Couple ideas- but this is almost certainly your network setup.
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try changing the FastChannels Server URL In admin/settings to your TailScale dns name
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you could also try disabling image proxy in admin/settings as well
@Fofer as I suspected, their site is just synchronized MP4 files that playback in a browser, rather than a continuous HLS or MPEG-TS feed. I’ve seen a few of these recently … it makes it feel like you’re watching a “live stream” but it’s really just some video files on archive.org ..
I mean, it’s technically possible if you had a program that would remux the mp4 into a HLS stream (like ffmpeg), but FC doesn’t do that. I should add- if you used that GitHub project - that’s exactly what he did. You could in theory run that program, then import it’s m3u/xml into FC under custom playlists. But pretty heavy stuff on your server. So is the juice worth the squeeze? This is the playground!
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As ususual, you are a genius. Question: what will happen back on the home network? I am using http://jim-xxxxxx-3046.taixxxxl.ts.net:5523 dns setting as FastChannels Server URL. Since I am traveling in the RV, can't see the AppleTV boxes at the house....
@Jim_FL could add his AppleTVs to his Tailnet, so that his new FastChannels URL will resolve.
Personally, I use Tailscale's MagicDNS, and then I have those same MagicDNS names set up as resolvable hostnames on my LAN.
That way the same hostname (by itself, without any domain name appended) resolves to the same machine either over Tailscale or the local network.
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@KineticMan apologies if this was already answered somewhere but I have been reading the help and the github and the forums and either I missed it or I'm bonkers.
I have a source where the EPG data is incomplete, I thought I could add additional sources and map it in FASTChannels but I cannot seem to find where that is?
Yo. No xml mapping support yet. I assume you mean something like Threadfin or M3U manager like Playlist Manager would do. Its definitely on the roadmap but not yet.
You can add a custom m3u/xml under Custom Sources but the mapping gotta be done ahead of time
Appreciate the quick response, I think I figured it out but honestly I don't know what I did. I clicked the little pencil in Manage Lineup on the specific channels and choose from the list (I guess that's a channels feature?) and now I have full data on that channel.
Is there a way to get the ESPN channels to play fullscreen? When the video starts, there is a message to press Space or the F key to go fullscreen. Obviously I can vnc into the server and do that, but a family member can't. Thanks.
i wish... stupid Chrome full-screen restriction. sorry out of my hands.
Np, I just thought I was missing a setting. Thanks again for this great project!
Pluto: audio out of sync after ad breaks
Where is this setting in the ChannelsDVR?
I would like to verify the setting as I am still having this issue. It's actually worse with all of the political ads. Thank you.
no setting required - it was all behind the scene. where you seeing this on pluto? i thought i had it resolved.
The Midsomer Murders channel of all places -- which was one of the channels that was not affected before.
What was configured behind the scenes? I thought that this was a ChannelsDVR setting. Thank you.
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I explained it post above.
"good news-- figured it out. I had a hardcoded old version of Pluto in FC... The old version of Pluto combined the audio & video into one stream. The new version of Pluto seperates them out. When they started playing some new ads that had only seperated A/V tracks, it made the stream go out of sync. I'll push new version shortly with fix, and some other stuff I've been working on."
Interesting, I thought I was built into Channels. Do I need to select a particular Stream Format in the ChannelsDVR Source? Right now it's set to HLS. Thank you for your efforts.
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nope, HLS is appropriate there. I will run a probe on that to channel to see if anything else I missed, but I suspect maybe just an issue on Pluto's end when you saw it. will report back
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When filtering in the FC Admin, it shows the schools with the team moniker, i.e., Idaho Vandals. Is there a way to capture that in the metadata?
yep - im improving the xml for these event stations in next version. i believe u asked me about that last week (to match similiar to Fruitdeeplinks)
Okay, I would hold off until Wednesday. I have a feeling that it all ends when the political ads stop; I'll post again if it doesn't. Thanks again for all your efforts.