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I am using Kodi 18.9 on desktop MacPro running Catalina. IPTV simple client cannot get m3u channels. I only get this message: "PVRMangager is starting up:0%." This messag will stay forever but no channel list is being downloaded. I cannot find out what the problem is.
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Can you post a full debug log?
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Instructions in my signature
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2021-02-26, 17:50
(This post was last modified: 2021-02-26, 17:52 by phunkyfish.)
Next time please use the paste site for the log file or at least try it first.
22mb appears to be insanely huge for an M3U file. I’ve never seen a file that big. I would question it being from a reliable source.
Can you try taking the first 100 channels and put them in a separate file and see if that works?
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Thanks for your quick reply. I tried to cut down the m3u to a few hundred channels and it goes indeed very quick. The reason for the large file is due to the very large amount of channels. It is a very good source, so I want to keep them all.
I understand if this is just something I have to live with if I want a provider with this many channels. But if by some magic trick this can be improved I would be very happy.
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2021-02-27, 00:35
(This post was last modified: 2021-02-27, 00:36 by phunkyfish.)
But there is no way you can watch 100,000 channels. It’s completely impractical. You could try specifying the groups you need in a custom config file and then it would only use those.
BTW, that was added as a feature in the latest version on kodi 19
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2021-02-27, 12:56
(This post was last modified: 2021-02-27, 12:57 by matthuisman.)
IPTV starts here:
2021-02-26 11:53:48.208 T:3180 DEBUG <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr.iptvsimple - LoadPlayList - M3U line read: '#EXTM3U'
IPTV finishes here:
2021-02-26 11:54:13.335 T:3236 DEBUG <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr.iptvsimple - GetChannels - channels available '98926', radio = 0
(less than a minute)
But there huge delays between the next few logs:
But to me, that looks like it's gone to sleep / screensaver?
021-02-26 11:56:43.831 T:3149 DEBUG <general>: Loading: /data/user/0/org.xbmc.kodi/cache/lib/libscreensaver.matrixtrails.so
2021-02-26 12:15:22.018 T:3902 DEBUG <general>: GetAlbumsByWhereJSON query: SELECT albumview.idAlbum, strAlbum, strArtists FROM albumview WHERE albumview.strReleaseType = 'album' ORDER BY RANDOM() DESC LIMIT 3
2021-02-26 12:15:22.019 T:3902 DEBUG <general>: GetAlbumsByWhereJSON - query took 1 ms
2021-02-26 12:42:50.416 T:3184 DEBUG <general>: CRepositoryUpdater: running scheduled update
Can you PM me the url of the playlist?
I just want to try it and see whats happening. not actually interested in the channels
Have you tried it without EPG to see if much faster?