Another catchup implementation

[solohpgh]

Hey euzu.

I've found a player that implements catchup in various ways. If you fancy adding it into build, I'd be happy to help you try (like we did with the last one).
(though not a problem if you can't, feel free to close the topic.)

The player is: Alice Player, on iOS (currently free and in beta) - apps.apple.com/us/app/alice-iptv-ott-stream-player/id1594670709

Logs when just trying to add the proxy to the client fail:
(This clients earlier builds has worked, before the implementation of catchup)

05/06/2024 08:58:24
[2024-06-05T07:58:24Z ERROR m3u_filter::repository::m3u_repository] Could not deserialize file /data/m3u_all_channels.db - File not found /data/m3u_all_channels.db or /data/m3u_all_channels.db_idx
05/06/2024 08:58:24
[2024-06-05T07:58:24Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] x.x.x.x "GET /get.php?username=xx&password=xx&type=m3u HTTP/1.1" 204 0 "-" "iptv-player/4 CFNetwork/1335.0.3.4 Darwin/21.6.0" 0.000074
05/06/2024 08:58:24
[2024-06-05T07:58:24Z ERROR m3u_filter::repository::m3u_repository] Could not deserialize file /data/m3u_all_channels.db - File not found /data/m3u_all_channels.db or /data/m3u_all_channels.db_idx
05/06/2024 08:58:24
[2024-06-05T07:58:24Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] x.x.x.x "GET /get.php?username=xx&password=xx&type=m3u HTTP/1.1" 204 0 "-" "iptv-player/4 CFNetwork/1335.0.3.4 Darwin/21.6.0" 0.000074

05/06/2024 09:07:34
[2024-06-05T08:07:34Z ERROR m3u_filter::repository::m3u_repository] Could not deserialize file /data/m3u_all_channels.db - File not found /data/m3u_all_channels.db or /data/m3u_all_channels.db_idx
05/06/2024 09:07:34
[2024-06-05T08:07:34Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] x.x.x.x "GET /get.php?username=xx&password=xx&type=m3u_plus HTTP/1.1" 204 0 "-" "iptv-player/4 CFNetwork/1335.0.3.4 Darwin/21.6.0" 0.000067
05/06/2024 09:10:06
[2024-06-05T08:10:06Z ERROR m3u_filter::repository::m3u_repository] Could not deserialize file /data/m3u_all_channels.db - File not found /data/m3u_all_channels.db or /data/m3u_all_channels.db_idx
05/06/2024 09:10:06
[2024-06-05T08:10:06Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] x.x.x.x "GET /get.php?username=xx&password=xx&output=ts&type=m3u_plus HTTP/1.1" 204 0 "-" "iptv-player/4 CFNetwork/1335.0.3.4 Darwin/21.6.0" 0.000076

[euzu]

@solohpgh sure no problem. The log output means you did not run an update. The update can be started in 3 ways:

• update_on_boot: true in config.yml (this runs an update each time m3u-filter starts.
• manual update in the WebUI
• scheduled update in server mode

The missing file indicates, the update for the target is not done, or there was an error and the update could not be run successfully.

[solohpgh]

Currently I run an update 3 times a day using the inbuilt cron scheduler.
schedule: "0 0 1,9,17 * * * *"

Those entries in the log, are only associated from Alice Player, when it is trying to initially connect to the m3u-filter.
(If I run UHF or Smarters Player Lite, they both connect fine.)

I'm going to step through an update and connection with Alice Player:

• Manual Update via WebUI

05/06/2024 13:24:03
[2024-06-05T12:24:03Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] x.x.x.x "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 521 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" 0.000196
05/06/2024 13:24:03
[2024-06-05T12:24:03Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] x.x.x.x "GET /static/js/main.58ceeef9.js HTTP/1.1" 200 333523 "http://x.x.x.x:8989/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" 0.001410
05/06/2024 13:24:03
[2024-06-05T12:24:03Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] x.x.x.x "GET /static/css/main.e6b91957.css HTTP/1.1" 200 32884 "http://x.x.x.x:8989/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" 0.000301
05/06/2024 13:24:03
[2024-06-05T12:24:03Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] x.x.x.x "POST /auth/token HTTP/1.1" 200 22 "http://x.x.x.x:8989/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" 0.000063
05/06/2024 13:24:03
[2024-06-05T12:24:03Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] x.x.x.x "GET /api/v1/file/download/info HTTP/1.1" 200 33 "http://x.x.x.x:8989/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" 0.000056
05/06/2024 13:24:03
[2024-06-05T12:24:03Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] x.x.x.x "GET /api/v1/config HTTP/1.1" 200 1528 "http://x.x.x.x:8989/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" 0.015749
05/06/2024 13:24:24
[2024-06-05T12:24:24Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] x.x.x.x "POST /api/v1/playlist/update HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "http://x.x.x.x:8989/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" 0.000052
05/06/2024 13:24:36
[2024-06-05T12:24:36Z INFO  m3u_filter::processing::playlist_processor] {"stats": {"name": http://my.provider.com, "type": xtream, "errors": 0, "raw": {"groups": 595, "channels": 120753}, "processed": {"groups": 246, "channels": 39815}}}

• Attempted connection via Alice Player:

05/06/2024 13:33:23
[2024-06-05T12:33:23Z ERROR m3u_filter::repository::m3u_repository] Could not deserialize file /data/m3u_all_channels.db - File not found /data/m3u_all_channels.db or /data/m3u_all_channels.db_idx
05/06/2024 13:33:23
[2024-06-05T12:33:23Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] x.x.x.x "GET /get.php?username=xx&password=xx&output=ts&type=m3u_plus HTTP/1.1" 204 0 "-" "iptv-player/4 CFNetwork/1335.0.3.4 Darwin/21.6.0" 0.000070
05/06/2024 13:33:23
[2024-06-05T12:33:23Z ERROR m3u_filter::repository::m3u_repository] Could not deserialize file /data/m3u_all_channels.db - File not found /data/m3u_all_channels.db or /data/m3u_all_channels.db_idx
05/06/2024 13:33:23
[2024-06-05T12:33:23Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] x.x.x.x "GET /get.php?username=xx&password=xx&output=ts&type=m3u_plus HTTP/1.1" 204 0 "-" "iptv-player/4 CFNetwork/1335.0.3.4 Darwin/21.6.0" 0.000066
05/06/2024 13:33:24
[2024-06-05T12:33:24Z ERROR m3u_filter::repository::m3u_repository] Could not deserialize file /data/m3u_all_channels.db - File not found /data/m3u_all_channels.db or /data/m3u_all_channels.db_idx
05/06/2024 13:33:24
[2024-06-05T12:33:24Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] x.x.x.x "GET /get.php?username=xx&password=xx&output=ts&type=m3u_plus HTTP/1.1" 204 0 "-" "iptv-player/4 CFNetwork/1335.0.3.4 Darwin/21.6.0" 0.000043

[euzu]

@solohpgh the player tries to fetch m3u playlist, how is your configuration ?
Do you have a target with m3u output ?

In api-config.yml is the target assigned to the user valid ?

[solohpgh]

I'm entering the xtreme code details, however as you point the player is then trying to grab via the m3u url.

Let me update the api-config.yml

I'll update shortly.

[solohpgh]

Ok my basic understanding addressed and config updated.

Now logged with Alice Player and will report back on catchup functionality.

[solohpgh]

I'm going to close this for now... I'm not having much luck getting Alice Player to initiate catchup stream... it keeps calling the live one.

I'll re-open if the players updates, iron out the bugs.