tvheadend player crashed LibreElec10

    Hi,

    I have an Rpi4 with the latest LE 10.0.1 and tvheadend server 4.3.1979

    I recorded a video, yesterday evening, and it all went well till I decided to start watching it (while it was still being recorded).

    This is how it went:

    Recording started at 21:30 and should have finished at 00:30

    Code
    Mar 09 21:09:30 LibreELEC tvheadend[9167]: dvr: "CLV-2022-03-09-21:10" on "Rai 3 HD" recorder starting

    At 22:10 or so I ssh'ed to LE to check some files and folders, and a few minutes later I also connected to the web interface of TVH because I was mistakenly recording twice the same video, so I stopped the automatic EPG recording and let the manual recording proceed. This all happened over WiFi, no issues

    At 22:44 I decided to play the video, so I sat in front on my TV, went to the LiveTV section of my LE, went to recordings, and played the file.

    Code
    2022-03-09 22:44:14.748 T:817 INFO <general>: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: pvr://recordings/tv/active/CLV-2022-03-09-21_10/CLV-2022-03-09-21%3a10 (1969), TV%20(Rai%203%20HD), 20220309_201000, 1367281094.pvr
2022-03-09 22:44:15.037 T:17827 INFO <general>: CDVDVideoCodecDRMPRIME::Open - using decoder V4L2 mem2mem H.264 decoder wrapper
2022-03-09 22:44:15.078 T:17828 INFO <general>: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86019, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through)
2022-03-09 22:44:21.079 T:817 INFO <general>: Display resolution ADJUST : 1920x1080 @ 50.000000 Hz (21) (w3ight: -1458166273442578432.000)

    Note that at that time I don't see any clear message from TVH, just the below (I was expecting to see the hello message from the TVH server):

    Code
    Mar 09 22:43:52 LibreELEC tvheadend[9167]: http: 127.0.0.1: HTTP/1.1 HEAD (2) /imagecache/524 -- 404
Mar 09 22:43:52 LibreELEC tvheadend[9167]: http: 127.0.0.1: HTTP/1.1 HEAD (2) /imagecache/525 -- 404
Mar 09 22:43:52 LibreELEC tvheadend[9167]: http: 127.0.0.1: HTTP/1.1 HEAD (2) /imagecache/529 -- 404
Mar 09 22:43:52 LibreELEC tvheadend[9167]: http: 127.0.0.1: HTTP/1.1 HEAD (2) /imagecache/528 -- 404
Mar 09 22:43:52 LibreELEC tvheadend[9167]: http: 127.0.0.1: HTTP/1.1 HEAD (2) /imagecache/344 -- 404
Mar 09 22:43:52 LibreELEC tvheadend[9167]: http: 127.0.0.1: HTTP/1.1 HEAD (2) /imagecache/527 -- 404
Mar 09 22:43:52 LibreELEC tvheadend[9167]: http: 127.0.0.1: HTTP/1.1 HEAD (2) /imagecache/74 -- 404
Mar 09 22:44:06 LibreELEC tvheadend[9167]: http: 127.0.0.1: HTTP/1.1 HEAD (2) /imagecache/462 -- 404
Mar 09 22:44:08 LibreELEC tvheadend[9167]: http: 127.0.0.1: HTTP/1.1 HEAD (2) /imagecache/462 -- 404

    It all went well until 22:59, when all of a sudden the video froze and I lost all kind of connections (connection to TVH and connection to the WiFi)

    About one minute before everything crashed, I do see a connection from the client to the server (I don't understand why, since I was watching the video since 22:43)

    So it looks like there was a connection and then kind of another one that made the entire system hang.

    WiFi went down for a couple of seconds

    Code
    Mar 09 22:59:54 LibreELEC wpa_supplicant[510]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=dc:39:6f:f2:32:9d reason=2
Mar 09 22:59:59 LibreELEC wpa_supplicant[510]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to dc:39:6f:f2:32:9d completed [id=0 id_str=]

    but nevertheless, I couldn't SSH LE anymore, and also NFS connection went down (I save the videos to my NAS) - note that I could access my NAS from all other systems, meaning my WiFi was perfectly working and I saved other things from other systems to that very same NAS exactly during that time

    At 00.43, system crashed. I had gone to sleep so I hadn't played with LE or with TVH since 23:15, more or less.

    System recovered by himself at 11:29 on the next day. My recording stopped at 23.09 (not at 00:30)

    Code
    2022-03-10 11:29:31.373 T:22867    INFO <general>: PVR Manager: Starting
2022-03-10 11:29:31.437 T:990      INFO <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: Async updates initialised
2022-03-10 11:29:31.712 T:22872    INFO <general>: PVR Manager: Started
    Code
    Mar 10 00:43:00 LibreELEC tvheadend[9167]: mpegts: too much queued table input data (over 2MB) for Sony CXD2880 #0 : DVB-T #0, discarding new
Mar 10 11:29:23 LibreELEC systemd[1]: service.tvheadend43.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
Mar 10 11:29:23 LibreELEC systemd[1]: service.tvheadend43.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Mar 10 11:29:25 LibreELEC systemd[1]: service.tvheadend43.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Mar 10 11:29:25 LibreELEC tvheadend[22817]: main: Log started
Mar 10 11:29:25 LibreELEC tvheadend[22817]: http: Starting HTTP server 0.0.0.0:9981
Mar 10 11:29:25 LibreELEC tvheadend[22817]: htsp: Starting HTSP server 0.0.0.0:9982

    It looks clear that as soon as I try to use the TVH Player, something breaks the system and everything collapses, but is there any other alternatives to play a recording?

