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Hi all,

I'm trying to watch a webcam stream (Mobotix i25) on a Raspberry Pi B+ V1.2 with OpenELEC 5.0.8.
The stream opens, but I get a still standing picture for about 10 seconds, then a fast forward until it pauses again for about 10 seconds or more.

When I click on fast forward, the stream runs without pausing. It seems like a buffering issue to me.

I'm calling this stream in a .strm playlist:

Code:

http://admin:[email protected]/control/faststream.jpg?stream=full&fps=10

I also tried this in /storage/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml (file did not exist, had to be created):

Code:

<advancedsettings>
  <network>
    <buffermode>3</buffermode>
  </network>
     <pvr>
      <cacheindvdplayer>false</cacheindvdplayer>
     </pvr>
</advancedsettings>

Advancedsettings seems to have no effect at all...?!

Thanks for any help :-)
Adrian

[popcornmix]

What is the framerate of the webcam? In general Kodi doesn't behave well with low framerate video.
Does disabling omxplayer in video/acceleration settings help?

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I tried different framerates (10, 25 etc., "&fps=10" in the URL), same effect.

Disabling hardware acceleration did help! But the Pi CPU does not manage to process more than HD at about 10 fps. Thanks for the hint, any suggestions how to make the hardware acceleration work properly?

[popcornmix]

Disable omxplayer but not MMAL. It will still be hardware accelerated.

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Great, that worked! Thank you so much ;-)