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Playing While recording - miniDLNA

Hi all,

Im trying to use Tvheadend so i can start playing back a show while it is recording. At the moments im all setup on my rpi with dvb-t2 hat. I am running a miniDLNA server on there aswell however the server does not appear to pickup the TS file until recording is complete.

I have a samsung smart tv that runs tizen and i was using minidlna as ideally i would like to not have to rely on another device. I do though have a a firestick should i not be able to do this without relying on something else.

Any ideas for setting this up with or without the firestick, from the forum members ?

Thanks. Alex

Replies (9)

RE: Playing While recording - miniDLNA - Added by saen acro almost 4 years ago

Q1. Why watch record not a live stream
Q2. there is a playlist for recording's why use dlna for that?

Have you try to use xupnpd and ssiptv?

RE: Playing While recording - miniDLNA - Added by Alex & Cats almost 4 years ago

Hello

Thanks for the message

Q1. Program runs 7pm-8pm, often i want to start watching the program at say 7.30 when i get in from work. So i need to start watching ( from the beginning ) before the recording is complete ?
Q2. Im not sure i follow this one. The recording is running on the RPI which is headless does this help

I looked at xupnpd is this better than miniDLNA when it comes to indexing content thats still being written ?

Thanks. Alex

RE: Playing While recording - miniDLNA - Added by saen acro almost 4 years ago

Until file is written its a "virtual file"
not possible to be read simultaneously.
There is other solutions for that, with depend web service not a local file, or HLS type recording.

RE: Playing While recording - miniDLNA - Added by Ron L almost 4 years ago

I would agree that streaming via IPTV would be a better route than DLNA. TVHeadend will stream the recording while it is still recording. Generate a m3u playlist with the url http://<tvh server ip>:9981/playlist/recordings then feed that into your TV IPTV app.

Problem with Smart TVs in they are usually not very smart and entering a streaming playlist into their software can be quite annoying.

A media player box with Kodi installed and hts pvr backend will make this very simple.

RE: Playing While recording - miniDLNA - Added by saen acro almost 4 years ago

Actually SmartTV's have problem with TS over HTTP for live streaming.
Demuxing on non Android TV is limited.

RE: Playing While recording - miniDLNA - Added by Alex & Cats almost 4 years ago

Thanks new to most of this will try the IPTV route if that fails will try kodi!

Cheers for the advice

RE: Playing While recording - miniDLNA - Added by saen acro almost 4 years ago

If someone implement this to TVH will be great
https://github.com/streamingriver/video-stream-recorder
https://github.com/streamingriver/ts-server
This will solve all your problems with exact time to play.

RE: Playing While recording - miniDLNA - Added by Alex & Cats almost 4 years ago

Where would i find instructions for a total noob to install https://github.com/streamingriver/video-stream-recorder

on an RPi3. I see there is an ARM download but past that im a bit lost.

Alex

RE: Playing While recording - miniDLNA - Added by saen acro over 2 years ago

Alex & Cats wrote:

Where would i find instructions for a total noob to install https://github.com/streamingriver/video-stream-recorder

on an RPi3. I see there is an ARM download but past that im a bit lost.

Alex

build.sh

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