Chrome Capture for Channels

I've had a similar experience streaming on FIOS. I do not have a dedicated system, it's sharing its time with Homebridge, Frigate, Channels DVR, and a bunch of other small things. CPU hovers around 50% when streaming and recording with a lot of stutter.

It seems like watching live is better than recording and streaming, so I was thinking of trying to get a dedicated system. Might not make a big difference.

@masteryoda305, Do you have a separate GPU in the current system? I found that even a modest GPU will offload quite a bit from the CPU. My dedicated system has an old GTX1050 in it. And, while it is not absolutely perfect, there is very little stutter.

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No, it's an intel Integrated Graphics Intel HD Graphics 530 via the Linux Docker Container.

When I monitor intel_gpu_top after going through all the steps I put in above, I see IMC reads/writes go up but I do not see the busy%s go up for the various engines.

The big remaining feature I can't get to work is gpu_compositing, which I believe is why weatherscan is not rendering correctly.

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Ah, gotcha. I never used the Docker solution for CC4C. For me it runs natively on an old i7-8700/GTX-1050 PC, running Win 11 Pro.

Ive been running CC4C on a dedicated I5-8500 3.03hz running 48 gig ram and a 490gb m.2 ssd Onboard graphics Mayne ill look for a low profile card an see if it helps etc Its in a HP SFF desktop

did you ever have any luck with the Raspberry PI?

i've had no issues with this for a while but today this seems broken... not sure what changed. anybody else having issues?

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I just checked, and seems to be working for me.

i'm running on windows... wonder if a chrome update broke it for me.

Node server runs and video is displayed in the Chrome window that pops up. The video appears to never be served to channels...

I had disabled Chrome updates on mine, so, I believe I'm still on version 114, if memory serves.

There are 1400 messages here. I have read a lot of them. Still don't know what I'm doing. I tried using docker. Got no video. Tried .EXE for win-64, Weatherscan shows video, but audio keeps cutting in and out. Command screen shows:

[2024/03/07 15:31:00.740] Chrome Capture server listening on port 5589
[2024/03/07 15:31:52.177] streaming https://weatherscan.net/
[2024/03/07 15:33:17.081] streaming https://windy.com
[2024/03/07 15:36:00.059] streaming https://weatherscan.net/
[2024/03/07 15:39:04.087] streaming https://weatherscan.net/

Windy shows video with no audio. Not sure if it has any audio.

Any hints on what to try next?

New info:
My GPU is running at 85% to 99% while Chrome capture is running.

want to update after uninstalling and reinstalling chrome it works again. not sure what the issues were.

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Hi all, I am giving this a go on Windows 11. I got the weatherscan to show but all youtubetv channels give me a white screen.

11th Gen Intel Core [email protected]
24GB memory

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I think we know that YTTV does not work reliably with CC4C. It works very well with ADBTuner, however. But, that requires additional hardware.

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Thanks, I ordered a URayCoder HEVC H.265 H.264 Live HDMI Video Encoder this morning. Thought I give this a shot until I receive it 2morrow.

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I removed Chrome and reinstalled. I now have version 122.0. Is this version okay? If not, where do I get a better one?

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I tried Philo tv and now get the live TV stream. Great work, thanks again.

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@TV_Ken, I'm still on version 114 with no issues, for what that is worth. I'm not using the PC running CC4C for anything else, so I'm not too concerned about keeping that outdated version running. I've used uptodown to pull previous versions in the past.

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Nope, unfortunately :pensive:. If you manage to get anywhere, let me know! Still would be great, and, if someone can get it to work reliably for NBC, I’d probably use that instead of my Mac solution!