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Originally Posted by luca

In scanner.rb I appended TS to the request url so streamdev returns the TS urls for the channels, but I still see nothing.


The data fetching worked, but it gave an error adding the info to the channels (that's why I removed it).
Anyway, it would work only if you have epg for a channel, if there's no epg (channel not tuned after the last current/next epg) you cannot tune to the channel since you'd get no listing for it.

Originally Posted by ukki

Orb and TVersity are the only ones that come to mind.

Originally Posted by ukki

if you mean it errors when there's no epg info for that channel, you can fix it by changing it like this:

gsub("@PROGRAM_INFO", epg_data[channel_name][3] ? epg_data[channel_name][3] : "")

Originally Posted by ukki

Can you view recordings etc ok? Is it just live-tv that doesn't show?

Originally Posted by ukki

Can you view the stream from other computer ok?

Originally Posted by ukki

And looking at Knots' log it seems the address is 2 times in a row for some reason.

Originally Posted by ukki

If you can send me the telnet output of LSTE and the html output of the streamdev server, I'll check if I can parse it properly. I have under 10 channels that work fine so I can't really help you otherwise.

Originally Posted by luca

I'll see if I can: in the meantime I tried a cvs version of streamdev that gives different options in the channel listing (the main improvement is that you can get channels group by group), however it crashes my vdr.
I'd go back to the previous version but I forgot to note the cvs revision

Originally Posted by stangri

What, you can't install Ruby & VLC on Windows and run Knots there?!

Originally Posted by ukki

Let's stick with stable version for now How would you like Knots to handle that many channels? How do you want them grouped? I don't think it's possible to just fetch data for certain channels so I would need to cache the results and use that and then give ability to do full scan again when data is too outdated.

Originally Posted by luca

First, as I said before, I don't think it's worth it, but since you're asking ....

One solution could be caching the channel list on the server and send them to the client in batches. With my setup it wouldn't work (the server died due to low memory while parsing the channels). Batching could be done by pages, say 10 channels per page, groups, which currently knots ignores, or both (left/right changes group, up/down changes page).

Another solution would be to adapt streamdev to return channels in batches (the cvs version gives them in groups, but that's still to much).

A third solution could be to patch vdr to return channels in batches with LSTC
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And finally one could write a plugin to return channels in batches, complete with epg.

I'm not motivated enough to try any of the above, considering that streamdev can already transcode the stream and for live view it doesn't make sense to seek, so I don't see the advantage in using knots. I think it makes sense for recordings, where you can seek, but it falls short since it doesn't allow you to select the language (for multiple languages recordings) and I don't think that vlc can embed the dvb subtitles.

Originally Posted by sachin007

I tried this with tversity, but it could not find the server. Is it not supposed to work on windows?
Well i can use canola or media streamer with tversity but the most important thing is seeking. Without that there really is not much use for streaming. So i was wondering if this could in any way work on windows and if no are you planning to support windows in the future.

Thanks