I can only watch HD channels

Mike Porter

Hi Guys,

Im a newbee so be gentle with me.

I have a rpi 4 8gb, with a Pi TV hat. I have installed debian Buster and Tvheadend.

I have scanned for channels and have found 14 muxes with 116 mapped channels.

For some reason I can only watch the HD ones (very good quality picture) when I try to watch the SD ones the live tv player says "An unknown error occurred" I cant even record the HD channels (although I can watch them)

Also the EPG doesnt have any "title, Extra text or Episode" information in it.

Ive spent two days on this and im pulling my hair out.

Can anyone help me please?

Mike

Saen Acro

What player you use?
Some web player?

Mike Porter

It’s the live tv player that’s built into tvheadend

Saen Acro

Use transcoding to watch non html5 supported codecs,
or simply use KODI with TVH HTSP PVR plugin.

DaveH

Mike Porter wrote:

> It’s the live tv player that’s built into tvheadend

I don't think there's any player built in. When I click on play it offers me a dialog asking what application to start. What version of TVH?

What country are you in? There's no episode data in my UK system.

What do the configuration pages show? e.g. in my case DVB Inputs/Muxes

What does the log show?

Saen Acro

Dave H wrote:
> Mike Porter wrote:
> > It’s the live tv player that’s built into tvheadend
>

> I don't think there's any player built in. When I click on play it offers me a dialog asking what application to start. What version of TVH?

There is long time ago based on buildin in used browser HTML5 player
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#Browser_support

https://www.encoding.com/html5-video-codec/

But as can be seen mpeg2 is not supported

OMX is not used to transcode to supported format
use some open/libre/alex ELEC image and use HDMI Out

Mike Porter

Hi,

Ive attached an image of my install of Tvheadend.
This is the player in the program, on the left is a TV screen and on the right is a button this is where its accessed.

this is version 4.3-1857

As mentioned before I can see all the HD channels but cant see the SD channels.

I also cant record anything.

Any help anyone can give me will be very much appreciated, as at the moment its almost usless to me

Im running this on a rpi with Debian Buster and a Pi TV Hat.

Mike

Mike Porter

If I need a more up to date version, I have no problems with installing it if someone can tell me where I download it from.

Thank you.

Mike

Flole

Latest source code is on GitHub.

Mike Porter

HI,

Ive already done that and the pi says:

"tvheadend:armhf is already the newest version (4.3-1857~g221c29b40~raspbianbuster)."

Flole

Then you didn't clone, build or install the latest version.

Mike Porter

From what I understand (which isnt a lot) The version I am using is the latest version for the 64bit processor that im using.

If im wrong in this please tell me where I can get the latest version from.

Thank you for your help.

Mike

Flole

As I said: Latest version is on GitHub. There is no reason why it can't be compiled for arm64.

Mike Porter

Ive just found this:

https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend

im just looking up how to build from source now as ive never done it before

Saen Acro

Thats what user#14626 try to say, is that you must make alone latest version from source with is in Github.

You use developer board, so no need to be hard for you to make package and install it.
Some manual
https://tvheadend.org/d/4492-manual-building-deb-packages-on-clean-ubuntu-or-other-debian-distros

Mike Porter

Ive tried making it from source code and its not happenng.

Are we sure its because I need the latest version of tvheadend?

Saen Acro

Use some tvh client to watch

Web player is not good solution.

https://libreelec.tv/downloads_new/

Mike Porter

Im not using a web player

Saen Acro

Mike Porter wrote:

> Im not using a web player

Then what player you use?

Mike Porter

As it says above, im using the player within tvheadend