Known streamingproblems in nPVR 2.03 and VLC 1.1.7/8 ?

[ShiningDragon]

Hi UJB!

I have a question. It's not sure if the following problem ist a problem of nPVR, EWA or VLC (or in general something else), but it started to happen after upgrading nPVR and VLC.

If i select live tv, starts the streaming (after configuring/updating the settings) i launch the vlc player.

The next minutes all is fine, video will be streamed and i can watch/listen to the stream. But then, suddenly the stream interrupts. VLC is stopping the playback of the stream and it is not possible to resume this session (it's feeling like that your internetconnection is down while getting a new ip). The only way to resume watching is, that i close vlc, stop streaming and close the stream window opened by ewa. I have to start from the beginning (select channel, configure, update, launch vlc) just to watch another time, after stopping the stream.
This happens all the time. Not just with live tv. Even with recorded and archived videofiles.
The timezone, were the streaming interrupts, is variable and not fix. It happened to me 10 minutes after starting a stream... it happened after 25 minutes watching and so on.

All this started to happen after upgrading npvr to 2.03 and vlc to 1.1.7 / 1.1.8 (cache cleared).

Any idea?

[UncleJohnsBand]

Hi UJB!

I have a question. It's not sure if the following problem ist a problem of nPVR, EWA or VLC (or in general something else), but it started to happen after upgrading nPVR and VLC.

If i select live tv, starts the streaming (after configuring/updating the settings) i launch the vlc player.

The next minutes all is fine, video will be streamed and i can watch/listen to the stream. But then, suddenly the stream interrupts. VLC is stopping the playback of the stream and it is not possible to resume this session (it's feeling like that your internetconnection is down while getting a new ip). The only way to resume watching is, that i close vlc, stop streaming and close the stream window opened by ewa. I have to start from the beginning (select channel, configure, update, launch vlc) just to watch another time, after stopping the stream.
This happens all the time. Not just with live tv. Even with recorded and archived videofiles.
The timezone, were the streaming interrupts, is variable and not fix. It happened to me 10 minutes after starting a stream... it happened after 25 minutes watching and so on.

All this started to happen after upgrading npvr to 2.03 and vlc to 1.1.7 / 1.1.8 (cache cleared).

Any idea?

Make sure auto-resume is enabled on VLC....

In VLC (on the client)
[INDENT]Tools
Preferences
Show Settings All (bottom left of the standard preferences display)
Input Codecs
HTTP(S)
Check the Auto Reconnect box
You can also set the caching value here as well....I keep mine at 5000 (5 seconds)[/INDENT]

[ShiningDragon]

Ah! This looks interesting. I will check this out next weekend, if i am back at work again (last weekends no movies... *sniff*). Perhaps this would do the trick. Thank you, UJB.

[ShiningDragon]

Yep, that worked like a charm! I am not sure, but i think that every new vlc release is even more worse than the previous one. I wouldn't call this "evolution". ^^;

[UncleJohnsBand]

Yep, that worked like a charm! I am not sure, but i think that every new vlc release is even more worse than the previous one. I wouldn't call this "evolution". ^^;

Thanks for the update....I have noticed that these cache settings have a tendancy to get reset with updates so they must not persist them in the profile for some reason.