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Sadly, your link just takes me to a "your video is private" message... I've seen pixellations on videos like that before ... :-)
What happens if you record the programme rather than stream it? Can you play that back via the tvheadend addon? Can you play it back over an NFS or SMB share, or if you move it locally?
I run much lower-spec'ed clients for OE (Atom) and Windows (i5 mobile), and they're both perfectly happy with HD channels.
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Some serious macroblocking going on there. Soooo... I'd be looking at:
1. The network, and the load on that (test local playback to eliminate) - although the fact that you can stream to VLC in tvheadend's web client suggests that's good enough.
2. Client loading - again, can you play locally
3. Server loading - although streaming via the WebUI should be the same as via the addon, AFAIK
4. XBMC settings
5. Mounting the recordings folder directly through NFS/SMB and seeing if you can play that way
It looks more like a bandwidth/bitrate issue than a client horsepower issue.
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That's where we need to know if XBMC will play the exact same files (1) over the network, and (2) locally. If it does, then it's not a rendering issue at XBMC's end... if it doesn't, then that moves the conversation somewhere else.
I'd suggest that you set up a share from your tvh server and mount that in XBMC. That uses the same source hardware (your server) client hardware and network; see if this works.
Then copy the recorded file to your clients and see if it plays there.
We need to eliminate some big bits of the infrastructure, and then use debugging to see what's going wrong.
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That suggests to me that XBMC is configured correctly to render HD sources, that your network has the bandwidth to support the stream, and that both client and server have the hardware to serve/receive the file.
... which means that it's the tvheadend software or the XBMC addon that's at fault. The fact that this problem exists on two separate platforms points to the backend, perhaps...?
What version of tvheadend are you running, what version(s) of the addon?
... and then we maybe need to start looking at logs (which, I'll confess now, we'll need someone else's help, since that's not really my strength).
Or you can just be happy watching recordings from a shared directory, and pretend that this never happened :-)
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You really have a channel in 1080p? Are you sure it's not 1080i?
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OK well maybe the difference is related to the interlacing?
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Recorded 2 hours yesterday without any errors, its just the streaming :/
