PVR IPTV Simple Client VS Tvheadend HTSP Client (HTSP Streaming Skipping)

nunya business · 2017-08-29T01:24:24+00:00

Hi Guys!, I must say that I am throughly impressed with all of the good work completed around this project. You are all masters of your craft and I apprecia...

nunya business

To My Brother Mike Clarkstone,

I tried it from a M3u playlist on a windows machine VLC, works great. Also even on the Kodi Amazon Fire Stick with the TVH HTSP Client recordings playback just fine! Only live streaming seems to have the problem...

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To My Brother K Shea,

I think the issue is with the Kodi Fire Stick htsp stream profile in the TVH HTSP Client only. That's probably why yours is working flawlessly...

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To My Brother Rob Cameron,

Yeah I turned off deinterlacing and everything and the thing still sucks on the TVH HTSP Client. What I'm having a hard time on is why the PVR IPTV Simple Client is working well and the TVH HTSP Client is sucking...

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To All My Brothers!,

About to go into a hurricane with this setup... Any help you could provide would be much obliged!

mpmc

nunya business wrote:
> To My Brother Mike Clarkstone,
>
> I tried it from a M3u playlist on a windows machine VLC, works great. Also even on the Kodi Amazon Fire Stick with the TVH HTSP Client recordings playback just fine! Only live streaming seems to have the problem...
>
> ######################################################################################
>
> To My Brother K Shea,
>
> I think the issue is with the Kodi Fire Stick htsp stream profile in the TVH HTSP Client only. That's probably why yours is working flawlessly...
>
> ######################################################################################
>
> To My Brother Rob Cameron,
>
> Yeah I turned off deinterlacing and everything and the thing still sucks on the TVH HTSP Client. What I'm having a hard time on is why the PVR IPTV Simple Client is working well and the TVH HTSP Client is sucking...
>
> ######################################################################################
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> To All My Brothers!,
>

> About to go into a hurricane with this setup... Any help you could provide would be much obliged!

Some things to try:

* Turn off timeshift (in tvh)
* Disable the pre-tune prediction (in Kodi hts.pvr).
* Backup your config & give unstable a run, see if that shows the same issues.

DZMM Highlander

Apologies for piggybacking on this thread, but I'm having similar HTSP stutter issues streaming to my Mibox3 and my Fire TVs - streaming to windows devices is fine. I've been told there's a problem with Kodi and Android HTSP as the developer left the kodi team, and is maintaining SPMC which works fine but defeats my desire to have one app for my media.

@Robert Cameron thanks for posting your settings, but I don't have most of the options that you have - I think because I'm running a docker version (linuxserver.io)

How have other people got around this problem?

nunya business

Ok guys, I'm back after the hurricane! I was able to get through it with the IPTV Simple Client but HTSP wasn't worth much...

Any new updates I need to be aware of?

Em Smith

Your screenshot suggests 15Mb/s data rate.

Normally Kodi treats IPTV as an Internet stream so caches it/reads ahead so it can handle peaks/drops. So your data may be quite high when a ball is kicked and the camera is panning, but then low when it cuts to the static picture of a scoreboard. So by reading a little ahead it can handle the panning bit where it can't get the data fast enough across wifi, by averaging that data when the scoreboard is shown, and you don't notice the problem.

Whereas PVR (based on what I see) it thinks is local so has very limited caching so can't handle it as well. Modifying the Kodi advancedsettings.xml cache doesn't change things for me, but maybe a different version it will work for you. Search the Kodi wiki for advancedsettings.xml for where it is on your device.

Clearly your wifi should handle it, but reality is often different. I know my wifi performance tests show I can get very high throughput, but tv playback of HD proves it isn't always true.

If you can attach a keyboard/bluetooth keyboard to your Kodi device then pressing and holding Ctrl-Shift-O (letter O) during playback on Kodi shows you information about playback including buffer percentage. I used to see that buffer dropping to 0% and then stutter while it re-caches.

Try getting that info with IPTV and HTS and see if you see different buffering. That info also shows other information such as CPU usage.

Kodi 16 didn't have the problem since you could alter the cache for PVR. I don't know if Kodi 18 fixes it.

I don't think that stick has any usb so you can't attach a usb->Ethernet adapter. Only thing I can suggest, which I doubt will work, is having the router nearer the stick so the signal is a bit stronger.

nunya business

Alright peeps, been hitting this for weeks and I'm finally getting somewhere!!!

So tried TVHE HTSP PVR Client on the same firestick with CPU usage going through the roof. (This seemed to be the cause of the skipping.

Specs for the Skipping installation (100% CPU Utilization):
Amazon Fire Stick Gen 1
Kodi 17.5 (Krypton)

TVHE HTSP Client Ver 3.4.27

Specs for the Smooth Playback Installation (~50% CPU Utilization):
Amazon Fire Stick Gen 1
Kodi 18 (Leia)

TVHE HTSP Client Ver 4.2.4

So either "Leia" or TVHE PVR Client Ver "4.2.4" is the answer to the problem...

Quick question, How would I install the TVHE PVR Client ver. 4.2.4 on Krypton? Repository?

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