[DaPooch]

I've only just enabled the debug log so I can't quite tell if the amount of time that can pass between playback fail is always the same, but generally I've noticed a 40-60 min timeout. I have remux turned on. Here's a dump of the debug log:

Code:

14/02/17 21:33:27.627    MaintenanceTimer> callback - complete
2014/02/17 21:35:07.473    GetNextGuid> meta chunk found, guid count: 938906, file offset: B8BC0000 (3,099,328,512)
2014/02/17 21:35:07.473    GetNextGuid> before offset guid: Guid: Null, len: 0, pad 0, sId: 0, WtvCnt: 0, isValid: False (guidIsEmpty)
2014/02/17 21:35:07.473    GetNextGuid> after  offset guid: Guid: TIMING_GUID, len: 88, pad 0, sId: 70, WtvCnt: 212428, isValid: True
2014/02/17 21:35:07.473    GetNextGuid> meta offset added to skip list, skip count: 2
2014/02/17 21:35:07.473    AdvanceDataRead> meta chunk at offset: B8BC0000 (3,099,328,512) skipped
2014/02/17 21:38:20.256    Received client request: 10.10.1.114|GetTimers
2014/02/17 21:38:20.256    Finished request GetTimers in 0.00s
2014/02/17 21:38:20.266    Received client request: 10.10.1.114|GetRecordings
2014/02/17 21:38:20.266    Finished request GetRecordings in 0.00s
2014/02/17 21:41:27.637    MaintenanceTimer> callback at 9:41 PM
2014/02/17 21:41:27.637    MaintenanceTimer> callback - complete
2014/02/17 21:43:21.104    Received client request: 10.10.1.114|GetTimers
2014/02/17 21:43:21.104    Finished request GetTimers in 0.00s
2014/02/17 21:43:21.104    Received client request: 10.10.1.114|GetRecordings
2014/02/17 21:43:21.104    Finished request GetRecordings in 0.00s
2014/02/17 21:44:50.500    GetNextGuid> end of stream is coming, next empty guid will terminate
2014/02/17 21:44:50.510    WtvToPesDemuxer::Parse> Guid header detects stream end
2014/02/17 21:44:50.510    Pass 'mux2ts':
2014/02/17 21:44:50.510     >  WtvToPesDemuxer::Parse> total guid headers processed: 1,246,042
2014/02/17 21:44:50.510     >  WtvToPesDemuxer::Parse> total data packets processed: 188,608
2014/02/17 21:44:50.629    Remux> ENDED, >>>>>>>>>> Run Time: 39.52 min <<<<<<<<<<

Doesn't appear to be a disk space issue. Playback will usually freeze for about 10s on my Rpi and then I can start it back up again for another 40-60 min before the problem repeats. Network issue? Buffer underrun? Maybe the HDHomerun is hiccuping at some point causing the stream remux to fail?

[scarecrow420]

Hi DaPooch,

To get some better context could you please upload a complete ServerWMC log to pastebin?

Have you tried running another XBMC remote client, or even a local XBMC client on the machine running ServerWMC, to see if it suffers the same fate as the Rpi client does?

[LSU Jonno]

I've noticed that this happens to me from time to time as well. It doesn't appear to be 100% repeatable.

When playback stops it doesn't crash XBMC or WMC backend so they've been running for a while (days). Would the logs be too big to go through? Should I try to exit WMC backend and XBMC and start them up fresh and try to replicate during the day so that I have shorter logs to post?

[krustyreturns]

Are you guys running a gotham nightly?

[LSU Jonno]

I am.

[krustyreturns]

See this bug report, consider trying the gotham it references for not having a playback problem and see if that corrects this problem. Let us know if it does.

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/14849#comment:2

[LSU Jonno]

Thanks for posting that. I read the bug report and what I am experiencing appears to line up with what they are saying. The complete live TV freeze is always preceded by "buffering" pauses that last a fraction of a second. Eventually, the frame freezes and I have to press "stop" to kill the stream then I can resume watching live TV. The best thing about this bug is that it doesn't require a restart of SWMC or XBMC.

Like I said before, this issue seems to be sporadic so I can't repeat it on command. Plus, the primary TV watcher in my home is my stay-at-home wife so usually I just get the data dump from her at the dinner table.

I'm a little worried what downgrading to a less recent Gotham build might do to my almost perfect setup, so I might downgrade to 12.3 on one of my boxes and see what happens.

[krustyreturns]

Actually the older gothams work fine, at least for me. I am really getting concerned that this problem won't get addressed before the gotham release.

One thing xbmc does very well is installing over another version. Even going back to an older rev of xbmc installs right over a new one with the settings left the same, the only trouble you can get into is with addons.

[LSU Jonno]

I am really getting concerned that this problem won't get addressed before the gotham release.

We haven't even hit beta yet. I bet we are 2+ months from release.