Problem on Kodi/OSMC with some streams

Anders Gustafsson

I thought that this was OK with 4.3, but apparently was I mistaken. It is one of those annoying errors where I am not sure where the fault lies. I think it might be Kodi, but the good people at the OSMC forums point the finger at you :)

This is what happens:

On some recorded streams, I cannot FF nor seek when viewing on Kodi/OSMC. The common issue seems to be that those streams are all recorded OTA from a Finnish transmitter. I can view them on a PC through the web interface just fine, but when viewing on Kodi/OSMC the following happens:

The progress bar is all the way to the right even at the start of the programme.
The start and stop times are bogus
I cannot seek into the stream by typing in a time
I can sometimes FF at 2x or 4x but no faster. If I try faster it just exits

If I stop watching in the middle, Kodi does not remember and let me resume the way it normally does

I guess you can all see why this is ever so slightlly annoying.

mpmc

I've seen this happen with ts recordings, but not mkv.

Anders Gustafsson

Yes, the files are .ts What is the difference? My stream file is set to "pass". Should I change it to "matroska"?

Edit:

There are so many things I do not know... Ask me anything about the inner workings of GPIB or the taxation system and payroll in Finland and I coulf probably provide an answer, but multimedia... sigh.. :)

Anyway, I had Stream profile: Pass, changed to Matroska and it creates .mkv files. Let's see if that makes a difference.

I assume that .ts is just the raw stream? Pretty much the same format as our old Toppy used? If that is the case, then the playback problems on Kodi would point to Kodi and not to Tvheadend as Tvheadend would probably not muck with the stream, just save to file?

Anyway, I tested recording the offending channel this way and I could indeed seek and ff just fine on Kodi. I guess there are no drawbacks using matroska over .ts?