OpenDCT: An open source digital cable tuner.

[graywolf]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

I want to say thanks ... This plugin makes the Android miniclient better than the HD300 I have replaced them with FireTV 4K. Now I can watch LiveTV with CC.

In what ways would you say it is better than the HD300?
Curious since I've only used the HD200s/HD300s

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by graywolf

In what ways would you say it is better than the HD300?
Curious since I've only used the HD200s/HD300s

It plays H265 and other formats. And it is not near end of life. Plus a FireTV 4K is only $49 dollars cheaper during Prime Day.

[sacrament055]

I've enabled CC on Open DCT and it does appear to be creating the cc1 and cc2 files correctly.
Here's my problem, when I went to enable CC on my Android Mini Client CC doesn't work but I can click on subtitles and it will start showing them. In the case where a show had 2 subtitles 1 in English and 1 in Spanish It started showing both of them. My question is has anybody else seen this and if so how can I select only the English subtitles?

Obviously not an issue for shows that only have an English CC stream.

Edit:

I just realized that it actually put both the Spanish and English subtitles (CC Streams) into the *.cc1.srt file and the CC2 file is 1KB and has basically nothing in it.

So my question now becomes what have I dont wrong in my CC configuration for OpenDCT to cause this.
My OpenDCT.properties file looks like this for CC config

consumer.ffmpeg.ccextractor_all_streams=true
consumer.ffmpeg.ccextractor_custom_options=
consumer.ffmpeg.ccextractor_enabled=true

And I set these per other's experiences with this being required

consumer.ffmpeg.upload_id_enabled=false
consumer.raw.upload_id_enabled=false

[sacrament055]

I think I just answered my own question.

changing
consumer.ffmpeg.ccextractor_all_streams=false

Should do it per the documentation I've seen so I'm off to give that a shot.

Edit: That didn't work, now only creating a .CC1 file but it's 0KB.

[sic0048]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

It plays H265 and other formats. And it is not near end of life. Plus a FireTV 4K is only $49 dollars cheaper during Prime Day.

You can save $25 off a Firestick 4k (making it just $25) with the code "4KFIRETV" at checkout. This has been valid for a while now. I'm not sure how long it will continue, but it works as of the time of this post.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by sic0048

You can save $25 off a Firestick 4k (making it just $25) with the code "4KFIRETV" at checkout. This has been valid for a while now. I'm not sure how long it will continue, but it works as of the time of this post.

not working now .... I just read it might not work for everyone but it is worth a try thanks for posting.

[KryptoNyte]

And if you've already used the code once it won't let you use it a second time.

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by sacrament055

I think I just answered my own question.

changing
consumer.ffmpeg.ccextractor_all_streams=false

Should do it per the documentation I've seen so I'm off to give that a shot.

Edit: That didn't work, now only creating a .CC1 file but it's 0KB.

If you can provide a sample video file to me, I can do a little testing. I suspect something is up with the stream itself based on what you have described so far.

[deanm]

I have ran into an issue that is causing me a few problems.

When connecting to http:// streams can OpenDCT handle https:// redirects?

In the logs i see the following line

18:40:56.347 [SageTVRequestHandler-57:IPTV02] INFO NIOHttpDownloader - HTTP redirect: https://xxxxxxxxx
18:40:56.411 [SageTVRequestHandler-57:IPTV02] ERROR NIOHttpDownloader - HTTP Error: 'HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request',

If I copy the https://xxxxxx redirect and drop it into VLC the Steam plays fine.

Dean

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by deanm

I have ran into an issue that is causing me a few problems.

When connecting to http:// streams can OpenDCT handle https:// redirects?

In the logs i see the following line

18:40:56.347 [SageTVRequestHandler-57:IPTV02] INFO NIOHttpDownloader - HTTP redirect: https://xxxxxxxxx
18:40:56.411 [SageTVRequestHandler-57:IPTV02] ERROR NIOHttpDownloader - HTTP Error: 'HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request',

If I copy the https://xxxxxx redirect and drop it into VLC the Steam plays fine.

Dean

That handler cannot do SSL. You can try changing from opendct.producer.NIOHTTPProducerImpl to opendct.producer.HTTPProducer in opendct.properties. I don't recall if that one will gracefully work with SSL.

[sacrament055]

Originally Posted by EnterNoEscape

If you can provide a sample video file to me, I can do a little testing. I suspect something is up with the stream itself based on what you have described so far.

I think I've seen it twice when I've tested during the "Today" show from this morning when I did a test. Unfortunately I didn't save the snippet and Sage has removed it. I'll try it again later

Here's a sample of what I'm seeing in the cc1.SRT (Starting at 4 it integrates Spanish and English) My cc2.srt is created but blank

1
00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:10,876
AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE LEAGUE,
THE NUMBER OF OPT OUT IS TINY.

2
00:00:10,878 --> 00:00:11,443
THE NUMBER OF OPT OUT IS TINY.
IT'S LIKE 2%.

