2019-11-15, 01:10 AM
In addition to regular TV channels my cable co provides an assortment of music channels. SWMBO asked if I could add one to NextPVR. That was easy as they show up as a regular TV channel, but I'm having problems playing them reliably. The Kodi clients on both a OSMC Vero 4K and several Pi3 all have problems. I'm guessing this might be more related to Kodi, but I'm not positive as I never played with them in V4.
They all start playing sound but don't show any screen for 15-20 seconds, then they usually drop the sound for 15-20 seconds, start sound again, and then finally show the video screen. After playing audio for 20-30 seconds they then drop completely on average 2 out of 3 times. Sometimes they play fine but even then it takes 45-60 seconds before the video screen will come up. interestingly if I pull a stream directly through VLC both audio and video come active almost instantly and play with no problems. As best I can tell the audio/video format is not the normal for a TV channel so I'm guessing that most likely has something to do with it too.
Attached are screenshots showing the video format for both a normal TV channel and one of the music channels along with clean Kodi and NextPVR logs. Both NextPVR and kodi were restarted and then I tried to play the music channel. First attempt played about 1 min then died, the second attempt did the same and the 3rd attempt played fine. After several minutes of playing I pulled both logs so they should only show those events. I can do a screen record if it would help.
Version: 5.0.0.191018
Ubuntu 18.04 VM
HDHR Prime
npvr.zip (Size: 250.77 KB / Downloads: 5)
They all start playing sound but don't show any screen for 15-20 seconds, then they usually drop the sound for 15-20 seconds, start sound again, and then finally show the video screen. After playing audio for 20-30 seconds they then drop completely on average 2 out of 3 times. Sometimes they play fine but even then it takes 45-60 seconds before the video screen will come up. interestingly if I pull a stream directly through VLC both audio and video come active almost instantly and play with no problems. As best I can tell the audio/video format is not the normal for a TV channel so I'm guessing that most likely has something to do with it too.
Attached are screenshots showing the video format for both a normal TV channel and one of the music channels along with clean Kodi and NextPVR logs. Both NextPVR and kodi were restarted and then I tried to play the music channel. First attempt played about 1 min then died, the second attempt did the same and the 3rd attempt played fine. After several minutes of playing I pulled both logs so they should only show those events. I can do a screen record if it would help.
Version: 5.0.0.191018
Ubuntu 18.04 VM
HDHR Prime
npvr.zip (Size: 250.77 KB / Downloads: 5)
NextPVR V6.1.5.231022 - Ubuntu 22.04 VM / 4 core / 8Gb memory
HDHR Prime X2 / HDFX-2 /Schedule Direct / 2X Pi4 + & 3X Pi3 LibreELEC Kodi clients
Server - TrueNAS/ SuperMicro MBD-X10SL7-F MB / Xeon E3-1246 / 32Gb Unbuffered ECC / 8 X 4TB RAIDZ2
HDHR Prime X2 / HDFX-2 /Schedule Direct / 2X Pi4 + & 3X Pi3 LibreELEC Kodi clients
Server - TrueNAS/ SuperMicro MBD-X10SL7-F MB / Xeon E3-1246 / 32Gb Unbuffered ECC / 8 X 4TB RAIDZ2