2019-04-24, 21:49
(2019-04-24, 19:17)emveepee Wrote: Your reports are inconsistent, yesterday your logs for choppy playback were using timeshifting. This variance indicates an outside factor like your network or signal is causing issues not the addon. I did not tell you real time was choppy it should be the most stable but I posted extended timeshift could be choppy without extra pre-buffering. I think you need to spend more time testing with the 3 live tv modes to determine if one works better for you.OK. Well, I thought I was being very careful about reporting my experience, evidently I read the advanced setting wrong for the NPVR addon when I made my previous post. I apologize for any misdirection.
The fact that Kodi on the server isn't choppy doesn't mean too much, since you aren't streaming over a network.
Martin
I just ran another test, and obtained a curious result: I set the advanced setting for NPVR in Kodi 18.2 back to "real-tiime". When I exited the advanced settings, I was advised that the addon needed to restart. I never got this message before when changing this option. I didn't know whether that meant it would restart itself or if I needed to exit Kodi and restart it, but I decided to exit Kodi and restart it. On restart, there was no choppiness in live TV! I confirmed that the time shifting option was set to "real-time". I can't explain this, and I'm way over my head technically, but in case my experiences might help others, I'll summarize them here:
- I was running Kodi 17.6 on a Windows 7 machine connected wirelessly to V4.1.1 of NextPVR running on a Windows 10 machine. The OTA antenna connects to this machine. Live TV was smooth on the Windows 7 machine. At this point, I was unaware of any timeshifting options in NPVR and did not know if timeshifting was enabled
- I updated to Kodi 18.2 last night. When I tried to watch live TV, I had choppiness. I reported that problem here and was told that, based on the logs, I was using timeshifting, and that I needed to experiment with other options, especially "real-time". (I thought I had been running "real-time" all along)
- This morning, I updated NPVR on my Windows 10 server to 4.2.4, then tried to watch live TV again on the Windows 7 machine running Kodi 18.2. The result was choppy video using the "real-time" option, but smooth video when the option was set to "timeshift". I reported that here again, and was advised that my reports were inconsistent and to keep testing
- Just now, I changed the option in NPVR running under Kodi 18.2 back to "real-time". I got a popup message advising that that addon needed to restart. On previous changes to this option, I did not get this message. I shut down Kodi then restarted it. When I watched live TV, it was smooth, with no choppiness. I just confirmed that the option is now indeed set to "real-time"
Thank you again for the support.
Ed
This time, there was no choppiness! I can't explain this. I had previously tried (today, not last night) "real time" and observed choppiness. I set the option to "timeshifting". The result was smooth live TV. Then -- just now -- I set the option back to "real-time" and got the message that a