Buffer Continuing after Kodi Close/Live TV Stop

[liquidbad]

Hi,

I am having an issue where NextPVR misses (or Kodi never sends) the stop/close connection to the NextPVR backend and therefore the stream continues to buffer until eventually the HDD runs out of space.

The only error I see is when I close Kodi I see the following:


16:37:18 T:7440 FATAL: C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\addons\pvr.nextpvr\pvr.nextpvr.dll is a system dll and should never be released
16:37:18 T:7440 NOTICE: application stopped...
16:37:18 T:7440 FATAL: /libcurl.dll is a system dll and should never be released
16:37:18 T:7440 FATAL: /cpluff.dll is a system dll and should never be released
16:37:18 T:7440 FATAL: /cec.dll is a system dll and should never be released

BTW this occurred in both Jarvis and the new Krypton Beta2.

Thanks

[DParsons]

Hello liquidbad I was just checking the forums to see if anyone had reported on the status of this issue after the last update. I found it to be exactly the same as before and the v3.8.3 change log does not mention doing anything in regards to live TV while using Kodi so it looks like this has not been resolved. I've since just switched exclusively to NextPVR for live TV until it is resolved.

[schammy]

I'm having the same issue as noted here. I'm using Kodi as the PVR front end. This is very disappointing as I think NPVR is the only backend that supports cablecard and Kodi. And I can't bring myselff to go back to WMC.

[sub]

If you guys want to supply the logs showing this happen, I'm happy to take a look.

[mvallevand]

I don't think there is a heartbeat in timeshifting mode so if Kodi is killed or crashes and no shutdown signal is received this is possible. If you turn off timeshifting that would help.

Martin

[liquidbad]

Hi Sub,

I've attached the debug logs to original post.

@Martin--this happens even when I go through the normal shutdown procedure of Kodi, it's not limited to crashes. Not sure if kodi is bad about have a defined shutdown routine or not though. I've also gone ahead and testing turning on and off timeshifting. While turning timeshifting off does eliminate the issue of having the tuner staying tuned/buffering. It yields unwatchable TV that stutters and continuously tries to rebuffer mid stream.

Thanks
liq

[DParsons]

Hello Sub,

I was just looking through the old posts I've made on this subject (link below). This is from my post a few months ago, I'm not sure if this ever got resolved so I had tried posting this issue on the Kodi forum just a day or two ago, but I have not gotten any response from them yet. After having posted this topic here before I assumed this was not an issue with NextPVR. I can also get some new logs as it's easily reproduce-able and happens every time liveTV is watched with Kodi and NextPVR as the DVR backend.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post503510

[sjd]

Hello,

If I may offer some information to assist in this issue. I have Kodi 16.1 with NPVR on a Win 7 machine, Hauppauge WinTV dual HD tuner. I'm not sure when it started but for at least a couple of months, approximately 90% of the time when I stop a TV channel in Kodi, the NPVR Live TV buffering continues (red (n) in notification icon, .ts files build in the live TV buffer). I've attached a log where, from a clean system start, I start and stop a channel and after a few times failing (buffer continues) one time success followed by a dozen or so failures then one more success where I ended. It seems like some race condition related to the Kodi add-on.
Of interest, the process succeeds 100% of the time from any of my other Kodi client machines, it is only with Kodi on the same machine as NPVR server where this issue occurs.

Cheers,
Shawn

[DParsons]

Hello All,

I just upgraded my kodi media centre to v17rc3 and this issue has ceased to happen. I did also just upgrade my pc to win10 so I am not sure if that has anything to do with why this issue has ended so I'm assuming it was kodi v17rc3 that has rectified this issue. What ever was happening must have been because of kodi because it's fine now. I've been testing this for a week just to make sure it was settled and I've switched to watching livetv with kodi exclusively and have had no problems with it buffering afterward, and the temp file created is immediately deleted or just changes to the new channel tuned just like if I was using nextpvr.