[mikebetz42]

cmyth worked flawlessly for me on Gotham and Kodi, but the newer pvr.mythtv add-on has been getting better but still stops at random

Occasionally getting a small buffering with live tv. The device and the front end are both hard wired. For all I know it could be a MythTV problem...

debug kodi.log: http://xbmclogs.com/poivtxhde

I do thank janbar for all the work going into this project!!

[mikebetz42]

I have the Ceton InfiniTV PCIe version.

Looks like MythTV is not sending the data... I have re-installed MythTV from scratch about two months ago, problem persists...

19:25:28 T:1617257536 NOTICE: iMX : IPU thread started
19:25:34 T:1265747008 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)TransferRequestBlock: select timeout
19:25:44 T:1265747008 NOTICE: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)ReadResponse: socket(0x4d8e0d70) timed out (0)
19:25:54 T:1265747008 NOTICE: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)ReadResponse: socket(0x4d8e0d70) timed out (1)
19:26:03 T:1598026816 NOTICE: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)ReadResponse: socket(0x7279c8b8) timed out (0)
19:26:04 T:1265747008 NOTICE: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)ReadResponse: socket(0x4d8e0d70) timed out (2)
19:26:13 T:1598026816 NOTICE: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)ReadResponse: socket(0x7279c8b8) timed out (1)
19:26:14 T:1265747008 NOTICE: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)ReadResponse: socket(0x4d8e0d70) timed out (3)
19:26:23 T:1598026816 NOTICE: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)ReadResponse: socket(0x7279c8b8) timed out (2)
19:26:24 T:1265747008 NOTICE: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)ReadResponse: socket(0x4d8e0d70) timed out (4)
19:26:33 T:1598026816 NOTICE: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)ReadResponse: socket(0x7279c8b8) timed out (3)
19:26:35 T:1265747008 NOTICE: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)ReadResponse: socket(0x4d8e0d70) timed out (5)
19:26:35 T:1265747008 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)HangException: protocol connection hang with error 110
19:26:43 T:1598026816 NOTICE: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)ReadResponse: socket(0x7279c8b8) timed out (4)
19:26:53 T:1598026816 NOTICE: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)ReadResponse: socket(0x7279c8b8) timed out (5)
19:26:53 T:1598026816 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)HangException: protocol connection hang with error 110
19:26:54 T:1707971648 NOTICE: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: RunHouseKeeping: Ask to refresh handler connection since control connection has hanging
19:27:16 T:1256191040 WARNING: CRenderManager::WaitForBuffer - timeout waiting for buffer
19:27:19 T:1265747008 WARNING: Previous line repeats 1 times.
19:27:19 T:1265747008 NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
19:27:19 T:1256191040 WARNING: CRenderManager::WaitForBuffer - timeout waiting for buffer
19:27:19 T:1378874432 WARNING: Previous line repeats 1 times.
19:27:19 T:1378874432 NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
19:27:25 T:1247802432 NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
19:27:28 T:1707971648 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
19:27:28 T:1707971648 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)SendRequest: failed (9)
19:27:28 T:1707971648 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)WSResponse: invalid response
19:27:28 T:1707971648 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)GetRecordedList1_5: invalid response
19:27:33 T:1247802432 NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
19:27:39 T:1247802432 NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false

[janbar]

@mattlach @mikebetz42

Different case here:
- For the first you have a read timeout after 3 sec. The backend didn't update file size. I will update to allow 10 sec before close demuxer.

- for the second case you have been disconnected , probably because backend has aborted: i know this issue and i opened a ticket for mythtv. Seems exist a race condition during program break when addon call get_file_position method. In a new patch i will try to call less often this method.

For all those cases you can pause for 10 sec to fix the issue avoiding read ahead and timeout.

[janbar]

I pushed the git branch helix_read_timeout including the fixes. You can try it.

[carpa5]

I pushed the git branch helix_read_timeout including the fixes. You can try it.

Janbar,

I seem to be having the exact same issue of the backend (latest 0.28) dying during a program break while watching live tv. Could this patch be applied to the doityourself branch ? I would like test it out.