3
00:00:11,445 --> 00:00:12,111
IT'S LIKE 2%.
BUT SYMBOLICALLY IT IS HUGE.

4
00:00:09,109 --> 00:00:12,978
>>> BUENOS DÍAS, CRAIG.
EL PORCENTAJE DE JUGADORES QUE

5
00:00:12,113 --> 00:00:13,145
BUT SYMBOLICALLY IT IS HUGE.
WHETHER PLAYERS ARE SITTING OUT

6
00:00:12,980 --> 00:00:13,712
EL PORCENTAJE DE JUGADORES QUE
SE MARGINARON ES DE UN 2%, PERO

[deanm]

I tried changing that setting, but then noticed the following in the logs. This is after the redirect.

00:12:38.381 [SageTVRequestHandler-55:IPTV01] ERROR NIOHTTPProducerImpl - Unable to connect to the URL '

When I stop the OpenDCT services I see that the setting has changed back to NIOHTTPProducerImpl

Is there any other HTTP settings I could try?

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by deanm

I tried changing that setting, but then noticed the following in the logs. This is after the redirect.

00:12:38.381 [SageTVRequestHandler-55:IPTV01] ERROR NIOHTTPProducerImpl - Unable to connect to the URL '

When I stop the OpenDCT services I see that the setting has changed back to NIOHTTPProducerImpl

Is there any other HTTP settings I could try?

There are not. SSL was never tested. It's unlikely I will get around to fixing this any time soon, but you're welcome to open an issue on GitHub that so I won't forget to look into it the next time I'm working on the source code. As a workaround, you could use ffmpeg to stream the URL to OpenDCT. I think there are some examples in one of the threads in the forum on this.

Edit: I found this that might do what you want:

ffmpeg.exe -i https://hostname/live -c copy -f mpegts -

[boukmandutty]

I have recurring issue with one of my hdmi encoders that I suspect is opendct related. While on of my tuners works perfectly and tunes to channels quickly the other sometimes takes a long time to tune. I can see the progress bar going forward but there is no picture until quite a bit after.

On a hunch I tuned to a channels as you will see in the logs and watched simultaneously in vlc and SageTV. What I saw in vlc was that the channel was immediately tuned upon request. In SageTV it took a whole minute and half before I saw anything on the screen (sometimes it takes longer). While it was loading on SageTV I noticed in vlc that the blaster command kept on repeating itself until SageTV was able to get a signal.

A section from my log where this happens is attached. The problematic tuner is EncoderB. Like I said the other one, EncoderA is flawless in its tuning.

[deanm]

Originally Posted by EnterNoEscape

ffmpeg.exe -i https://hostname/live -c copy -f mpegts -

Just wanted to say thank you thank you. This worked a charm.

Only issue I found is on one or two channels the audio is out of sync by a good 10 seconds.

Need to play around with the settings to see what I can adjust.


Dean

[AlphaCrew]

I have searched and search but can't find it ("I know it's around here somewhere").

How do I use ffmpeg to correct the stream coming from my Ceton InfiniTV 4? (the InfiniTV 4 's has a well know MPEG stream problem, and must be 'corrected' before consumption)

I currently used MCEBuddy to correct this issue post recording, but I have need now to have the stream correct at the point of recording.

Help a 'blind' man find those settings..

TIA

[jpwegas]

Originally Posted by AlphaCrew

How do I use ffmpeg to correct the stream coming from my Ceton InfiniTV 4? (the InfiniTV 4 's has a well know MPEG stream problem, and must be 'corrected' before consumption)

Try changing consumer.dynamic.default to use opendct.consumer.FFmpegTransSageTVConsumerImpl as nyplayer mentions in this post:

https://forums.sagetv.com/forums/sho...&postcount=259

Here's an older link where ENE suggests just using the FFmpeg consumer and also enabling the upload ID:

https://forums.sagetv.com/forums/sho...postcount=1871

--John

[AlphaCrew]

Originally Posted by jpwegas

Try changing consumer.dynamic.default to use opendct.consumer.FFmpegTransSageTVConsumerImpl as nyplayer mentions in this post:

https://forums.sagetv.com/forums/sho...&postcount=259

Here's an older link where ENE suggests just using the FFmpeg consumer and also enabling the upload ID:

https://forums.sagetv.com/forums/sho...postcount=1871

--John

Thanks, strangely enough those settings where already in place.

Then I made the fatal mistake of re-installing OpenDCT.... That ended in disaster, I'm now recovering the C drive via backup.

[AlphaCrew]

Back up and running again with my backup. After things settle down, I'm going to try and figure out why re-installing OpenDCT mucked up the system so badly.

I'm thinking my conversion issues are related to the chosen format. (the reason why all this started). After more research, it appears it is the h.264 formats that are failing. AVI formats don't seem to error out.

[AlphaCrew]

Feel like I'm about to poke an angry bear with this move...

I have a working infinitv 4 system and I about to receive a infinitv 6 card this week.

How should I go about swapping the Infinity4 with the Infinity6?