Buffering of HD channels in XBMC only

[Johnny_Swindle]

I am having the same issue with HD channels.....would be nice have something solid to try and resolve this problem.

[Johnny_Swindle]

I believe I have solved my problem........I went into settings, video, Render Method, and set it to DVXA-HD, the I went to add ons, enabled add ons and then went to PVR and selected NextPVR and went to advanced and set to to enabled time shift with live tv...........

That solve my problems...........YMMV

Johnny

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Great.

[DaveNinja]

I'll try the changes Johnny mentioned and see if they fix my problem.

I did find it interesting that running the HD channels through SPMC on my amazon fire tv worked fine, no buffering

[SeishiZero]

I believe I have solved my problem........I went into settings, video, Render Method, and set it to DVXA-HD, the I went to add ons, enabled add ons and then went to PVR and selected NextPVR and went to advanced and set to to enabled time shift with live tv...........

That solve my problems...........YMMV

Johnny

Thank you thank you! I have been bashing my head for a couple of hours trying to resolve the buffer problem. The new settings instantly fixed the problem for me.

The exact path for me (Kodi 15.0) is Setting>Video (setting level: Advanced)>Acceleration>Render Method: change from "Auto detect" to "DXVA-HD".

Cheers!

[Redwingsfansfc]

Enable time shift, or if enabled - disable, try, and you can re enable. That popped up on me immediately after loading Kodi v15. Tried everything, and time shift was the last option. Toggled, disabled, played, and toggled back, all was well. Maybe I was just lucky.

[SLiMiam]

I've been having the same problem. I had high hopes for this fix, Disabling Time Shift solved the problem with "NextPVR PVR Client no longer available". However, I still get the buffering and choppy video even after changing the Render Method as described above. I've toggled, disabled, re-enabled and rebooted with no luck. Does anyone have another suggestion. Thanks. Everything works just fine within NextPVR standalone and HD HomeRun View.

Kodi 15.0
NextPVR 3.4.8
HD HomeRun Dual HDHR3-US
Windows 7

[browned]

Does your video hardware/driver support DXVA-HD? If you are using Windows 10 there has been talk of AMD video drivers not having hardware acceleration enabled. Hopefully AMD will release a fix soon.

[SLiMiam]

Thanks @browned. It appears that DXVA-HD is not supported by my GPU after running DXVA Checker. I'll look to see if there is an updated driver from AMD. If not, I'll have to look for another video decoder. I'm stuck for now.

[SLiMiam]

I am curious however, why the video displays just fine in NextPVR and HD Homerun View. It is only KODI that has the problem. Any ideas?