Thanks

[carpa5]

Skipping in live tv is not working correctly for me. I have my skip back set to 7 seconds. In live tv it will only skip back 2-3 seconds. 30 second skip forward seems to only skip about 8 seconds. The 10 min skip forward/back doesn't seem to work at all. I'm running the latest 0.27.4+fixes from mythbuntu and pvr.mythtv 1.12.1. Tuning device is a hdhomerun using the heavy transcoding profile. I'm running openelec 5.0.2 (kodi 14.1) on an asus chromebox. Is this a known problem? If not, what should I look at to fix it?

Has this been solved ? I am having a similar issue with the latest 0.28. I can pause live TV for lets say 10 minutes, and then when I try to skip any time back or forward it always ends up doing only about 10 seconds in either direction. If I use fast forward "f" then it works ok but I really would like to be able to skip the regular way ( ">" "<" "[" "]" )without having to watch the video.

[carpa5]

I pushed the git branch helix_read_timeout including the fixes. You can try it.

Janbar,

I seem to be having the exact same issue of the backend (latest 0.28) dying during a program break while watching live tv. Could this patch be applied to the doityourself branch ? I would like test it out.

Thanks

Janbar,

Please hold off on my request. I just compiled mythtv [v0.28-pre-2821-gbc1ffba] and am not seeing this issue. Will monitor further to see if it reappears.

[mattlach]

I pushed the git branch helix_read_timeout including the fixes. You can try it.

Janbar, you are the best!

If this works, I definitely owe the project a donation!

Where can I find your git info to try it out?

(Going to have to read up on this, it's been a while since I last checked out and compiled source code :p )

[mattlach]

Has this been solved ? I am having a similar issue with the latest 0.28. I can pause live TV for lets say 10 minutes, and then when I try to skip any time back or forward it always ends up doing only about 10 seconds in either direction. If I use fast forward "f" then it works ok but I really would like to be able to skip the regular way ( ">" "<" "[" "]" )without having to watch the video.

Maybe this is a 0.28 issue? It works fine in 0.27 for me.

Funnily enough, skipping live tv was NOT working well for me with the old cmyth plugin :p

[mattlach]

Different case here:
- For the first you have a read timeout after 3 sec. The backend didn't update file size. I will update to allow 10 sec before close demuxer.

Interesting, on a side note. I wonder why there is a delay. In my troubleshooting I have given the backend A LOT of resources. Live TV is even recorded to a local dedicated fast SSD to alleviate issues like these. (was the first thing I tried when I had freezing)

Backend also has 4 cores and 6 GB of RAM.

The funny thing is, with a delay like this you might expect more of it on more intensive high bitrate HD channels but it mostly happens on channel 1768, the only SD channel we watch. Could possibly be something to do with signal quality of that channel. I subscribe to it for my fiance, it is a channel piped in from Brazil.

[peterman1002]

If I disable channel icons in the add-on, default icons still show up. Is there a way I can disable icons and not have any icons show up at all? I'm running a PI and icons slow the channel list and guide down. Things are much faster when the icons are disabled, but I want nothing to show up instead of the default place-holder icon that shows up.

Yes, I can go through the channel manager and select no icon for each channel. However, that takes forever and if I need to reset the PVR database then the default icon comes back.

Thanks!
Peter

[janbar]

@carpa5 , the git branch is 15_read_timeout

[janbar]

@peterman1002 , remove or replace file channel.png from folder pvr.mythtv/resource/

[carpa5]

Janbar,

I have built the "15_read_timeout " branch on both Windows and Linux. They seem to be working fine, but as I previously stated my problem seems to have disappeared since i updated to mythtv [v0.28-pre-2821-gbc1ffba]. If I used anything from mythtv a couple days before this I definitely had the backend dying on a program break. I guess it is up to you if you want to keep this branch alive.

Thanks

[mattlach]

Where can I find your git info to try it out?

(Going to have to read up on this, it's been a while since I last checked out and compiled source code :p )

Never mind, found the link on the first page of this thread.

Will build tonight and report back with results!