glitches through Kodi 16.1 across network

[nscrivener]

Hi guys

I am running NextPVR 3.83 and Kodi 16.1. Having some issues with getting smooth playback across my home network.

If I use the NextPVR web interface, I can watch live HD television with no issues at all, video and audio is perfectly smooth, whether on max settings or with the reduced bandwidth settings. So clearly network throughput is not an issue here.

If I try and watch live TV through Kodi however, on clients that are across the network, I seem to get a small audio glitch out every 10-20 seconds. I'm not sure what to do to fix this. This behaviour happens on both an android device as well as my Macbook Pro. However on the Windows 10 pc that the server is running on, I have no issues with Kodi.

Other than the different operating system, the Windows PC is connected to a television which supports changing the frame rate of the display to match the TV source. There is a mismatch between the 60hz frame rates on the other devices and the 50hz TV rate. I thought this could be part of the issue? But then it plays back perfectly in the web browser....

If anybody has any ideas I would be very grateful for the help.

Thanks in advance.

[monotok]

Hello,

I don't have a solution but I do have the same issue and think it might be useful if we compare our setups. I have an ESXi hypervisor running lots of VMs, nextpvr is running within Windows 8 with literally nothing else installed except some required things like codecs.

I have given it 4GB of RAM and 2 CPU's at 2.9GHZ. Task manager never shows it struggling at all when streaming to Kodi. All my network is Gitabit ethernet and the phone is connected via 802.11 AC at around 500 - 700 MBit.

TVheadend works perfectly however it does not work as well with XMLTV (Schedules Direct) as it doesn't have half of the episode information while NextPVR is perfect in that regard, I want XMLTV because Emby can then categorise it properly and not just stick it in my movies folder. I thought it could be the disk even though they are 10K SAS drives in RAID as TVH is storing timeshift in RAM, I created a RAM disk in Windows 8 but it made no difference.

It seems to stream perfectly fine but like you said every 10-20 seconds I get a glitch in the audio which is noticeable and very annoying. I have started to get a buffered video occasionally too. I can't see anything in the logs either, I tailed it while streaming.

[monotok]

Just a quick update, I streamed it using VLC http://your-machine:8866/live?channel=#1 and it worked perfectly.

[monotok]

Hello All,

Quick update again, after much troubleshooting I still could not get it to work. Playing the local radio through it was much worse than TV. Interestingly it seemed to work ok using nextpvr on a physical box rather than a VM on ESXi.

I fixed it by upgrading Kodi to Kodi 17 Beta 6 which in turns uses plugin version 2.4.X instead of 1.14.X. It plays on my TV and Android perfectly with no problems and the new default theme is absolutely stunning. Seems very stable so far (from reading the release notes beta 6 seems to be getting ready for release so should be ok) as Kodi 16 wasn't very stable for me anyway.

Hopefully that fixes your issue too nscrivener.