Where are you watching the video? Channels app? on Android? Apple TV? In a browser?
Ahhh yes tmm1 ;-). Channels App under Chrome ... Or Brave
ffmpeg is used to convert the video into a format which is compatible with browsers.
You would have a better experience using the regular Channels app. Or you can try the VLC integration.
thank you tmm1. Is there a guide on VLC integration with Channels?
And another note. On an older desktop runnin the same version of Channels and Windows 10 Pro/Ultra I do not see ffmpeg running. Very interesting.
You're probably watching a channel which doesn't need to be converted then?
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tmm1.
Will those new settings prevent those channels from being converted via ffmpeg?
I set up those checkboxes under Channels and downloaded those exe packages and successfully ran the bat file under VLC. In the DOS Prompt I saw the EXE was updated successfully
Are there instructions how to use this under VLC. This is totally new to me.
Thank you for your patience.
Jeff
Still not seeing the VLC integration under the Watch Tab. And I did close down the browser and restarted.
. though I successfully updated the BAT command.
**tmm1 **
FIXED 
**I fixed the problem myself. The VLC Links checkbox was not clicked. I thought that was supposed to be unclicked but it works beautifully now. **
thank you. clean and beautiful playback now
I'm having a similar problem playing from web browsers, except the stream never starts, just says "waiting", and when trying to play using vlc, just a blank screen. This has only been happening for a couple days. Tried reinstalling from scratch and even changing computers for the server. Is it an account issue?
You would have to check the Log to see what's going on, or narrow down the issue by seeing which sources are causing the issue. If its an HDHR source then you can try the official HDHomeRun app see if it can play from that source.
Using the troubleshooters, I see a problem: Remote Access
Could not connect to 3452c3b82254.u.channelsdvr.net. Check if the port is mapped.
It's all sources. I didn't change any mapping, that I'm aware of. Interesting thing is the client apps work fine. But I would like to watch video using my browser. Any suggestions?
You can try:
- upgrade to prerelease
- change Transcoder setting to Software
- use VLC integration
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2023/03/31 17:21:06.738622 [HLS] Stopping transcoder session ch6035-dANY-ip192.168.1.100
2023/03/31 17:24:07.140525 [NAT] Found 2 UPnP routers
2023/03/31 17:24:07.155347 [NAT] Successfully mapped port 8089 using upnp
2023/03/31 17:24:08 [Recovery] 2023/03/31 - 17:24:08 panic recovered:
runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
runtime/panic.go:260 (0x3a14b5)
runtime/signal_windows.go:255 (0x3a1485)
github.com/fancybits/channels-server/http_dvr_clients.go:188 (0x1570c31)
github.com/fancybits/channels-server/http_device.go:655 (0x15630e9)
github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/context.go:169 (0x155be81)
github.com/fancybits/channels-server/http_device.go:87 (0x155bdac)
github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/context.go:169 (0x1553c03)
github.com/fancybits/channels-server/http.go:273 (0x15538f7)
github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/context.go:169 (0x155386a)
github.com/fancybits/channels-server/http.go:250 (0x155384f)
github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/context.go:169 (0x1553727)
github.com/fancybits/channels-server/http.go:242 (0x155309a)
github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/context.go:169 (0x9857c1)
github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/recovery.go:107 (0x9857ac)
github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/context.go:169 (0x984906)
github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/logger.go:240 (0x9848e9)
github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/context.go:169 (0x10a30b9)
github.com/gin-contrib/[email protected]/sessions.go:65 (0x10a30a5)
github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/context.go:169 (0x109d2c1)
github.com/gin-contrib/[email protected]/gzip.go:47 (0x109d299)
github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/context.go:169 (0x15544a5)
github.com/fancybits/channels-server/http.go:363 (0x1554491)
github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/context.go:169 (0x983a10)
github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/gin.go:598 (0x983678)
github.com/gin-gonic/[email protected]/gin.go:554 (0x9831b1)
net/http/server.go:2947 (0x67968b)
net/http/server.go:1991 (0x674966)
runtime/asm_amd64.s:1594 (0x3bef20)
Probably has something to do with dual NAT through my ISP. Strange that it was working fine until 2 days ago.
That issue is fixed in prerelease.
It seems that I've got everything working now except TVE for local channels. As an aside, a fresh install of the latest stable release behaves the same as the prerelease (all non-local TVE channels were able to be streamed. A Hulu channel scan finds the channels, but no stream. I understand that local TVE is experimental and no fix may exist, but here is the log for one of the failed streams. A bit baffling since these streams worked flawlessly until 3 days ago.
2023/03/31 19:14:20.085605 [TNR] Opened connection to TVE-Hulu for ch6003 KIRO
2023/03/31 19:14:20.091450 [HLS] Starting live stream for channel 6003 from 127.0.0.1 (bitrate=9858)
2023/03/31 19:14:28.489300 [HLS] Stopping transcoder session ch6003-dANY-ip127.0.0.1
2023/03/31 19:14:28.492818 [ERR] Probe failed for live stream after 8.4013686s and 0 bytes
2023/03/31 19:14:28.513361 [HLS] Couldn't generate stream playlist for ch6003-dANY-ip127.0.0.1: Stream stopped
2023/03/31 19:14:28.543379 [HLS] ffmpeg: ch6003-dANY-ip127.0.0.1-remux: Output file #0 does not contain any stream
2023/03/31 19:14:28.570676 [TNR] Closed connection to TVE-Hulu for ch6003 KIRO
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