Trying out a new 200mb upload speed, using a Pi 3 to as a test server and it won’t remote stream to another Apple TV, tells me my server isn’t capable of transcoding but it shouldn’t have to transcode right??
This is a bug that was just fixed. Try the latest beta app.
Great, figured that’s all it was, I’ll test this afternoon
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@tmm1 Just out of curiosity, if the DVR utilized the MEPG2 HW license available for the Pi 3 would it be powerful enough to transcode a single stream?
Just tried it out after updating the iPad app and got a spinning wheel with blank picture, haven’t tried with the apple tv yet.
Also showing 0 of 0GB available on DVR despite having a 1tb recording drive, when trying to playback a recording at original quality I get a transcoder error message. All of this is still iPad app testing.
The expensive part of transcoding is encoding into h264. That doesn’t work well on the pi.
Oops previous fix was for live tv only. Pushing new build with recording playback fix.
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Gotcha, tested on an Apple TV and got the same results as the iPad, original quality on both live TV gets a spinning wheel and recordings have a transcoder error. Feel free to login to my server if you need to test.
Tried the update that just released, no longer getting a transcode error for recordings but live and recorded still have black screens with a spinning wheel.
Any errors in the DVR Log?
Permission denied, everything works fine locally. Installed on the latest raspbian release and had to install ntfs through terminal for the USB HDD to be writable, does channels need to be installed on the external storage itself?
No the software should be installed on the system drive.
The permission error is probably trying to write to that ntfs mount. I imagine the same errors would occur if you tried to record something. What’s the full log message?
017/12/09 23:23:10 [TNR] Opened connection to 1321FE7D for ch807
2017/12/09 23:23:10 [HLS] Starting transcoder for channel 807 (encoder=remux, resolution=, deinterlacer=, bitrate=10000)
Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?): Permission denied
2017/12/09 23:23:20 [HLS] Stopping transcoder session ANY-ch807 @ 0s
2017/12/09 23:23:20 [TNR] Closed connection to 1321FE7D for ch807
2017/12/09 23:24:02 [HLS] Starting transcoder for file-1 at 0s (encoder=remux, resolution=, deinterlacer=, bitrate=10000)
/media/pi/Passport/DVR/Movies/Toy Story (1995) 2017-12-08-2306.mpg: Permission denied
I was able to record and watch live TV and recordings locally
Check the permissions on the DVR/Streaming directory, or delete it so the software can recreate it.
Ok, not sure whats going on… When I first connected the drive yesterday it was seen as read only so I installed the NTFS sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g at that point I could create a new folder, named it DVR and pointed channels to it. It seems like after rebooting it has become read only again. I’m not on location now and can’t remote into it so I’ll have to try something tomorrow. Thanks for the help, if you know of an easy fix for remounting the drive properly let me know!
You probably need to fix your /etc/fstab to make sure it uses ntfs-3g on reboot
Ok, I’ll read up on it, if you know a command right off let me know if not I’m sure I’ll be able to find it.
What does “mount” say?
Only access I have atm is through the DVR interface, the drive originally mounted under /media/pi/ I can access a local computer tomorrow and should be able to ssh into the pi from there to make changes