[hlund]

Hi!

I've been using MythTV as my media center for at least 10 years, but as the DVB-support in Myth is kind of hard to configure and manage I'm converting my setup to Tvheadend with Kodi and pvr-hts as frontends.

Everything works nice and I love how easy Tvheadend is to manage and configure... and Kodi is perfect for my frontend needs!

However, I've run into one issue I really can't solve and understand!

When playing back a HD recording in Kodi through the pvr-hts addon it is really choppy, like only showing a couple of frames before halting every other second and no sound at all. If I pause for a while and let the buffer fill upp I can get maybe 5-10 seconds of stutter free playback.

Everything else works as it should:

- Playback of SD recordings works like a charm
- Live TV through the pvr-hts addon works for both HD and SD channels
- Playing back all kinds of recordings through Tvheadend's web interface and VLC works

I can even playback the HD recordings stutter free if I map the recordings folder in kodi videos and play them....

The cpu usage of both the backend and frontend are low when trying to play the recordings, and I have gigabit ethernet on both.

I really can't explain why the stuttering occurs! If I solve this problem my setup will be perfect!

Is there a difference in the protocol between tvheadend when streaming a recording instead of live tv?
Doeas anyone have an idea of what's causing my problems?

Best regards,
Hlund

[hlund]

I'm using the following versions:

Tvheadend: 4.1-1434~g4fdd552~wily
Kodi: 16.0~git20160205.0918-rc3-0wily
pvr-hts: 2.2.12-1~wily

The backend is a Ubuntu 15.10 server and the frontends are Intel NUC5-i3's with Ubuntu 15.10

/Hlund

[glenn 1990]

Is it possible for you to test with kodi 15 and tvh 4.08? Also debug logfiles of kodi could be helpful :-)

[hlund]

When trying to play a HD recording the kodi-log fills upp with this...

Code:

17:11:45 T:140384797701888 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
17:11:45 T:140384797701888  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 32
17:11:45 T:140384814487296 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
17:11:45 T:140384797701888  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 32
17:11:45 T:140384797701888  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 5 times.
17:11:45 T:140384797701888 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
17:11:46 T:140384814487296 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
17:11:46 T:140384797701888  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 32
17:11:46 T:140384797701888  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 4 times.

I could try previous versions of kodi and tvheadend, but i'd rather try to fix the problem in current versions first...