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Delete from DVR - enesha - 2025-03-24
Afternoon
So I am adding hdhomerun to my setup. Working on details, but it seems to be working.
I can watch recording even, but I am not sure how to delete an episode from the UI. I am using webui and roku ATM, an dI can watch, download and everything else, but no delete..
is there a way to do that other than the filesystem itself?
Cheers!
*edit* So I was wrong...I can't watch the recordings. When I try it fails with:
"Playback failed due to a fatal player error."
As best as I can see in the logs, it tries to start sending the video, transcoding theoretically starts, but then it fails with:
"FFmpeg exited with code 218"
Thoughts?
RE: Delete from DVR - TheDreadPirate - 2025-03-24
Can you share your ffmpeg logs?
Also, regarding deleting recordings, as long as you have sufficient you click on the "..." context menu for the episode and "Delete episode".
I don't remember off the top of my head of we enabled media management from Roku devices.
RE: Delete from DVR - enesha - 2025-03-25
(2025-03-24, 09:03 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Can you share your ffmpeg logs?
Also, regarding deleting recordings, as long as you have sufficient you click on the "..." context menu for the episode and "Delete episode".
I don't remember off the top of my head of we enabled media management from Roku devices.
Hiya - Thanks for the reply
So I just tried playing a recording on the web ui, and it failed again. It seemed to generate 3 separate ffmpeg log files. Weird. Those log files are attached.Additionally - re: the deleting of episodes, I added a few screenshots showing that I do not appear to have that option, and threw one in showing the only live tv settings I noticed in user management.
Ok so that being neither here nor there, I just tried using my phone to stream that episode while I was writing this. My android phone with (i assume) the latest client started playing the show immediately, so I guess that means it's a me thing. I tried both Chromium and Firefox and received the same response. Also use two different profiles. It's a puzzler.
RE: Delete from DVR - TheDreadPirate - 2025-03-25
Scroll down a bit more in the User dashboard. Is media deletion not enabled for that library?
Regarding playing the recordings/live TV. It looks like there's a lot of irregularities with the file that are exposed when transcoding. It is likely that your phone is direct playing the file.
You can try remuxing one of the recordings to see if repairing the container helps.
Code:
/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -fflags +genpts+igndts -i "/path/to/problem/video.ts" -map 0 -codec copy -max_muxing_queue_size 2048 -max_interleave_delta 0 -avoid_negative_ts disabled newFile.mp4RE: Delete from DVR - enesha - 2025-03-25
(2025-03-25, 12:34 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Scroll down a bit more in the User dashboard. Is media deletion not enabled for that library?
Regarding playing the recordings/live TV. It looks like there's a lot of irregularities with the file that are exposed when transcoding. It is likely that your phone is direct playing the file.
You can try remuxing one of the recordings to see if repairing the container helps.
Code:/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -fflags +genpts+igndts -i "/path/to/problem/video.ts" -map 0 -codec copy -max_muxing_queue_size 2048 -max_interleave_delta 0 -avoid_negative_ts disabled newFile.mp4
Hiya - I'll try the remux a but later, thanks for the suggesion. I wonder why the phone would direct play and the web would not. I would have assumed the web would have more codecs or whatnot. Eh whatever, I'll try
It says I have delete access to all libraries... Tho to be honest I've never really used that function. I'm sure it's handy, but when I did use it once, It deleted the file, but not all the associated schmutz, some of which JF made, some was from tmm or whatever, and of course the directory still existed. All makes sense, can't have the server just blindly deleting a bunch of stuff it didn't make. that could end up a nightmare lol. I can still manage from the filesystem just fine, just thought the option might exist in a parity with my average tivo/dvr. Understood this is far more magic and hope than that dedicated system so it's all good.
I did have some other random live-tv questions....
How does it handle multiple tuner scheduling? The one hdhgomerun there now is a dual tuner, but I was considering a hauppauge -> tvheadend -> antenna to JF or even another hdhomerun...Does it combine tuners from those different sources for scheduling?
How does it manage the series itself, or process a series for recording? For testing I added three series in this order: Married with Children - Mama's Family and Judge Judy. I initially added Mama as only new recordings. Obviously I would imagine nothing new since the 80's so I eventually changed it to all episodes, don't record what's already in the library. After making that change, none of the Mama in the future are scheduled to record. I can't seem to find a wya to manually choose an episode, as the screen has the record icon as grey and you can't click on it or the episode/.
Just trying to understand the ins and outs so I can adjust my habits to conform
RE: Delete from DVR - TheDreadPirate - 2025-03-25
AFAIK, most browser can't play MPEG2 nor can they play interlaced video. And your examples are both MPEG2 and interlaced.
I don't know about multiple tuners. I only have one M3U IPTV tuner.
As for recording a series, that depends on your TV Guide provider including some key information. Read this thread.
https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-live-tv-no-channels-displaying-under-shows
TLDR; the "episode-num" and "sub-title" fields are crucial for "record series" to work properly. For me, I had to add a check in the script I use to pull down my TV Guide to modify some fields. This is with the assumption that your TV guide data is XMLTV.
RE: Delete from DVR - enesha - 2025-03-26
Still
(2025-03-25, 08:47 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: AFAIK, most browser can't play MPEG2 nor can they play interlaced video. And your examples are both MPEG2 and interlaced.
I don't know about multiple tuners. I only have one M3U IPTV tuner.
As for recording a series, that depends on your TV Guide provider including some key information. Read this thread.
https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-live-tv-no-channels-displaying-under-shows
TLDR; the "episode-num" and "sub-title" fields are crucial for "record series" to work properly. For me, I had to add a check in the script I use to pull down my TV Guide to modify some fields. This is with the assumption that your TV guide data is XMLTV.
Still haven't tried the tc for that file. Actually I just deleted everything, reset the antenna, and started over again. I'll try to wait for a nice complete episode and try again. I also have hardware TC enabled in tv setup and to I think force tc for remote content enabled for the user, so we'll see.
I am rather surprised that the browsers wouldn't support that, seeing as the codecs involved are super old lol. Ah well.
I do there is an option to apply post record processing to a stream..If that keeps being a problem, would doing something there be the ticket maybe?
Interesting about the required fields, I'll have to experiment. I assume since you were able to accurately deduce it was xmltv, you'd be right about the problem. I actually don't even have much experience with xmltv. In the (distant) past with old xbmc and kodi setups, have used SD, but I had read around here about the issues regarding the json from them when I was starting to set things up, so I went for door number 2
RE: Delete from DVR - TheDreadPirate - 2025-03-26
Post processing is something you could do. Though I would experiment with post processing outside of Jellyfin before trying within the DVR post-processing functionality.
Regarding XMLTV stuff. Here is the script I use to pull down my IPTV's TV guide. The source is in JSON, this person's script converts it to XMLTV. They even back ported my modification regarding the "sub-title" field (not to be confused with subtitles).
https://github.com/Squizzy/NHK-World-XML-to-XMLTV
Perhaps you can use it as a starting point for your TV guide setup.