Linux Kodi17.3 on Manjaro - Audio only with VNSI client. No video appears
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Hello Folks.

I encountered a problem setting up my kodi vnsi combo at home. I have one NUC connected to my TV running a combo of

Manjaro Linux
Kodi 17.3
aur/kodi-addon-pvr-vdr-vnsi 2.6.17-1


Until recently the VNSI server was running on an external Ubuntu machine which is - unfortunately - out of service now. So I added the Geniatec T230C DVB-T2 stick (+firmware files) to the manjaro box above and installed:

aur/vdr-vnsiserver 2:1.5.2-1

After making all necessary config changes, I am able to select my channels in Kodi, but I only get the audio signal, no video. Funny thing is that I can access the vdr-streamdev outside of kodi by VLC directly and happily watch all channels with audio and video. Therefore I guess, there is some incompatibility between the vnsiserver and the addon in Kodi that I am using? Any suggestions what I should do on my platform? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is the system-log of vdr starting and an unsuccessful connection-try:
Code:
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] VDR version 2.2.0 started          
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] switched to user 'vdr'              
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] codeset is 'UTF-8' - known          
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] override character table is 'ISO-8859-15'                                                                          
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-streamdev-client.so.2.2.0                                              
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-streamdev-server.so.2.2.0                                              
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-vnsiserver.so.2.2.0                                                    
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] loading /var/lib/vdr/setup.conf    
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] loading /var/lib/vdr/sources.conf  
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] loading /var/lib/vdr/diseqc.conf    
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] loading /var/lib/vdr/scr.conf      
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] loading /var/lib/vdr/channels.conf  
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] loading /var/lib/vdr/timers.conf    
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] loading /var/lib/vdr/svdrphosts.conf                                                                                
Aug  5 19:04:01 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] loading /var/lib/vdr/keymacros.conf
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] DVB API version is 0x050A (VDR was built with 0x050A)                                                              
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] frontend 0/0 provides DVB-T,DVB-T2,DVB-C with QPSK,QAM16,QAM32,QAM64,QAM128,QAM256 ("Silicon Labs Si2168")          
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] found 1 DVB device                  
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] initializing plugin: streamdev-client (0.6.1-git): VTP Streaming Client                                            
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] initializing plugin: streamdev-server (0.6.1-git): VDR Streaming Server                                            
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] initializing plugin: vnsiserver (1.5.2): VDR-Network-Streaming-Interface (VNSI) Server                              
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] setting primary device to 1        
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] device 1 has no MPEG decoder        
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] SVDRP listening on port 6419        
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] setting current skin to "lcars"    
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] loading /var/lib/vdr/themes/lcars-default.theme                                                                    
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] starting plugin: streamdev-client  
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] starting plugin: streamdev-server  
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] loading /var/lib/vdr/plugins/streamdev-server/streamdevhosts.conf                                                  
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] starting plugin: vnsiserver        
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] VNSI: Starting vnsi server at port=34890                                                                            
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7008] Streamdev: Listening (VTP) on port 2004                                                                            
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7008] Streamdev: Listening (HTTP) on port 3000                                                                            
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] VNSI: VNSI Server started          
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] VNSI: Channel streaming timeout: 10 seconds                                                                        
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7000] switching to channel 5 (ZDF HD)    
Aug  5 19:04:02 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7010] VNSI: Requesting clients to reload channel list                                                                    
Aug  5 19:04:38 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7009] loading /var/lib/vdr/plugins/vnsiserver/allowed_hosts.conf                                                          
Aug  5 19:04:38 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7009] VNSI: Client with ID 0 connected: 192.168.1.58:42180                                                                
Aug  5 19:04:38 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7029] VNSI: Welcome client 'XBMC Media Center' with protocol version '10'                                                
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7009] loading /var/lib/vdr/plugins/vnsiserver/allowed_hosts.conf                                                          
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7009] VNSI: Client with ID 1 connected: 192.168.1.58:42198                                                                
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7032] VNSI: Welcome client 'XBMC Media Center' with protocol version '10'                                                
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7032] VNSI: LiveStreamer::Close - close  
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7032] VNSI: close video input ...        
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7032] VNSI: Successfully found following device: 0x9dac752960 (1) for receiving, priority=0                              
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7032] VNSI: Dummy receiver (0x7f3620003950) activated                                                                    
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7032] VNSI: activate live receiver: 1    
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7032] VNSI: Successfully switched to channel 5 - ZDF HD                                                                  
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7032] VNSI: Started streaming of channel ZDF HD (timeout 10 seconds)                                                      
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7035] VNSI: Created stream for pid=2120 and type=3                                                                        
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7035] VNSI: Created stream for pid=2121 and type=3                                                                        
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7035] VNSI: Created stream for pid=2131 and type=10                                                                      
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7035] VNSI: Created stream for pid=2130 and type=12                                                                      
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7035] VNSI: Audio stream change, pid: 2120, channels: 2, samplerate: 48000                                                
Aug  5 19:04:42 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7035] VNSI: Audio stream change, pid: 2121, channels: 2, samplerate: 48000                                                
Aug  5 19:04:47 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7035] VNSI: exit streamer thread          
Aug  5 19:04:47 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7032] VNSI: LiveStreamer::Close - close  
Aug  5 19:04:47 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7032] VNSI: close video input ...        
Aug  5 19:04:47 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7032] VNSI: activate live receiver: 0    
Aug  5 19:04:47 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7032] VNSI: Dummy receiver (0x7f3620003950) deactivated                                                                  
Aug  5 19:04:47 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7032] VNSI: close video input ...        
Aug  5 19:04:47 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7032] VNSI: cxSocket::read(fd=16): eof, connection closed                                                                
Aug  5 19:04:47 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7010] VNSI: Client with ID 1 seems to be disconnected, removing from client list                                          
Aug  5 19:04:48 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7029] VNSI: cxSocket::read(fd=15): eof, connection closed                                                                
Aug  5 19:04:49 shakuras vdr[7000]: [7010] VNSI: Client with ID 0 seems to be disconnected, removing from client list
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