IPTV-Channel freezes

Hartmut Birsner

I succeeded in adding some iptv-channls to tvh 4.1-2286, for example: http://iptvfree1.com:6969/live/8/www.iptvrestream.net/944.ts (adding as mux). But the stream freezes after a short while. Is it possible to prevent this? Do I need to change configuration settings? If yes, how?

asnail boy1

Hi,

I have the exact same issue, and it seems people are having the same issue on other forums.

my dvbs channels all work fine in tvheadend and forwarded to Kodi

but - iptv channels i add always freeze after about 30seconds to 2 mins... it just stops getting data and there is nothng i can see in the log

If i watch the m3u in vlc it is fine.. although, if i generate the m3u from tvheadend it has the same problem..

some others with the issue:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=262069 http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=270468

Mono Polimorph

Hi,

Remember you are using HTTP as transport protocol. Your behaviour is common when you don't have sufficient bandwith, or when you have several lost packets and retransmissions, or when the server is busy, or when a congestion appears in the network.

I suggest to change to another transport protocol, like RTSP/UDP (unreliable) or HLS (reliable).

asnail boy1

Thanks for the reply.

the iptv server had mpegts as output

i had it changed to hls

works fine playing the iptv m3u file in vlc
but tvheadend cannot play or forward or scan the channels - although it creates the muxes

when i play a channel it jsut shows a channel icon..

is this what you meant?

asnail boy1

any help regarding this?

thanks

Stuart Sangster

I have the same problem.

asnail boy1

my url looks like this

http://xxxxxxv:8000/get.php?username=xxxxxx&password=xxxxx&type=m3u&output=mpegts

i can also put hls on the end instead of mpegts, but then tvheadend won't play

the mux looks like this -

http://xxxxx:8000/live/xxxxx/xxxx/231.ts

i wonder if the expert settings in mux edit menu would do anything

Stuart Sangster

I only need to have tvheadend service enabled, then any streams through any add on I open freeze.
Disable tvheadend service, and all are fine again.

asnail boy1

that's a different issue to me.

just the stream freezes for me.

Vladimir Gv

I think tvheadend still doesn't manage the iptv connections well. You can try this additional tool, it works quite nice with tvh: https://github.com/Jalle19/node-ffmpeg-mpegts-proxy

Stuart Sangster

Not sure how to use this.
Asnail boy1..... if you stream from any other add Ons (for example exodus), are your streams stable?

asnail boy1

thanks Vlad, i will look

@stuart - yes works fine with vlc

Stuart Sangster

Sorry asnail boy1, I meant another add on in kodi.
Are you using kodi?

Josh Flower

Good Afetrnoon to all!
How solved it?