HDHomerun Prime profile?

[Toby425]

Newbie trying to figure out how to get this to work. Default for the Prime tuner is Generic ATSC. On Win 8.1 I can add the channels I'm interested in to a folder/playlist, and in Mezzmo I can see the channel just fine. Super so far! Then I go to my M-Series Vizio Smart TV and I can get to the folder with the channels listed as ".mpg" extensions. But when I click on any of them the TV does nothing...so I'm thinking that maybe some transcoding needs to be done to the stream from Prime? But that should have had the same effect on the computer too? I don't know what to even look for at this point as there doesn't seem to be a profile for the HDHomerun Prime unit.

Sorry for going on, but I would be most relieved to get a little help.

Thanks!

[Toby425]

Sorry - meant Generic NTSC device. I think....

[Peter]

Hi,
it sounds like there might be an issue with the device profile assigned to the Vizio Smart TV, please try going to 'Media Devices' and double-click the Vizio TV in the list then change the profile to 'Vizio Smart TV' to see if this allows you to stream the content to the TV. If you still have problems please enable diagnostic logging http://forum.conceiva.com/showthread...nostic-logging then after restarting your Mezzmo media server try streaming the content to the TV again then send the logs to support [at] conceiva [dot] com and we can investigate.

[Toby425]

Thanks for your reply Peter! I'll change the Vizio Profile and give it another few tries...probably be later on in the day before I can get to though...

Again, thanks -and here's hoping!

[Toby425]

Hmmm....Going to have to sleep on it - now I can't see the stream on my computer. Will do more checking or perhaps a clean install and start over with logging turned on. Later...must sleep now.

Again, thanks.

[Toby425]

Logs sent.

Other behavior cropped up when using Mezzmo as the player - it opens a web page for Quicktime. Still no video shows,though. Don't know how I got it yesturday without going through Chrome and Quicktime.Just a mystery....

Again, thanks for your time and trouble.

[RonB]

I am running the HDHorerun Connect Quatro and have Mezzmo connections setup for the live stream captures for certain channels I like to watch. My DLNA Mezzmo clients are all Kodi so I don't need to transcode the MPEG2 HD Homerun Connect outputs. The exception is Mezzmo web access where I am using a browser to access Mezzmo. For that transcoding of the HDHomerun streams works fine as long as I use the Flow based format and not VP8 (HTML5). Which HDHomerun device are you using and what client types accessing Mezzmo need transcoding ?

I'm using the HDHR4-2US unit. The client's are Roku premiere and Roku2.

[jbinkley60]

Ok. The HDHR4-2US is the slightly older 2 tuner version of what I have and outputs MPEG2. Roku doesn't support MPEG2 natively due to them not wanting to deal with the licensing but I saw this article recently where the Silicon Dust HDHomrerun folks are pushing them to support MPEG2 now since their are no longer licensing fees. Audio codec support on Roku devices is a real issue. I have a few Roku Ultras. I'll try to do some testing tomorrow and see if I can get it working.

[RonB]

Ok. The HDHR4-2US is the slightly older 2 tuner version of what I have and outputs MPEG2. Roku doesn't support MPEG2 natively due to them not wanting to deal with the licensing but I saw this article recently where the Silicon Dust HDHomrerun folks are pushing them to support MPEG2 now since their are no longer licensing fees. Audio codec support on Roku devices is a real issue. I have a few Roku Ultras. I'll try to do some testing tomorrow and see if I can get it working.

Thanks, much appreciated.

[jbinkley60]

I did some testing today and my results were mixed. The first question is what error or behavior are you seeing when Roku attempts to connect to the HDHomerun URL ? I am seeing Roku say retrieving and then if fails saying lost connection to the server. Mezzmo shows it transcoding into hls h264 format. I think there is something needed in the Roku Streaming profile relate to MPEG2 and proper transcoding that Roku understands. I was able to get the HDHomerun working via a kludge. I changed the Mezzmo profile for my Roku Ultra to Kodi (which has full MPEG2 support), disabled the Live stream option for one of the channels in Mezzmo and then did a force transcode into h264 format. That worked and the Roku device would play the stream. Peter and team will need to look at this. They may need a set of logs to help determine what is needed in the Roku profile.