Problems with av library?

Chris G · 2022-08-24T19:23:50+00:00

I am having a problem with my IPTV streams sometimes taking several retires to begin playing in my client. I am using the linuxserver.io docker container....

Saen Acro

What stream type you use?
HTTP-TS, HLS, RTSP, UDP or other

What version of TVH and what parameters was used on compilation.

Guess same result with FFPROBE

Chris G

Streams could be of any type. I simply restream them using ffmpeg with the command...

ffmpeg -loglevel panic -hide_banner -http_proxy *proxy* -i *link* -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f mpegts pipe:

Here is the small app I made. https://github.com/Chris230291/STB-Proxy

Like I said I use the linuxserver.io docker image. https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-tvheadend

ffprobe seems to have no issues...


Input #0, mpegts, from 'http://10.0.1.200:8084/play/411b77650e174ce4a2478608e4d6a133/47785':
  Duration: N/A, start: 1.400000, bitrate: N/A
  Program 1
    Metadata:
      service_name    : Service01
      service_provider: FFmpeg
  Stream #0:0[0x100]: Video: h264 (Main) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p(progressive), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 30 fps, 30 tbr, 90k tbn
  Stream #0:1[0x101]: Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 131 kb/s

Saen Acro

Is there a good reason to bother with docker?

The native app always works better.

when I see something as this


 make -j 2 && \

instead of this


make -j$(nproc) && \

is clear that someone is learning how to compile

Chris G

Docker is just my preference. I have all my server software in docker containers. The base OS is bare.
Assuming it is a Docker problem, do you think we could try and fix it?

Saen Acro

Docker is one crap pseudo virtualization/sandboxing,
search how to minimize network interference in container NAT

Chris G

I wonder why my streams require the av library to play at all? What ffmpeg command is needed to play without it?

Saen Acro

Chris G wrote:

> I wonder why my streams require the av library to play at all? What ffmpeg command is needed to play without it?

You want to know is it HD or SD,
is it have or no EPG in stream,
what content type and codec use etc.

Chris G

I do not know what the input stream into my ffmpeg command could be. It can change from stream to stream.
I want a one-size-fits-all command to ensure the output is tvheadend compatible without the need for the av library.

Saen Acro

include transcoding in the proxy and all will work
https://github.com/segator/proxylive https://github.com/eriksl/streamproxy https://github.com/jannispl/node-e2transcoder

Chris G

Thanks for the links.

I wonder what this means?


Could not find codec parameters for stream 0 (Video: h264, 1 reference frame ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), none(left)): unspecified size
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' and 'probesize' options

Is this something that can be increased by me or does it have to be done in the source?

Chris G

I should also add that it isn't a docker issue.
The same thing happens when I installed TVH natively following the documentation on Ubuntu server.