Jellyfin M3u8

[Darci Carlton]

The fix is not really a fix. I have to uninstall jellyfin completely and reinstall it. Any ideas? I cant find anything specific to jellyfin on google. All i find is this error while the fix being reinstalling it.

So I created a new vm from scratch an so far no issues. It seemed like my having selected a 10gb vm for jellyfin was unwise. it kept filling up the file system. I created a new vm from scratch @ 80gb. One thing I noticed is docker in the vm works with cuda and properly transcodes everything.

I am probably going to use one my 2tb satas for the transcode dedication. Now I did just increase the file system to 250gb. But I have two game drives and one of them is ever used anyways. I might passthrough the entire ssd.

The Jellyfin page has a good informational "guide" for that in regards to the settings -acceleration/intel/
They do not list every codec setting for each generation but theres a section called "transcode other codecs" which will send you to the intel page with the infos.

Mhmm. its not even trying to use the hardware decoder. Do you have other video files to test?

Otherwise heres a bunch of hevc 10 bit testfiles



Edit: On second look, seems like jellyfin is only remuxing the audio, you could try to force 360p to actually transcode the video.

Please don't quote me on that but IIRC this feature was working if it was selected but was ultimately deactivated by the devs in a point release because it caused huge issues with Dolby Vision content, so tho speak, this options does nothing.

EDIT: I just tried it now and it defaults always to h264 regardless what is set in the server options, however if you force HLS in the Jellyfin app on your device (for example on my iPhone xS) by using their native player it is working and the stream is transcoded or better speaking sent over in h265.

Would have to look into that. Were only using Jellyfin via browser and the Jellycon plugin for Kodi on firetv sticks. I did look into that since there is a force hevc options but that doesnt seem to do much. Still ends up with h264.
Same with the jellyfin plugin for kodi, but that one plays back the original file just fine via direct play. its odd.

Same applies to kodi on the pc only h264 for transcodes, although that one is even stranger for direct playback. Kodi is able to force my monitor in hdr mode despite the fact that hdr is disabled.

But i do use the linuxserver container, so that might be the reason.

Edit: HOLY MOLY the official player app does work on pc, if you force hevc on! By default it just uses h264 instead of trying hevc when it started with direct playback.

My NAS is DS120J and too slow for transcode. I moved to Emby from Jellyfin yesterday (I can stream directly on Jellyfin). I've heard about the ffmpeg bug causing this problem in several threads. Can I get the fix or do I have to go back to jellyfin

Your provider is returning 403 forbidden. You can probably get around that by customizing the user agent and/or referrer header options on the m3u tuner. This will help disguise Emby Server and make it look like it's some other software that your provider won't reject.

Ok, I'm a bit of a n00b to setting this stuff up, but I'm a long time IT guy/Network Engineer, etc. I know my way around linux, mac, windows, whatever. Anyway, here is what I'm trying to accomplish and I'm hoping some of you can clear up a few things and maybe point me in the right direction.

I have a HDHomeRun Quatro, a brand new UnRaid server that I put together and a Channels subscription (along with Hulu Live). On my Unraid server I have experimented with Plex, Jellyfin and some other stuff. When I saw what Channels had to offer with TVE and the ability to output m3u8 and xmltv, I decided to get into it.

Can Jellyfin or other media server platforms actually control Channels-DVR (the actual DVR side) so that when I click record in the jellyfin web app or Kodi client, etc., it actually tells Channels to do the recording and do the comskip and stuff? I assumed that if I pointed the "/dvr" docker folder for Jellyfin to the same folder that Channels uses to handle recordings and that it would somehow magically work. I think at one time, it appeared that way to me, but I was just confused about it and Jellyfin was actually just making it's own recordings and putting them in the same folder the Channels happens to use. I tried pointing at the "/channels-dvr" docker folder mapping since that is where the configuration for Channels resides and now, well, I have ^%%& stored in all kinds of places and my library is a mess.

