Mythtv should be working finally. Using Tvheadend + https://github.com/bnhf/chrome-capture-for-channels as well.
Was trying to use Dispatcharr, but was having a buffering problem. Eventually got buffering with Tvheadend.
Then figured out there’s settings you can change in Kodi. Those settings should be right for me now as well.
The buffering I’m pretty sure can be caused by the network, but some of those caching settings say it helps lower powered devices as well.
The settings I used on a Atari VCS, may or may not work for say a cheap or old Android TV box.
I only added three channels to Tvheadend from the cc4c stream.
Also, why couldn’t anybody use cc4c for anything other then Channels DVR? Didn’t ask for my Channels DVR info. It’s a Docker image. And most if not all of it is open source. Might be pretty easy to duplicate it with the code they provided, if it stops working because I cancelled Channels DVR.
Works with DirecTV Streaming. And if it stops working, and I can’t fix it, or nobody else fixes it, then I’ll have a reason to cancel that too.
I record some OTA stuff too.
Why not just use Tvheadend? Looks pretty damn complicated, lucky I figured out how to add the streams from cc4c and transcode them without reading much. Used basically the same ffmpeg options as I was using with Dispatcharr.
There’s other things like Dispatcharr as well, but if using a SBC, not sure any support much hardware encoding on any SBC. I was trying to use a static ffmpeg with Dispatcharr, maybe that static ffmpeg has issues. Most of the ones I saw use Docker.
Hmm, xTeVe might not do transcoding. But would be easy to make a M3U possibly with it, and import it into Tvheadend. Then I don’t have to really touch Tvheadend to add more channels. Not really that hard though. No Docker needed for that as well. The other things might work without Docker, if you compile it.
Instead of compiling Dispatcharr or something, modify it, so that it uses some other ffmpeg, there might be a Docker image with a working ffmpeg. Well, Jellyfin Docker image likely works with ffmpeg on my Orange Pi 5.
Why not record TV with Jellyfin? Not sure I like it, and kind of pointless if using Kodi. I can just use Gerbera anyways. Not sure there’s any point, since I can just add the folders from the SBCs directly. But it’s setup.
You only need Jellyfin and crap like that if using a Android TV box or something else like that. Some Apple TVs can run Kodi as well, but do they need transcoding on the server?
Apparently the Amazon Fire crap has issues with Kodi.
Changing the encoding options, on cc4c may have fixed it as well. But I’m lazy, and not sure what all the options are. Can cc4c use a different audio format? Cause that may have been one issue. Looks like it can, wonder what one I’m using. Maybe change that to aac or mp3. Think Tvheadend is using mp3. Too lazy to look or change it. Works fine like this anyways.
The audio and video bitrate might need to be changed as well on cc4c.
Also, the TV Everywhere channel in Channels DVR is not the right number for everything. If using Schedules Direct. And the DirecTV Stream lineup.
Might have fixed itself, if I put in “Discovery Channel” for the channel name. Instead of just “Discovery”.
You can get the right channel, with tv_grep, you run the tv_grab command first and –out to file.xml, then use tv_grep with it. Just search for a show that you know is on the channel you want.
Does that do 4k? And does DirecTV do any 4k at all on anything?
If it does with Android, there’s [ADBTuner](https://adbtuner.github.io/). Does it work with DirecTV though? It sounds like cheap Android TV boxes suck though. Should have kept my NVIDIA Shield, assuming I had one. Apparently Kodi works good on that as well.
Looks like they still make those, but the TV one, not sure that’s good enough. And the Pro one only has 3 GB of RAM. That means my caching settings in Kodi might not work on it. Unless the GPU is better on it, then my Atari VCS, or I have some GPU hardware acceleration setting wrong.
And you might need it plugged in using HDMI to the thing that’s recording it as well. A network capture card, would be the best option for me. Unless one of the SBCs can use my USB capture device, and the capture thing does the encoding. And it still doesn’t need too much CPU. It’s a cheap capture card. Rather buy a network one, instead of some other USB one.
Also, some HDMI things can apparently be hacked to be made into a network capture device, might be even cheaper. Might be HDMI over IP, had one of those.
Unless I don’t hook whatever I buy up to the TV as well. But there’s multiple questions to answer, if DirecTV doesn’t do 4k at all, or on anything I record, then there’s no point.