I am not an expert, I just know that each PLUTO TV channel sends multiple hls (HTTP Live Streaming) media streams with different qualities and resolutions; these streams are interrupted to play ads, this affects the broadcast timestamps which drive normal players crazy including Kodi plugins and addons. Solving this to add them to tvheadend as normal TV channels has been a major challenge for me, I think I finally got it with this script:
#!/bin/sh
# tvhdecode.sh script
########################
#
# /storage/.config/tvhdecode.sh (for docker linuxserver/tvheadend containers)
#
# universal-script for play anything
#
# usage in tvheadend: pipe:///storage/.config/tvhdecode.sh [URL]
#
# Warnings:
# - due to LE limitations is necessary to build a mini universe inside linuxserver/tvheadend container
# - streamlink, ffmpeg and cvlc are installed and updated on container
# - LE's storage directory is also mounted inside the container (-v /storage:/storage command)
# - config directory of the container has the streamlink and cvlc configuration files
# - decoding: first try only streamlink, after try streamlink+cvlc and finally try streamlink+ffmpeg+cvlc
#
########################
streamlink --config /config/streamlink.conf $1 | \
ffmpeg -hwaccel drm -i pipe: -c copy -f mpegts pipe: | \
cvlc --config /config/cvlc.conf fd://0
exit
<<external-settings
########################
#
# /config/streamlink.conf on linuxserver/tvheadend container
#
########################
stdout
quiet
default-stream=1080p,720p,3100k,2100k,best
ffmpeg-ffmpeg=/usr/bin/ffmpeg
ffmpeg-video-transcode=copy
ffmpeg-audio-transcode=copy
ffmpeg-fout=mpegts
http-no-ssl-verify
player-no-close
player-continuous-http
http-header=user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (SMART-TV; LINUX; Tizen 6.0)\r\n
http-header=user-agent=Chrome/79.0.3945.79 Safari/537.36 SmartTV/10.0 Colt/2.0\r\n
http-header=user-agent=Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.56.500000\r\n
http-header=seekable=0\r\n
http-header=referer=\ \r\n
########################
#
# /config/cvlc.conf on linuxserver/tvheadend container
#
########################
file-caching=1000
live-caching=1000
disc-caching=1000
network-caching=1000
avcodec-hw=vaapi_drm
avcodec-skiploopfilter=4
stereo-mode=1
no-playlist-cork
quiet
repeat
sout-transcode-vcodec=copy
sout-transcode-acodec=copy
sout-standard-access=file
sout-standard-mux=ts
sout=#standard{dst=-}
#no-video
#no-audio
#http-continuous
#http-reconnect
#http-user-agent=Mozilla/5.0\ (Windows\ NT\ 10.0;\ Win64;\ x64)\ AppleWebKit/537.36\ (KHTML,\ like\ Gecko)\r\n
#http-user-agent=Chrome/98.0.4758.102\r\n
http-user-agent=Safari/537.36\r\n
http-referrer=\ \r\n
########################
#
# /storage/.config/pipedtvh.sh
#
# automatic piped playlist generator for docker linuxserver/tvheadend
#
# usage: pipedtvh.sh playlist.m3u -> created file: playlist.m3u.tvh.m3u
#
########################
#!/bin/sh
# pipedtvh.sh script for pipe playlist to tvheadend
if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
echo "PLAYLIST ERROR!"
else
sed '/#EXTM3U/s/http/TEMP/' $1 > $1.tvh.m3u
sed -i '/#EXTINF/!s/http/pipe:\/\/\/config\/tvhdecode.sh http/' $1.tvh.m3u
sed -i '/#EXTM3U/s/TEMP/http/' $1.tvh.m3u
fi
external-settingsI guess any programmer will understand my solution, the origin of the problem, and maybe he will be able to give a better solution for HLS streams with ads.
Yes AFAIK using streamlink is the best way to stream many streams from plutotv because of the ad break discontinuity. That is how I do it with the NextPVR backend but I haven't tried anything on arm32 so I can speak to the rpi3
How would that apply to a RPI 4(64bit) or Orange PI(32bit).
Where do i put the script?
thx.
Steen
I am not an expert, I just know that each PLUTO TV channel sends multiple hls (HTTP Live Streaming) media streams with different qualities and resolutions; these streams are interrupted to play ads, this affects the broadcast timestamps which drive normal players crazy including Kodi plugins and addons. Solving this to add them to tvheadend as normal TV channels has been a major challenge for me, I think I finally got it with this script:
Bash#!/bin/sh # tvhdecode.sh script ######################## # # /storage/.config/tvhdecode.sh (for docker linuxserver/tvheadend containers) # # universal-script for play anything # # usage in tvheadend: pipe:///storage/.config/tvhdecode.sh {PLUTO,SAMSUNG,RAKUTEN,IPTV} [URL] # or pipe:///storage/.config/tvhdecode.sh [URL] # # Warnings: # - due to LE limitations is necessary to build a mini universe inside linuxserver/tvheadend container # - streamlink, ffmpeg and cvlc are installed and updated on container # - LE's storage directory is also mounted inside the container (-v /storage:/storage command) # - config directory of the container has the streamlink and cvlc configuration files # - decoding: first try only streamlink, after try streamlink+cvlc and finally try streamlink+ffmpeg+cvlc # ######################## streamlink --config /config/streamlink.conf $1 | \ ffmpeg -i pipe: -c copy -f mpegts pipe: | \ cvlc --config /config/cvlc.conf fd://0 exit ######################## # # streamlink.conf # ######################## # stdout # quiet # default-stream=1080p,720p,3100k,2100k,best # player-no-close # ffmpeg-ffmpeg=/usr/bin/ffmpeg # ffmpeg-video-transcode=copy # ffmpeg-audio-transcode=copy # ffmpeg-fout=mpegts # http-no-ssl-verify ######################## # # cvlc.conf # ######################## # network-caching=2000 # no-playlist-cork # quiet # repeat # sout-transcode-vcodec=copy # sout-transcode-acodec=copy # sout-standard-access=file # sout-standard-mux=ts # sout=#standard{dst=-} # no-video # no-audio ######################## # # pipedtvh.sh # # automatic piped playlist generator for docker linuxserver/tvheadend # # usage: pipedtvh.sh {PLUTO,SAMSUNG,RAKUTEN,IPTV} playlist.m3u -> created file: playlist.m3u.tvh.m3u # ######################## #!/bin/sh # pipedtvh.sh script for pipe playlist to tvheadend # if [[ -z $1 ]]; then # echo "PLAYLIST ERROR!" # else # sed '/#EXTM3U/s/http/TEMP/' $1 > $1.tvh.m3u # sed -i '/#EXTINF/!s/http/pipe:\/\/\/storage\/.config\/tvhdecode.sh http/' $1.tvh.m3u # sed -i '/#EXTM3U/s/TEMP/http/' $1.tvh.m3u # fiI guess any programmer will understand my solution, the origin of the problem, and maybe he will be able to give a better solution for HLS streams with ads.