    I tried with another Kodi I have on my FireTV but I got various issues (can't FFW, for instance), so actually I don't know how to proceed.

    I could just use the Rpi4 for the tvheadend server, but then I need some good players that can handle interlaced videos and .ts files that grow over time

    Thanks for helping!

    Luca

    I did many changes, to try to improve the situation:

    - I saw that the TVH Server had the pass stream set as default; I understood it should be set as htsp, so I changed that

    - I disabled samba and disabled avahi

    - I have removed many EPG updates not related to my country or providers (I just left OTA EPG)

    I recorded my TV program and this part has always worked well. The duration of the recording is 220 minutes, so if I had had network issues I would have seen them. Instead, it all went well: no network errors, good upload bitrate, no CPU spikes, used MEM is good.

    I have some "dropped in" errors, don't know what it is. This happens continuously, not only when I am recording.

    Then, however, as soon as I start watching it, or maybe some time after (or when I go back and forth quickly with FFWD or FRWD, kodi hangs: NFS stops working, TVH server crashes, connmand removes IP routes and IP addresses, WiFi goes down, and for about 10 minutes everything gets stuck. If I go to the system menu and try to go down from Network to Storage, Kodi hangs and the remote also stops working. I will try to monitor that part as well, as soon as it happens (in a couple of days, I think, so as soon as I have time to watch the recorded program)

    This only happens when I play a video, because every time I SSH, nothing happens: recording lasts for 220 minutes without issues. I changed many time the configuration of the TVH server with my browser and it all worked fine.

    I really don't know where to look at, since kodi fails right when I need it.

    WiFi is stable, I got just one disconnection (lasting 6 seconds) once in the last 24 hours

    Code
    Mar 31 04:53:11 LibreELEC wpa_supplicant[497]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=dc:39:6f: reason=2
Mar 31 04:53:17 LibreELEC wpa_supplicant[497]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to dc:39:6f: completed [id=0 id_str=]

    Note that during that time, TVH didn't notice any issues, no event is reported at 04:35 (I have activated debug=all in TVH server)

    Code
    2022-03-31 04:43:39.172 [   INFO]:epgdb: stored (size 490075)
2022-03-31 04:45:00.004 [  DEBUG]:epg: now/next 128803/122350 set on Rai Storia
2022-03-31 04:45:00.004 [  DEBUG]:epg: inform HTSP of now event change on Rai Storia
2022-03-31 04:45:00.004 [  DEBUG]:epg: arm channel timer @ 2022-03-31;05:40:00(+0200) for Rai Storia
2022-03-31 05:00:00.000 [  DEBUG]:epg: expire event 130648 (Tenn's: ATP 1000 Miami (diretta)) from Sky Sport Uno HD
2022-03-31 05:00:00.000 [  DEBUG]:epg: now/next 0/0 set on Sky Sport Uno HD
2022-03-31 05:00:00.000 [  DEBUG]:epg: inform HTSP of now event change on Sky Sport Uno HD

    I will keep you posted.

    I have just seen an interesting thing: my LibreELEC got disconnected from the network, BUT the events are strange:

    I see the first errors in the logs at 17:39:07, with NFS that cannot be reached - there is nothing before this

    Code
    Apr 01 17:39:07 LibreELEC kernel: nfs: server 192.168.1.120 not responding, still trying

    but I stop reporting data about my network at 17:35

    During the hole (I send the data to an external server, so you don't see any data when the WiFi is down, but I also stored them in the LibreELEC) I don't see any errors in the interface (which is strange): err_in and err_out always report 0.

    WiFi gets disconnected at 17:43:26 on the LibreELEC and at the same time I see a similar log in my router (it was the router to de-register the device)

    WiFi is reestablished at 17:43:32, just 6 seconds later.

    So it looks like there is a problem with the WiFi which is not detected by anyone until very late in some cases. This causes network drops and as soon as the WiFi is removed and re-added, it all works fine.

    Maybe I could force a disconnection if I see problems? But how?

    What I have seen is that there is a problem on the WiFi whenever I use it "heavily".

    For instance, doing an scp on my mac from my Rpi4 in order to download a video file from my LE server made the wifi crash when transfer rate was 18%. And there is nothing I can do, it will always fail.

    So I guess the problem is in the WiFi firmware

    Code
    Lucas-iMac:Movies luca$ scp [email protected]:/var/media/DVR/RegistrazioniTV/CLV/CLV2023-01-25.ts .
CLV2023-01-25.ts                                                                                                                                                                              18% 1448MB  28.9KB/s - stalled -client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe
scp: Connection closed