Muxes it opens in VLC for me but nothing plays. I can still connect to it with my Mac s the stream is running fine however.

Below is the output i'm getting to the playlist file.

Thanks for any help offered, i know its an odd request but it would be much appreciated any pointers.

-------Downloaded m3u file when clicking "Play Stream"-----

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,SkyTv / SkyFeeds

http://192.168.1.8:9981/stream/mux/bceaa9756535c7b0775df0315cb2e416?ticket=B4D1568B28A39EFB3DE02A5047C26F0E1BB7E55F

mpmc

You need to make sure the vlc output is in ts format. You could bypass vlc completely and use something like ffmpeg & the pipe option [in tvh].

Take a look at my answer here: https://tvheadend.org/d/4741-tvheadend-with-analog-tuner?r=25666#message-25666

Brian Blake

Thanks,

Ive had a poke around with ffmpeg and it looks like what i'm after but the command line beats me every time. It would be a heck of a lot simpler once the CLI is mastered i'm sure. Very much the rookie here..... Will have a look at those links and see what i can work out.

Thanks