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Problem of playing recordings via Kodi pvr.hts on Raspberry PI

Added by Rufius Luck about 9 years ago

Hi,

I am expierencing a strange problem (at least to me it seems strange):

If I record a TV program on tvheadend and afterwards start the playback, the recording is stuttering very badly. If I transfer the ts file of the recording to my raspberry pi localy the same stuttering happens. If I play the file with VLC on my pc everything is fine. So I guess the recorded file is ok. Playing the recording on my Ipad via Tvhclient also works fine.

Using the timeshift function via Kodi/raspberry also works fine.

I guess there must be something different with the recording playback requirements on my Kodi/raspbery setup.

Has anyone an idea where I should start analysing my problem?

Best regards
rufius


Replies (3)

RE: Problem of playing recordings via Kodi pvr.hts on Raspberry PI - Added by Rufius Luck about 9 years ago

Maybe my problem is related to this: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/7905

By the way I am using:

Tvheadend 4.0.7 on an Intel Atom 330
Openelec 6.0 with pvr.hts 2.1.18

Since I did not find the problem, I will setup a new kodi test installation on a x64 system with ubuntu. Maybe this problem got already solved and is not yet implemented in openelec.

Best regards

rufius

RE: Problem of playing recordings via Kodi pvr.hts on Raspberry PI - Added by Rufius Luck about 9 years ago

Ok I have tried to play the recording on a kodibuntu installation with the same result.

Are these the correct DVR settings?

Unbenannt.JPG (65 KB) Unbenannt.JPG DVR settings

RE: Problem of playing recordings via Kodi pvr.hts on Raspberry PI - Added by Prof Yaffle about 9 years ago

Your DVR settings look fine.

The fact that VLC will play the file, and other clients as well, suggests a Kodi issue and not the file - so not tvheadend.

The fact that you get the same issue if you play locally vs via the TV addon (pvr.hts) suggests that it's not the addon.

The fact that it follows you from OpenELEC to Kodibuntu... I can't explain. Maybe try Kodi on a different platform to see if it also struggles? It could be a video driver problem on that box, for example, or it could be an ffmpeg problem in that version of Kodi.

I'd look to the configuration of Kodi initially... do you have passthrough audio set, are you syncing to vertical or have some other setting that's changing the way Kodi is trying to play it back - perhaps dropping video frames to keep up with audio, for example.

If you want to check tvh, enable debug logging in the webUI (bottom right, arrows, cog) and see if there are any relevant messages as it records. Otherwise, you really need a debug log from Kodi and/or see if anything is in syslog.

By all means, upload a sample somewhere and I'll take a look on various platforms/Kodi builds, but it sounds like you may need to take this to the Kodi forums to get any real insight. Let's look, though.

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