Posts by Glenn-1990

First of all, thanks for this great addon!

It's almost working perfecly but I bumped on a small issue.

Sometimes GUI sounds or other media sounds are broken.

Sound from from librespot is working everytime, but librespot seems to influence other media sources.

More in detail:

1) Sometimes a movie starts without sound, switching the audio stream fixes this.

2) Sometimes GUI sounds are malfunctioning after watching a movie.

This only happens with some movies on a remote server (so it might be a timing issue as the connection is more slowly as local files)

When a movie starts without sound, I get logs as:

CAESinkALSA::Initialize - failed to initialize device "@"

Looking into the librespot code, I discovered that the audio sink get suspended on onPlayBackEnded/Stopped/Started.

Kodi will try to initialize the audio device just after this, So I guess that the audio device isn't quite ready yet and fails to initialize.

Commenting out the suspendSink('1') line for the above 3 calls fixes the issue for me. I'm not an expert, so this lines might be needed for another reason I'm not aware of?

I can reproduce this issue on RPI and Wetek Hub.

Another question, is it possible to keep librespot running when other media is playing? So that other media will be interrupted when we start to stream to librespot.

Quote from CvH

okay if it is live then it is a bit different

if i convert your sample to mkv it works well at the WH (+hw) thats why i thought it is a recording problem - I ping kszaq

hmm, this PR is interesting and might solve the issue, only hard to test without compiling libreelec:
AML clock timing adjustments by peak3d · Pull Request #10887 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub

Quote from CvH

broken *ts recording like usual (idk if this is an Tvh problem because i saw vdr ... too with the same problems)
use mkv for recording (or convert) and your are fine

I guess you play a recording and not live tv (if i convert your sample to mkv everything plays fine, as *ts "we" have the same problem)

or you use ts-doctor - but better just use mkv

If I use MKV, the same thing happens, also with live tv. Do you have this problem only with recordings?

Other hardware decoders like vdpau/rpi omx/imx can handle these channels without problems, no matter if it is mkv, ts or live stream.

Hi first of all, thanks for making this awesome piece of software

There seems to be a problem with MPEG2 acceleration on my TV channels. The video freezes right after start, this does not happen when amlogic hardware acceleration is disabled.

unplayable sample:
Drama-Drama2016-11-0400-12.ts - Google Drive

debug log file: (file gets opened on line 2239)
kodi.log - Google Drive

If more info is needed, please let me know.

Can you both post your kodi log (enable debug logging)?
The problem might be related to this:
CPVRChannelGroup - Persist: SQL constraint violation · Issue #172 · kodi-pvr/pvr.hts · GitHub

Quote from popcornmix

I'm not really sure about cacheindvdplayer. There hasn't been any mention of it being required on OSMC which is using the same Kodi tree.
I don't have a PVR setup, and the cacheindvdplayer is gone in master.

Can anyone using PVR report if setting "<cacheindvdplayer>false</cacheindvdplayer>" makes live TV better/worse/same?

Yes, the buffer loops are gone after some initial tests (OMX), but I'm afraid that this setting might just hide some bug and maybe make MMAL worse.
Cacheindvdplay seems just to be another name for buffer live tv streams:
xbmc/DVDPlayer.cpp at Jarvis · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub

Also FernetMenta pointed out once that buffering for live tv is needed.
[pvr] fix high cpu usage when playing recordings, trac #16141 by Glenn-1990 · Pull Request #7905 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub

Isengard works perfectly without this setting btw.

Maybe one of the devs could answer this.

Do we need to set "<cacheindvdplayer>false</cacheindvdplayer>" when using OMXplayer?

I suppose only MMAL uses dvdplayer and chacheindvdplayer makes no sense for OMXplayer, so it should be disabled?

Indeed, OMX player is working again

[font="Open Sans, sans-serif, arial"]@Loggio I experience a buffer loop from time to time (until channel switch), Is that the kind of buffer issue you have?[/font]

Same problem here.

Is there a testbuild with this fix included somewhere?
MMAl for 1080i live tv rpi1 is a bit useless