NextPVR Stutters/Freezes When Live TV Goes To ADs

[kalebroc]

Hi Guys,

Struggling with a strange issue - I currently have NextPVR running on a Windows 10 PC serving a few Kodi clients - the spec of this PC is:

Intel Core i7-4790
16GB RAM
240GB SSD (As Windows drive - clean installation of Windows 10 - no other software besides NextPVR & PIA VPN)
1TB Seagate SSHD (As drive to save NextPVR Recordings)
1GB Network Card Wired To 1GB Fibre Internet
4GB Nvidia GTX 745 Video Card

I have an IPTV device setup in NextPVR loading a local M3U file and all this seems fine, NextPVR settings are more or less left as default when a clean install was performed, only thing that I changed was the recording folder location and obviously setup the IPTV device. Great, this all looks good so far, everything works great on any of the Kodi clients, all channels load quickly and I can record etc. etc. The problem seems to come when the Live TV changes to the AD break, it stutters, freezes even sometimes stops the channel and goes back to the TV guide. This happens in nearly all channels - mostly UK based channels, at first I though it was something to do with the audio changing from Dolby Digital 5.1 back to stereo for the ADs but it doesn't matter, a lot of the channels stay at Dolby Digital for the ADs , I have tested a lot of these channels in VLC player and all work fine. I have also tested various things like with or without the VPN, have everything on my network switched off bar the NextPVR server and only one Kodi system to name just the numerous things I have tried, I guess I'm just wondering has anyone here come across something similar. I have attached the NextPVR logs, thanks in advance guys

[mvallevand]

Kodi should be using PCM for audio out since DD passthrough isn't supported with PVR, maybe you need to set 2.0 channel output when using PCM?
If that is not the problem better to report it on the Kodi forum

Martin

[kalebroc]

Kodi should be using PCM for audio out since DD passthrough isn't supported with PVR, maybe you need to set 2.0 channel output when using  PCM?
If that is not the problem better to report it on the Kodi forum

Martin

Hi Martin,

Thank you for such a quick reply, I'll check into what you have suggested here and then will also check out the Kodi forum if needed.
Thanks again.