Newbie Questions

[Toonces]

Morning all (where applicable),

Just getting started with the software and I have a few questions.

Currently, I'm having difficulty with Live TV. When I select a channel, I get the circle indefinitely. Now, I'm going to guess it's probably my server setup but perhaps not. I currently host the server on an Ubuntu Desktop client, with 2 CPUs and 16GB of memory. This is a VM on my Dell server, which is an old one. It has a single Xeon 3430 with 32GB of memory.  Currently, it has a Windows 10 guest, a Windows Server guest, and a Ubuntu server guest. All of which are, basically, idle. My Win10 doesn't much care for the host either. The server seems content. Should I be using more modern hardware?  VOD works fine, it's a bit slow to begin but it will play without much hassle.

When I do populate the LIve TV guide, I get the channel number and the logo, but no channel text. I do get the channel text on hover, but it's not displaying that.  It this normal behavior, or am I missing something?

I'd have used the Ubuntu server to run the Jellyfin, and it's installed there.  Linux isn't my area, and I was having issues with the VPN. I assume that this being a client/server setup, having a VPN on the server doesn't require me to have it on the client? The server handles all external traffic and not just passing the URL on to the client.

Thanks.

[TheDreadPirate]

Can you share your logs with us? I suspect it is trying to transcode and you don't have a GPU and not enough CPU cores. In the Users Dashboard, is the box to force live TV transcoding checked?

[Toonces]

I removed the mu3&xml, cleared out the cached channels, and then put them back in again. Live TV now playing. It's slow in starting, takes about 7 seconds to begin to play from clicking play. It's probably not that long, flash-frying a buffalo takes longer. Also slow in loading the guide, VOD list, etc, or maybe it's me being impatient.