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Severe Live TV Buffering/Lag Issue on MXQ TV Box (so far only pausing fixes it) - ChaosMageX - 2016-01-08 I am having an issue where when I attempt to watch live over-the-air TV on my Android TV box via Kodi 15.2 Isengard, the box experiences severe lag, stopping the video feed every 2 seconds to buffer, over and over again, anywhere from "Buffering... 8%" to "Buffering... 12%", unless I pause it for 5 to 10 seconds, which usually fixes the issue for about half an hour before it starts happening again. Sometimes not even that fixes the issue, and it'll keep buffering no matter how long I have it paused. This happens even when the box is hard wired into my home network with an ethernet cable. What's weird is that it can play pre-recorded shows just fine, without any buffering at all, even when connected wirelessly. It's only when I try to watch live television that this happens. Front-End Client Used: Tictid OTT TV Box from Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/TICTID-Android-Amlogic-Quad-core-Support/dp/B00WON0Q8W Model: MXQ Manufacturer: MBX Device/Product: m201C Brand: MBX Android Version: 4.4.2 (Kit Kat) API Level: 19 Build ID: KOT49H Fingerprint: MBX/m201C/m201C:4.4.2/KOT49H/20150602:user/test-keys Build number: KOT49H.20150602 test-keys Kernel version: 3.10.33 user1@ubuntu-server #12 Tue Jun 2 15:11:01 CST 2015 CPU: Amlogic S805 Cortex-A5 Quad Core @ 1.5 GHz Processor: ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l) Cores: 4 Max Frequency: 1536 MHz Instruction Sets: armeabi-v7a, armeabi SIMD Instructions: NEON BogoMips: 2.00 Hardware: Amlogic Meson8B Revision: 000a Serial: 1b00000000000000 Memory: 831 MB System RAM: 831 MB JVM Max Memory: 64 MB Internal Storage: 4703 MB GPU: Mali-450 Quad Core @ 600 MHz Renderer: Mali-450 MP Version: OpenGL ES 2.0 Vendor: ARM GLSL Version: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.00 Software: Kodi 15.2 Git:2015-10-19-02e7013 (Compiled: Oct 19 2015) NextPVR PVR Client Version 1.10.8 Back-End Server Used: (currently) HP 15-F111DX laptop, stock build, right off the shelf, no modifications CPU: AMD A8-6410 APU with AMB Radeon R5 Graphics, 2000 MHz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) RAM: 8.00 GB (6.94 GB total physical memory) HDD: WDC WD30 EZRZ-00Z5HB0 SCSI Disk Device, 750 GB, 5400 RPM Software: NextPVR 3.5.7 Tuners Used: 3 x SiliconDust HDHomeRun Connect HDHR4-2US with up-to-date firmware So, how exactly do I fix this buffering issue? Is there some setting in Kodi that I need to adjust? I've tried modifying the advancedsettings.xml file as described under the http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Modify_the_video_cache page, but none of the four examples given on that page have fixed the issue. Is there some special combination or some other settings I also need to set in the advancedsettings.xml in order to get it to work right on the MXQ Android TV Box? Or is the Android TV Box I got simply not powerful enough and I need to buy one with a better CPU/RAM/memory to get it to work? Or does the problem originate in the back-end server computer? Is there some setting in NextPVR I need to adjust, possibly in the registry, or is the computer I'm using just not powerful enough? Could the issue be in the network itself, particularly the TP-Link TL-SG1008D bridge that I used to interconnect the three tuners, the server, the client, and the router that assigned their IP addresses. Again, this buffering/lag issue occurs even when the client android TV box is directly hard wired into the ethernet bridge through a 3 foot cat5e ethernet cable, and it only occurs with live television. Pre-recorded TV can play just fine without any buffering at all. Again, pausing the live TV for about 5 to 10 seconds temporarily fixes the issue, but only for about half an hour before it starts all over again, if that's any clue as to what's causing this problem and how I can fix it and not have to keep pausing the live TV in order to get it to work. RE: Severe Live TV Buffering/Lag Issue on MXQ TV Box (so far only pausing fixes it) - Ned Scott - 2016-01-09 Can you get us a debug log (wiki)? My guess would be that Kodi mistakenly thinks it needs to buffer when it doesn't, which is why letting it pause for a few seconds seems to fix it. RE: Severe Live TV Buffering/Lag Issue on MXQ TV Box (so far only pausing fixes it) - ChaosMageX - 2016-01-12 Well, here's a debug log: http://filebin.ca/2TEldlxeGPDB/kodi.2016-01-12-old01.log It took a while to get one because once I figured out how to turn on debugging, I had to figure out how to root my Android TV Box so that I could get access to the debug file, as well as perform several debug sessions so that I could have a debug file that contains plenty of instances of the buffering issue happening. Anyway, everywhere there's a message containing "------ Window Init (DialogSeekBar.xml) ------", that's where buffering occurs. I seem to be seeing several common messages around these, including: Code: 0 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available What exactly does this mean? Like I said, this buffering issue occurs even when the Android TV Box is plugged directly into the network with a physical ethernet cable, giving it access to a connection more than fast enough to stream high definition video. Does the message about asking for a new data packet and none being available mean that the server is to blame, or is it some setting on the client box that needs to be adjusted? RE: Severe Live TV Buffering/Lag Issue on MXQ TV Box (so far only pausing fixes it) - Ned Scott - 2016-01-12 I'm guessing the video had some change mid-stream, which is normal for live TV, and that causes Kodi to think that the video has stalled and needs to buffer. A dev would need to look into this, as it's way above my head. RE: Severe Live TV Buffering/Lag Issue on MXQ TV Box (so far only pausing fixes it) - Ned Scott - 2016-01-12 If you could, use your same forum username and password and make a ticket for this on http://trac.kodi.tv . Just say what you said here. RE: Severe Live TV Buffering/Lag Issue on MXQ TV Box (so far only pausing fixes it) - wrxtasy - 2016-01-13 PVR Video Cache Settings will likely need to be adjusted along with the Kodi Video cache itself, you will have to experiment yourself: http://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.xml#pvr http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Modify_the_video_cache Just for info your device does not run Android TV. Its just the regular Android OS to avoid confusion. RE: Severe Live TV Buffering/Lag Issue on MXQ TV Box (so far only pausing fixes it) - Dr.Feelgood - 2016-05-23 (2016-01-12, 21:57)ChaosMageX Wrote: Well, here's a debug log: http://filebin.ca/2TEldlxeGPDB/kodi.2016-01-12-old01.log Hello, have you solved this problem? I have the exact same on a similar box with S905 http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=272258 Advancedsettings tweaks does not change anything. RE: Severe Live TV Buffering/Lag Issue on MXQ TV Box (so far only pausing fixes it) - wrxtasy - 2016-05-23 http://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.xml#pvr Code: <pvr> |