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TVheadend Jerky Video with Kodi

Added by lord slash about 8 years ago

Hello, I have a Raspberry Pi 2 that I use as backend with HTS Tvheadend 4.0.8 ~ OpenELEC Tvh-addon v6.0.4 and I have a Raspberry Pi B+ that I would like to use as frontend with openelec. If I use the TVHeadend PVR addon when I start the video the screen remains black and I can hear only the audio, but when I use the IPTV Simple PVR addon I can see the video and I can hear the audio, but the video is extremely jerky (very low framerate).
Some more infos:
-Both the PIs are on the same LAN
-When I use VLC as frontend (on my PC or on my smartphone) everything works perfectly
-I have purchased the MPEG2 and VC-1 codecs for the backend PI

So I would say something is not configured properly on my front end PI, but I don't get what.
Thank you for your help!


Replies (6)

RE: TVheadend Jerky Video with Kodi - Added by Robert Cameron about 8 years ago

Sounds like you haven't properly enabled the MPEG2 license. What does the output of `vcgencmd codec_enabled MPG2` say?

RE: TVheadend Jerky Video with Kodi - Added by lord slash about 8 years ago

both codecs are enabled (on the backend PI):

LivingRoom:~ # vcgencmd codec_enabled MPG2
MPG2=enabled
LivingRoom:~ # vcgencmd codec_enabled WVC1
WVC1=enabled

RE: TVheadend Jerky Video with Kodi - Added by Robert Cameron about 8 years ago

Well, if it's not the codec, it could be a bandwidth issue. Are they wired, or are you using WiFi? And what about the source of the recordings? You said they're being served by a RPi, but what is the storage medium? Could there be a bandwidth/throughput issue from the source, perhaps by reading and writing simultaneously if you're using timeshifting?

(Another thought: Have you enabled hardware video decoding on the frontend?)

RE: TVheadend Jerky Video with Kodi - Added by lord slash about 8 years ago

They are both wired to the same router. No recordings, I am watching TV in live stream (or I would like to). As I said the stream works perfectly when my front end is my laptop or my phone.
The hardware video decode is by default enabled on openelec, but I tried to disable it and then when I use the TVHeadend PVR addon I can actually see some frames before the PI freezes (when the acceleration is enabled I see only a black screen and I hear the audio)...

RE: TVheadend Jerky Video with Kodi - Added by lord slash about 8 years ago

anyone? is there some other tests that I can make in order to isolate the problem?

RE: TVheadend Jerky Video with Kodi - Added by Chris Nicholaidis almost 8 years ago

On Android versions of Kodi you'll want to disable amcodec so only mediacodecs are enabled but I'm not sure if this applies to openelec

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