IPTV channels freeze within a minute in Kodi

[sub]

Here is another one for you to try.

[pBS]

that fixed it for me[audio], was having same problem with the audio, but still have the freeze about 20 secs into iptv streams, can skip away from it usually..[at least in last version]
but now it comes back randomly.. 2.2.1 didn't reoccur after skipping out of a freeze..

i do notice that all my streams are very bursty as well, also .ts streams fed from a m3u playlist..what's controlling the request sizes? or are you saying that the servers are only giving out the streams in those bursts? [multiple bursts simultaneously cause glitches for me when recording 2 shows at once]

[sgilani]

Here is another one for you to try.

Still have the same issue, new logs attached.

[sub]

Still have the same issue, new logs attached.

These last few patches I've been posting have been trying to add all the audio decoders when you're in live tv. Strangely your logs are still only show a single decoder being added, and not sure why let. It sounds like it might have worked for PBS. I'll double check the logic for reasons why it might be happening. You've got your various audio decoders enabled in the Settings->Decoders screen right?

PBS, are you see multiple audio decoders being added in your npvr.log?

Here is sgilani's with only a single audio decoder:

2018-07-01 16:27:41.750 [DEBUG][1] Graph filter list:
2018-07-01 16:27:41.750 [DEBUG][1] - AC3 Audio Renderer
2018-07-01 16:27:41.750 [DEBUG][1] - NPVR CC Dump
2018-07-01 16:27:41.750 [DEBUG][1] - EVR Renderer
2018-07-01 16:27:41.750 [DEBUG][1] - LAV Audio Decoder
2018-07-01 16:27:41.750 [DEBUG][1] - CyberLink Video Decoder (PDVD13)
2018-07-01 16:27:41.750 [DEBUG][1] - Line 21 Decoder
2018-07-01 16:27:41.750 [DEBUG][1] - NPVR CC Extractor
2018-07-01 16:27:41.750 [DEBUG][1] - NPVR TS Reader 4

[sub]

i do notice that all my streams are very bursty as well, also .ts streams fed from a m3u playlist..what's controlling the request sizes?

With a ts stream NextPVR isn't sending requests - it's just opens a connection and continuously reads from it, and as soon as it gets data, it writes it to disk.

Are you seeing problems with this in NextPVR's player?

or are you saying that the servers are only giving out the streams in those bursts?

It can - it's usually a m3u8 stream thing, but I have seen an IPTV provider that delivers the 5 second chunks over ts url every 5 seconds (like they're natively capturing it to m3u8 files, and reading those files to deliver the ts version of the stream.

[sgilani]

These last few patches I've been posting have been trying to add all the audio decoders when you're in live tv. Strangely your logs are still only show a single decoder being added, and not sure why let. It sounds like it might have worked for PBS. I'll double check the logic for reasons why it might be happening. You've got your various audio decoders enabled in the Settings->Decoders screen right?

Yep, I have LAV chosen as the decoder for all audio formats. Could it be that only one instance of it is being added since its the same decoder?

[sub]

Yep, I have LAV chosen as the decoder for all audio formats. Could it be that only one instance of it is being added since its the same decoder?

Nah, it wont be that.

I'll post a patch with more logging, so I can see why

[pBS]

no, not seeing more than 1 audio Decoder in logs...possibly because all mine are set to lav as well?
it works now tho...used to happen all the time with any format changes, even same codec, w change in channels,etc..

as for the pauses, i see spikes in cpu when watching iptv, what is causing that? spikes past 50% when nothing else is going on but reading a stream..
typically it's around 10-20 steadily streaming, but around the time of a burst of streams, it spikes pretty good..never hits over 75% tho.
when i watch the data coming in, it seems to have problems when the streams burst, or if watching/recording another stream, and they burst at same time, seems like too much to handle...
odd thing is, when it's not too long a glitch,i can skip back to problem area and it plays the same glitchy area fine..
usually it takes skipping past glitch and letting it play thru some timeline and then skipping back to glitch and let play.

[sub]

Yep, I have LAV chosen as the decoder for all audio formats. Could it be that only one instance of it is being added since its the same decoder?

Give this one a go.

[sub]

no, not seeing more than 1 audio Decoder in logs...possibly because all mine are set to lav as well?

Sorry - I worked out why when I added some more logging... I was confused...

as for the pauses, i see spikes in cpu when watching iptv, what is causing that?

What process?