Beech Horn

Yeah I’m still confused why you’re getting this re-encoding to MPEG2. Might be because the Docker image I’m using has transcode disabled? Glad it’s working for you at least.

Yeah you seem to be having all manner of troubles here. Am wondering if it's the stream from the IP camera which isn't compatible. HikVision and Avigilon are working trouble-free (unless I overload the streams, hence using multicast).

Just run it using WSL2, through docker, etc.

If you want to do it natively with FFmpeg then would look at miniDLNA for the announcement. Alternatively look for an IPTV app on LG (hopefully there is at least one) which should be able to take in something natively from FFmpeg. Please note I have not personally tried either solution (well I’ve used IPTV for non-CCTV RTSP streams). if you have an AppleTV, FireTV or Chromecast then you may have better luck with HLS. The AppleTV app isn’t sufficient has to be a physical one. This is a solution I’ve done before (well to AppleTV, but have heard it’s similar for FireTV/Chromecast) and lets you go full resolution h265, but needs an external device. feel your pain on this, took me a while to find Serviio and it’s been my go to ever since (I deal with HikVision, Synology, Ubiquiti and Avigilion), but if it’s causing you pain am hoping you’ll find a solution more suitable. Best of luck!

You normally enable multicast on the cameras. If they are on a separate VLAN you’ll want IGMP snooping.

No I did that deliberately to show you what overloading my cameras in unicast does as I use multicast. Was seeing if it was the same for you, demonstrating oversaturating the stream on the camera. Now I am back on multicast it’s glitch free. VLC reports h264 and bitrate is same for me (~4mbps in and out), no transcoding. Uses less than 1% CPU on my Synology NAS (DS720+) which runs Serviio in a Docker.

Also please note I've reported the thumbnail issue to the developer https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/issues/1176/online-service-thumbnail-using-http-auth

If the network is a pain, then use multicast on a nice switch, anything accessing the camera gets the same stream and it scales. On my cameras if I do it unicast with too many devices it looks like this:

I wish you luck and totally agree. Wish I could just add RTSP. BTW really nice setup is using HomeBridge and an Apple TV. You can get it to show picture in picture when there is movement and even have h265 4k instead of h264 1080p. Shame I don't want to use the Apple TV for accessing content and prefer to use the TV itself. But if this is for a client, that is a really nice solution. Hope it goes well at site. I'd personally always set a username/password. Use RTSP TCP for sanity of debugging (UDP for multicast) and test the URL through VLC first before adding to Serviio, then again VLC to debug before configuring on TV. Once the TV has played from Serviio, if you go into status you can turn off "Enable access for new devices" and configure it to use "LG TV / player" instead of "Generic DLNA profile", but it should still play without this.

If the raw RTSP stream works in VLC then only other thing might be transcoding is on in Serviio, disable it.

Alas dropping it to h264 might be necessary 😞 In VLC you can use the playlist feature (View->Playlist) to and select "Universal Plug'n'Play" on the left: This will let you test Serviio is working fine before playing with the TV.

Ah not everything is disabled in presentation. Video is show content only and online is show content only. Think of it like a folder structure where otherwise you’d need to go into the Video folder, then into the Online folder. Check that the RTSP stream you’ve specified is working in VLC. If there is a username/password then put it into the URL like: rtsp://USERNAME:PASSWORD@IP/blah/blah/blah/stream in VLC under the file menu there is an option to play a network stream. my 2019 C1 LG TV doesn’t like anything more than 1080p h264 over RTSP so had to configure the third stream to be this on the HikVision cameras I have (first stream is 4K h265+ and second stream is low quality).

The screenshot with the heading Presentation. Serviio can host a lot of content all on one, you’ll have a huge number of folders to navigate every time you want to look at your cameras unless you turn it all off. That screenshot shows how to configure it for easy access to the cameras. It works just fine.

TV shows it under sources automatically.

Just add the cameras as online sources, then make the presentation all about them for ease of navigation.

That should work fine.

I’ve ended up using Serviio in a Docker container running in the NVR which works well and through access control can allow you to limit it to just the TV’s IP address. If going down this path the only thing I wish is knew before is to remove all content listing apart from “online” and reduce nesting. Also currently with 2.2.1 and below of Serviio if you have a username/password for thumbnail access it won’t work (RTSP will though even with auth). I’ve raised a bug with the author.

Can confirm this is still a problem 2022-07-28.