Crashing when adding my m3u url

Emile Jaacques

I'm trying to get tvheadend running. I installed it, go through the initial setup, languages, user accounts, then when I add my m3u URL, I get "transaction aborted", web UI becomes unresponsive and the tvheadend process uses 100% CPU. I let it run for 1h and still unresponsive. My CPU is a modern one, it's not slow by any means. I tried restarting tvheadend but stays unresponsive until I delete the config and start all over again. No error in logs. Last log I get is: [ INFO] bouquet: new bouquet 'IPTV Automatic Network'

Any tips?
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Jonas Lang

What is the source of your m3u.Does it require authentication credentials to run.

Emile Jaacques

It's a xtream url which I concatenate get.php with my username and password

Emile Jaacques

I let it run overnight and it managed to scan some:
2023-03-18 09:28:22.304 [ INFO] subscription: 006B: "scan" subscribing to mux "iptv.m3u - FE10", weight: 5, adapter: "IPTV #1", network: "IPTV Automatic Network", service: "Raw PID Subscription"
2023-03-18 09:42:32.984 [ INFO] iptv: m3u parse: 0 new mux(es) in network 'IPTV Automatic Network' (total 219216)
2023-03-18 09:42:32.995 [ INFO] mpegts: iptv.m3u - F in IPTV Automatic Network - scan no data, failed
It scans about 3 per hour and there's 200k+

Jonas Lang

Honestly TVH is not something I’d choose for IPTV. It’s not one of its strengths.

Flole

If you have it configured with an unlimited amount of streams your CPU probably isn't enough for over 200000 simultaneous streams. Probably even your connection isn't fast enough either, that's 200 Gbit/s if each stream has only 1 Mbit/s.

If you're trying to use the EPG grabber for streams that don't have an EPG it will take a long time until a timeout is reached eventually.

xbmc gothm

Jonas Lang wrote:

> Honestly TVH is not something I’d choose for IPTV. It’s not one of its strengths.

Hi Jonas, what software would you recommend for using with xtream codes if tvheadend is not really compatible with this kind of iptv source?
Thanks

Jonas Lang

In Kodi something like IPTV Simple Client. It handles large m3u lists quite well.

xbmc gothm

Jonas Lang wrote:

> In Kodi something like IPTV Simple Client. It handles large m3u lists quite well.

Thanks for your quick response.

But this won’t allow for recording and I would need to set this up in each of the kodi clients. I also have Emby clients which I am hoping I could connect all to 1 central server on my netwerk that connects to a iptv provider. Any other suggestions in this situation you could think off?

tvheadend might still be workable, but then I hope you could recommend a paid iptv provider that can connect easily to it? I have difficulties finding a provider that can work with tvheadend.

Jonas Lang

Unfortunately you don’t mention what hardware or what flavour of Linux you use but while I generally don’t recommend one option over another you could try NextPVR for Linux. Personally I don’t use IPTV (no need for it) but I think it might work for you for recording purposes. Check it out here https://www.nextpvr.com/

xbmc gothm

Jonas Lang wrote:

> Unfortunately you don’t mention what hardware or what flavour of Linux you use but while I generally don’t recommend one option over another you could try NextPVR for Linux. Personally I don’t use IPTV (no need for it) but I think it might work for you for recording purposes. Check it out here https://www.nextpvr.com/

Thanks for the tip! I will give that a try.

I am flexible with hardware as I use VMs to spin up the OS best suitable for the software needed.

Have a nice evening.

Jonas Lang

Well maybe if you spin up something to suit NextPVR that could be your issue solved.

poly_boi

Emile Jaacques wrote:

> It's a xtream url which I concatenate get.php with my username and password

Can you tell me how you did that please?