The platform that the Plex Media Server is on is a Windows 7 64bit machine:
Here is the Transcoder setup created by Plex Media Server for a Live RTMP stream from Fox 4 Dallas News:
PlexTranscoder.exe transcode "rtmp://cp156346.live.edgefcs.net:1935/live?ovpfv=2.1.6 playpath=KDFW_744_Flash@27996 live=1 app=live?ovpfv=2.1.6 conn=B:0 conn=S:KDFW_744_Flash@27996 subscribe=KDFW_744_Flash@27996 pageUrl=http://www.myfoxdfw.com/category/234333/live swfVfy=0 swfUrl=http://content.foxtvmedia.com/kdfw/live/AkamaiFlashPlayer.swf" "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\plex-transcode-a612w084x0fk-44a59675-cd81-46d2-8334-0c00a1b67d1c\media" 7 4 0 any nil 0 yes UTF-8 default "" "" 0.75 av high 1080 51 mp3,aac=160000 3355443 yes "" no "http://127.0.0.1:32400/video/:/transcode/session/a612w084x0fk/progress"
The transcoder does output the MPEG-TS files to the temp folder but they are 0mb. This causes the player to to just sit there trying load for a while and then errors with the message: Cannot load M3U8:
Here is the Encode debug info:
Audio stream info:
codec_id : 15002
channels : 2
bitrate : 0/128000
samplerate: 48000
audiogain : 1.00 (256)
aacProfile: 1/-99
----> we're not remuxing RTMP audio for now.
!!! Will NOT copy the audio stream
Video stream info:
codec_id: 1c/1c
level : 31/51
avg_fps : 29/29
profile : 42/64
vfr : 0
fps : 29.00/29.00
bitrate : 0.00/3.15 mbps
height : 360/360
aspect : 0.56(1.00)/0.56
segSize : 0.00mbits/seg, 0.00/25.60MBps
timebase: 0.01724(931067:54000000)/0.00001(0:1000000)
As you can see Audo Stream Bitrate is 0/128000 and Video stream segSize is 0mb/seg. So the Plex Transcoder not setting up the Encoder output correctly for the live RTMP stream.
What are the parameters for the "PlexTranscoder.exe transcode". I have looked high and low for them. To me it looks like the transcode parameter is a clean design pointing to all the FFMPEG parameters in the Plex transcoder.
Next, are there any plans of adding RTMP 302 URL redirect detection in the transcoder? If not, I have been toying with Twisted and RTMPy Python scripts. I have added all the Twisted and RTMPy dependancies to the Plex Media Servers Python26.zip file. I have been trying to write a Python Script using Twisted and RTMPy to detect the redirect and pass it to "MediaObject(parts = [PartObject(key=RTMPVideoURL(url=". I have not found any good info on using RTMPy detecting 302 URL redirect. All the example code people show is detecting if a local RMTP server is running. Just wondering if anybody knows anyting about RTMPy Python script coding and point me in the right direction?
If anybody lives in the Dallas, TX area I have attached a verions of the plugin I am working on. It also pulls in their News, Weather, GoodDay segments. Let me know if you would like for me to tweak or add anything to it.
Again thanks for all the great work!
