Wrapping each stream URL with a pipe to ffmpeg?

John Woznack

I'm testing out using a Tvheadend docker from lscr.io/linuxserver/tvheadend (v24, 4.3-2634_geb023c573).
I've got it up and running, but the majority of the muxes failed the scan. Looking deeper, I discovered that if I wrap the mux URL with a pipe to ffmpeg, it magically works.

e.g. Instead of just:

<mux_url_here>

I do:

pipe:///usr/bin/ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel fatal -i <mux_url_here> -c copy -f mpegts pipe:1

Any idea why that works?

Also, is there an easy way to "globally" wrap all stream URLs like this?

TIA.

p.s. I'm using Ubuntu 24.04, if that makes any difference.

Chris G

Try enabling "Use A/V library" on the network.

John Woznack

Chris G Didn't help. That's why I ended up wrapping the mux url like I said.

Tony Wagner

In what format are the muxes?

You can pipe the whole network if you want: https://tvheadend.org/d/9360-urls-of-iptv-muxes-are-always-rewritten-a-day-after/2

John Woznack

Tony Wagner The mux url are just http links. FWIW, I ended up doing something similar - "pre-processed" the main .m3u file and embedded a pipe to a bash script to modify each mux url. It works, but I was hoping there was a "more elegant" solution.