IPTV channels not loading

[Tunes0710]

Hiya.
Today I am encountering an issue with the IPTV channels, in that they aren't playing through Kodi.
They play fine through NextPVR and if I take the URL in the Kodi log where it is timing out and put it in VLC, it will play.
I removed and re-installed the NextPVR plugin. I've not *knowingly* changed anything that may affect this. I did try the advancedsettings.xml as suggested in another thread, but that didn't work, so I removed the file (it didn't exist in the first place).

As the Kodi debug log is quite big, if you search for "http://127.0.0.1:22089/live?channeloid=237452&client=XBMC-cb0eb34e7ac343d2a288e392848e3976", that is one of the channels I tried playing
Have also included NPVR logs incase there is anything that end.

Although I can't see what I could have possibly done, I am putting this down to it somehow being a PEBCAK issue.

It almost seems like the issue I had with the Terrestrial channels, which Martin solved, but this time with IPTV!

Cheers :-)

[mvallevand]

I want Kodi posts in the Kodi sub section, v5 is no longer beta and it will make it easier to find related issues. They are being scattered all over right now.

NextPVR is certainly taking a long to tim to begin streaming

2020-05-28 17:43:49.692 [DEBUG][20] IPTV StartStream@3.2
2020-05-28 17:43:55.298 [DEBUG][20] IPTV StartStream@3.3

However it is not clear why Kodi is not connecting there should be a 10 second timeout on the open.

2020-05-28 17:43:50.305 T:4844 ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Timeout was reached(28)
2020-05-28 17:43:50.305 T:4844 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 0 for http://127.0.0.1:22089/live?channeloid=2...92848e3976:

Is this new in 18.7? If not my gut says this is because you have a set a rather unusual advancedsetttings.xml value that actually makes no sense.

<curllowspeedtime>1</curllowspeedtime>

NextPVR is also transcoding some stations and that is going to be problem on both time but we alos know your server isn't able to keep up.

Note you are adding to overall problems because you are tuning a second channel before NextPVR exits the previous one

Martin

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Moved thread...

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2020-05-28 17:43:49.692 [DEBUG][20] IPTV StartStream@3.2
2020-05-28 17:43:55.298 [DEBUG][20] IPTV StartStream@3.3

Between those two points, it just opens the url to check the mime type, to see if it's a stream it can handle directly itself. There is a 5000ms timeout, so I'm guessing it couldn't connect to check the mime type, so fell back to letting ffmpeg transcode the stream.

[Tunes0710]

Apologies for posting in the wrong section.
What I don't understand is that I haven't made any changes.

I've not got any advancedsettings.xml currently. I did have one set (as suggested in the other thread), but as it didn't make any difference, I deleted it.
It is using the latest 18.7, but I had been using it for a few days without this issue.

I've finally got the new NAS set up (went with unraid in the end), so will be moving NPVR over to a docker on that unit.

Is it worth me trying to roll back to 18.6?

[mvallevand]

Your log indicates you do.

Code:

2020-05-28 17:41:11.862 T:1460  NOTICE: Loaded settings file from special://profile/advancedsettings.xml
2020-05-28 17:41:11.862 T:1460  NOTICE: Contents of special://profile/advancedsettings.xml are...
                                            <advancedsettings>
                                              <network>
                                                <autodetectpingtime>30</autodetectpingtime>
                                                <!-- Time (in seconds) between pings for detecting new xboxes. Default 30, minimum 1, maximum 240 -->
                                                <curlclienttimeout>5</curlclienttimeout>
                                                <!-- Timeout (in seconds) for player and other connections. Default 10, minimum 1, maximum 1000 -->
                                                <curllowspeedtime>1</curllowspeedtime>
                                                <!-- Time (in seconds) the http client should wait before judging a connection as low. Default 20, minimum 1, maximum 1000 -->
                                                <curlretries>2</curlretries>
                                                <!-- Number of times the http client retries. Default 2, minimum 0, maximum 10 -->
                                                <disableipv6>true</disableipv6>
                                                <!-- Disables ipv6. Default false -->
                                                <cachemembuffersize>0</cachemembuffersize>
                                                <!-- Size of the player cache in bytes. Default 20M (20*1024*1024), if 0 it uses a SimpleFileCache. -->
                                              </network>

Martin

[Tunes0710]

Well that has solved that then!

I never set any of those settings (only those suggested in the other thread).
I did test a plugin last night, but removed it.. so it must have been that which created those advancedsettings.xml

Deleted it and presto, channels are loading like normal.

I really need to spend some time learning how to read and understand the log file, so I don't keep embarrassing myself like this on a public forum 

Thank you again for your help!

[mvallevand]

When the other user posted his advancedsetting I almost posted that it is a bad idea to even post this information since it rarely is the solution and it causes more trouble for me.

It also confirms why kodi logs are so crucial as a timesaver.

Martin