stream settings for KODI

Anonymous

I am running tvheadend unstable on ubuntu 14.04 into an amazon fire tv box using KODI pvr add on. I am in the US, so ATSC signal with mpeg2 video.

I have 3 choices in tvheadend for passing the stream to clients- pass, matroska, and HTSP. Neither Matroska nor pass work with KODI, it does nothing when I choose a show in the EPG when either of these is the only stream enabled. HTSP works, but I wanted to try out the other 2 to see which works best. I swear they both worked last week, also.

Is my memory wrong and only htsp works for kodi?

Thanks.

Guillaume DC

If I'm not wrong:

HTSP works only with HTS pvr addon. and HTS addon works only with HTSP.

you can use pass/mkv, for exemple with IPTV Simple client pvr addon (HTTP stream)

Jonathan Thomson

Kodi does support profiles other than HTSP - I use Kodi (16.2) on a Fire TV and am running TVHeadend built from GIT and travel a lot (so have varying degrees of network access) - to help me with this issue, I have set up profiles in TVH which allow me to select a quality profile based on the speed on the network I have access to.

Here's an example of my "crappy wifi" profile which works with Kodi;

+*Parameters:*+
Profile name: kodi.remote
Default priority: Normal
Force priority: 0
Timeout (sec) (0=infinite): 5
Restart on error: TRUE
Continue even if descrambling fails: TRUE
Preferred service video type: None

Container: Matroska (mkv)/av-lib

+*Transcoding:*+
Resolution (height): 576
Channels: Stereo
Language: English (eng)
Video codec: libx264: libx264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
Video codec preset: veryfast: h264 / h265 / qsv(h264)
Video bitrate (kb/s) (0=auto): 750
Audio codec: aac: AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
Audio bitrate (kb/s) (0=auto): 64

Subtitle codec: Copy codec type

Hope this helps :)