KODI LIVE TV Freezes

[jmooremcc]

While watching live TV using Kodi (LE 8.3.5, Kodi 17.6) using a Raspberry Pi 2, the video stream will freeze intermittently or at times when I change channels.

I performed channel changes as follows:
2:00 pm - WSVN
3:00 pm - CometTV
4:00 pm - WFOR
6:30 pm - NBC6
7:00 pm - WBFS (myTV)
The picture froze when changing the channel at 6:30pm

I'm including the logs from the nextPVR backend, the Kodi log from the Raspberry Pi2 and a couple of screenshots.
The 1st screenshot is the backend nextPVR status window.You'll notice that Comet TV appears to still be active but was shutdown at 4:00 pm. The 2nd screenshot shows the video tmp file directory. There you can see that Comet TV is still active although no Kodi box is watching it.

Once the screen freezes, I have to reboot the RPi to recover.
One other odd thing happens with the NextPVR addon. When I reboot the RPi, the addon does not connect to the backend although a valid IP address exists. I have to update the addon to get it to connect to the backend server.

I would appreciate any help you can offer that will help me track down the source of this freezing problem.

Thank you.

[mvallevand]

There is a bug in timeshifting in NextPVR I seem the symptom in web.log with this

2018-08-23 18:18:21.526 [DEBUG][17] Renewed lease(2)... (140009)

but you don't have the web.log when it started to match this error in the the tuner 20 log

Code:

2018-08-23 15:11:26.380    [INFO][38]    DigitalRecorder.StartStream() allocated handle: 0x9
2018-08-23 15:11:26.380    [DEBUG][38]    Temp at 8/23/2018 3:11:36 PM
2018-08-23 15:59:55.401    [ERROR][48]    Unable to SwitchStream. Reason:

I think NRecord messes up when this happens. Since Timeshift has changed for v18 I am not sure if sub is going to look into this bug further, tehcnically Kodi devs have told him the v17 timehift should not work (although you seem to have pretty good success)

Martin