ffmpeg resource usage

[thecubasekid]

***Update***

so all is working great now! when i open a 1080p stream in Kodi, i see virtually no change in CPU use on my PC and all is smooth as butter

thanks for the advice and help.

i have an observation however, when my client on kodi loads the channels it 'appears' to fail, and on the PVR info i have in my skin, it shows '0' channels (recordings show correct recording count on the same screen). With TVheadend and simple iptv client, it would show my channel count. i see the below in Kodi log (with simple iptv the line would not be an error and would show the number of channels loaded.)

2020-04-22 15:00:56.644 T:3903898432 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://192.168.0.10:8866/public/LiveStre...dae01c1ee0:
2020-04-22 15:00:56.644 T:3903898432 ERROR: Open - failed to open source <http://192.168.0.10:8866/public/LiveStreams.xml?sid=464e583f52014ea1bb9cd8dae01c1ee0>

This appears to be purely cosmetic as when i open the guide in kodi, all my channels are there and work fine. Is this expected behavior, or is there something i need to set somewhere to get the channel count / avoid the error in kodi log?

[mvallevand]

Ignore that error that was some that was work in progress that got left in and is fixed in Matrix. Basically it is a feature that can optionally bypass NextPVR for live streams.

Otherwise I don't know what screen you are talking about but the addon should be returning the channel count. If you give me more info on how to find it I will fix it for Matrix.

Martin

[thecubasekid]

thanks for the response,

it is not really an issue for me, as all is working great now, just an observation, and i wondered if there was something i didn't set somewhere being new to the software.

the information is an option in my skin (Aeon Nox Silvo). i can configure items on the main menu to give statistics, so on my movie home menu entry it shows move stats (total amount of movies in DB, amount of watched movies) i have similar option set for TV shows, and for music it shows number of albums, songs and artists (i use shared remote SQL for all my kodi boxes, and the info for movies etc is an early indicator if there is some network problem and kodi couldn't get to SQL)

for the live TV menu item, when setting up my home menu in Nox Silvo i select the option to 'show PVR info' and this usually lists number of channels and number of recordings. With Next PVR i get 0 channels, but correct count of recordings. See below from Kodi log using simple iptv client showing the start up flow (note i removed a few unrelated lines in between PVR manager starting and started about my VPN and other things kodi is doing at start up) i get similar lines / flow also when using TVheadend, but i don't see anything showing how many channels are loaded in kodi log when PVR starts up using nextPVR.

2020-04-18 23:08:45.405 T:3987919744 NOTICE: AddOnLog: PVR IPTV Simple Client: LoadPlayList PlayList Loaded - 1458 (ms)
2020-04-18 23:08:45.406 T:3987919744 NOTICE: AddOnLog: PVR IPTV Simple Client: Loaded 1561 channels.
2020-04-18 23:08:45.406 T:3987919744 NOTICE: PVR Manager: Starting
2020-04-18 23:08:52.906 T:3396113280 NOTICE: PVR Manager: Started
2020-04-18 23:08:52.909 T:3895645056 NOTICE: EPG thread started
2020-04-18 23:09:23.024 T:3370935168 NOTICE: AddOnLog: PVR IPTV Simple Client: LoadEPG EPG Loaded - 29112 (ms)

When i first set up next PVR i didn think it had worked (if simple iptv client fails to load the playlist i get 0 channels and this would happen sometimes if my VPN connection happened too close to playlist load as it effected the network connection at that second) i spent some time trying to work out why nextPVR didn't work, copying the url to my browser on PC and also getting error, checking firewall and googling the error, lots of reboots, and only opened the guide in Kodi by mistake (fat fingers on the remote!) and to my happy surprise it was working! only the channel count info was not updating :-)



Thanks

[mvallevand]

Ok, I found it and it is just a skin design decision to show upcoming recording information before the stats.  iptvsimple doesn't have recordings so it will always be there.  If you love the counts more than the upcoming info you could edit the skin

Martin

[hansol123]

Hi

I am also suffering from 100% of CPU resources being used mainly by ffmpeg.exe when viewing live UK HD satellite and terrestrial channels using Firefox, Chrome and Edge on my Win 10 PC.

The Windows client works fine and it is set to use LAV.

Is it possible to set the browsers to use LAV rather than FFmeg ??

I have ticked the avoid transcoding box.

Thanks

Maurice

[mvallevand]

Browsers aren't real video players they need h264/aac source files which is why ffmpeg is required. There are improvements possible and I expect that sub one day will not retranscode h264 from tuners but until then you need a direct play client like NextPVR.exe or Kodi.

Martin

[hansol123]

Thanks Martin

I understand.

Regards

Maurice

[thecubasekid]

Ok, I found it and it is just a skin design decision to show upcoming recording information before the stats.  iptvsimple doesn't have recordings so it will always be there.  If you love the counts more than the upcoming info you could edit the skin

Martin

Thanks Martin. the screen shot is exactly what i was referring too, but on my system only 'recordings' has the correct value and notes how many i have. the channels part always says '0' channels, even though i have lots of channels loaded and working when entering the TV Guide in kodi;

[mvallevand]

Yes there is a bug I noticed that I introduced when I split radio and TV. This zero is a count of your radio stations. It will be fixed in Matrix.

Martin