Stuttering playback of Live TV on Android TV
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2015-11-20, 03:57 PM
I have a Shield Android TV running the latest version of Kodi and X-Newa. Recordings play back perfectly but whenever I try to watch Live TV I get stutter every few seconds. This is OTA ATSC from an HDHomerun. Any ideas what might be causing this? I do have path substitution set up for both recordings and live tv but as I recall, path substitution is not used for live tv.
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2015-11-20, 11:37 PM
cncb Wrote:I have a Shield Android TV running the latest version of Kodi and X-Newa. Recordings play back perfectly but whenever I try to watch Live TV I get stutter every few seconds. This is OTA ATSC from an HDHomerun. Any ideas what might be causing this? I do have path substitution set up for both recordings and live tv but as I recall, path substitution is not used for live tv. Do you remember when I told you how to disable the web client live tv OSD over live tv? It could be that. Maybe try native x-newa live tv to compare. If that doesn't do what, does typing the O (letter) key show some buffering or high CPU issues, maybe even errors. Martin
2015-11-21, 02:21 PM
mvallevand Wrote:Do you remember when I told you how to disable the web client live tv OSD over live tv? It could be that. Maybe try native x-newa live tv to compare. If that doesn't do what, does typing the O (letter) key show some buffering or high CPU issues, maybe even errors. Yes, I was specifically testing the native x-newa live tv because of this. I will try to get some data with the 'o' menu. Thanks.
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2015-11-21, 07:22 PM
So, I watched some Live TV with the 'o' display up and other than some "drops" no problems were really obvious to me. All 4 CPUs stayed under 30%. Is there something other than the obvious "buffering" message that would tell me if buffering is a problem? Something else I should look for?
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2015-11-21, 09:38 PM
cncb Wrote:So, I watched some Live TV with the 'o' display up and other than some "drops" no problems were really obvious to me. All 4 CPUs stayed under 30%. Is there something other than the obvious "buffering" message that would tell me if buffering is a problem? Something else I should look for? Does it still stutter after pausing for a few seconds? If so maybe check advancedsettings.xml to make sure http caching is enabled. Martin
2015-11-22, 06:45 PM
Pausing does seem to improve things. I don't have anything pertaining to http caching in my advancedsettings so I think this means it is enabled be default. Does this suggest that maybe increasing the cachemembuffersize might help?
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2015-11-22, 10:22 PM
cncb Wrote:Pausing does seem to improve things. I don't have anything pertaining to http caching in my advancedsettings so I think this means it is enabled be default. Does this suggest that maybe increasing the cachemembuffersize might help? I'd be inclined to start with <readbufferfactor>2.0</readbufferfactor> or higher to see if it can pull faster and then increase the cache size. I was hoping that for the next release sub would have given some extra api calls to help playing from a share but it looks like he is focusing a bit more on Jarvis and Emby clients for the next release. Martin
2015-11-23, 10:36 PM
Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, neither of these settings seem to have any effect on this issue for me. When I start playback of a live stream, it stutters a lot and sometimes doesn't even have any audio at all. If I pause it for several seconds and resume playback it seems mostly good but there are eventually some random stutters again.
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2015-11-23, 10:40 PM
Ok, if you start live tv on another client can you play the file from a share okay? If so, does the O data look any different?
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