If this simply isn't possible, is that something that could be possible in the future? I love some of your features, but I'm looking to design a more holistic platform and something that can be replicated and/or shared with my parents. I want to take this further than most would because I see an opportunity here to put together a "product", if you will.

A single, beautiful interface to handle Live OTA TV, ripped DVD's (both movies and TV), music library, streaming services, IPTV, etc. with a nice TV guide and a familiar set top box look/feel. Something my Grandma (God rest her soul) would have been able to use after I put it all together and package it. Oh, multiple user / profile support with settings differences for each user is also a must. Kodi seems to be a great front-end for it all.

So, can I take advantage of the Channels actual DVR functionality without using its' interface? Or am I stuck using the DVR functionality of Jellyfin, Plex, or similar? I'd really like Channels to handle as much of this as possible so I can present a single "tuner" to Jellyfin that has the proper channel listings for everything OTA, IPTV and TVE (Your m3u8/XMLTV interface is GREAT! I love that you can edit it right in the web app). The ultimate goal would be to have an OTA tuner such as HDHomeRun -> Channels ->Jellyfin -> Kodi. I'm just wanting to get the best features of each combined, where possible. Then I can share my stuff with my parents over the Internet and they can cancel their Google Fiber TV service finally and we can share a single DVR system that just happens to also have everything combined into a nice looking interface that won't confuse them. I should mention that I also have Google Fiber, we are only like 10 miles apart, so it'll almost be like we're literally on the same LAN with 1Gbps.

Any help to know what folders to map where would be greatly appreciated, as would any other advice, threads to read that I might have missed or didn't quite grasp when I read through them before, or anything else you may have for me.

It sounds like you want to abandon the Channels interface and use it like a network DVR and actually the view the content and schedule recordings from another system. I am not aware of a API will do that.

You can easily pull the shows and movies into Plex or Jellyfin and that should work well. I know it does in Plex but have not tried it with Jellyfin. But you will still have to schedule recordings in Channels.

I encourage you to give Channels a solid try. The interface is not as flashy as platforms like Plex but it is improving quickly and it is more responsive than any other platform I have tried by far -- especially with live TV. I have been using Plex for 7 years and have been reasonably happy. I found Channels about a year ago after being really frustrated with the DVR in Plex. Channels already had a better DVR when I started but development over the past year has been extremely rapid -- especially when you consider that channels is developed by a three person team. Long story short, I now have a short list of things I am looking for, then I will dump Plex all together and have a single simple interface to consume media.

I think you'll find that Channels is more "grandma" friendly than the other stuff you mentioned like Plex. Repeatedly you will see people report that Channels is very high on the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor), and my wife is about as hard to get to accept something as anyone. I have most of the Disney movies we watch with the kids recorded now in Channels, and even though we have a Disney+ subscription, she will end up watching it in Channels most of the time even though she has to hit the commercial skip button. Its just more convenient for her.

That said, the libraries that Channels creates are standard stuff so you can just point your media apps at it, but I don't think the commercial skips from Channels will work with them because its just inserted markers and not a destructive commercial removal.

I've used Channels DVR off and on for a couple years. In fact, I had my parents trying to use it for a bit to see if they could live with it over their more traditional setup offered by Google. They've now abandoned it, like Google has a habit of doing. My parents are grandfathered in, but we have no idea how long that will last. I'm sure they will start pushing users off that don't leave on their own in short order.

Channels alone just isn't going to cut it for them. They're in their 60's and 70's and somewhat tech-limited. My father used to be a programmer for the Government, but he gets confused with the newer stuff due to age and losing some mental capacity. Switching back and forth between the streaming services and regular TV via the Google box is already a challenge. And I tried both an Apple TV 4th gen and also an Amazon Fire TV. It took me forever to get them to understand the difference between Amazon Prime, Amazon Prime Video and the Fire TV device. So, yeah, they need something SIMPLE.

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