Erratic and unusable live stream playback
On an LG 47LW5600 TV with 04.02.62 and 04.03.01 firmware, playback of most rtmp live video streams is erratic.
Looking through the rtmpgui to Serviio converter, I found a bunch of streams which can be reliably played using ffplay or saved to MKV using Serviio's copy of ffmpeg (which doesn't support SDL output).
Usually the TV says the stream is invalid, but sometimes it says the source (Serviio) disconnected and quits SmartShare. Once in a while, I got streams to play, but that's so rare and the continual failures are so frustrating that it's useless. I just found two streams which reliably work on the TV. NHK World HD:
BTW A few hints: If you want to play a stream using ffplay, use something like this:
Looking through the rtmpgui to Serviio converter, I found a bunch of streams which can be reliably played using ffplay or saved to MKV using Serviio's copy of ffmpeg (which doesn't support SDL output).
Usually the TV says the stream is invalid, but sometimes it says the source (Serviio) disconnected and quits SmartShare. Once in a while, I got streams to play, but that's so rare and the continual failures are so frustrating that it's useless. I just found two streams which reliably work on the TV. NHK World HD:
and History Channel HD: That's from the HD_Channels RSS feed. I'm in Canada, so I didn't get a chance to test most streams because they're not accessible from here. However, I'm able to reliably access much more than 2 streams from my computer.
BTW A few hints: If you want to play a stream using ffplay, use something like this:
If you want to write it to a file, which is all you can do using Serviio's copy of ffmpeg, use something like this:You require the whole text copied when you click the O button at the right of the rtmpgui to Serviio converter web page, and not just the short rtmp:// string. Two spaces in a row is not acceptable. Some strings contain that, and it needs to be changed to one space. Video corruption is normal at start of playback, because data from before you tuned in to the broadcast is required. That should go away eventually. Ffplay shows washed out video, and the only way around that seems to be to pipe the video to something else like mplayer.