2016-12-06, 01:25
I opened a thread on silicondust's forum, but I'd like to pose my question again here since the sillicondust thread hasn't gotten much traction.
I have an hdhomerun prime and use Kodi as my primary client (on windows and os x). Recently, some channels have started having playback issues, and I'm really at a loss to figure out why. I know that I've upgraded firmware recently, but I'm not even certain if that was the trigger. Everything was working pretty well up until a few weeks ago (maybe more, we'd been away and haven't had the tv on much before that). My hdhomerun is currently running firmware 20161117.
Here's what the playback issue looks like: playback for certain channels starts smoothly and continues for a few seconds (~5) before becoming pixelated/distorted and then freezing for a second or two. It continues playing short bits of extremely distorted video and audio. When using one of my kodi clients, I can see a message every second or so saying that its buffering. Pausing the stream and resuming after waiting several seconds does not restore normal playback either. The problem only seems to affect some of my HD channels, but not all, and none of the sd channels appear to be affected.
To try and troubleshoot, I picked one of the problem channels and tried it on several different clients on different computers - Kodi on windows/os x, the hdhomerun app on windows/os x, an xbox one using the hdhomerun app, vlc on windows/os x, hdhomerun dms source on my samsung tv. The mac is unable to play the channel in Kodi (neither wmc nor hdhomerun pvr backends). The xbox and tv are also unable to play back the channel. The windows machine, however, is able to play the channel using WMC, but not Kodi. On the windows or os x, Kodi is able to play back the recording of the problem channel smoothly (recorded with WMC).
I'm out of ideas at this point! As I mentioned, I didn't have any issue playing this channel (or any of the sevaral other affected channels) in the past (using kodi). Any help you could give would be very much appreciated!
I have an hdhomerun prime and use Kodi as my primary client (on windows and os x). Recently, some channels have started having playback issues, and I'm really at a loss to figure out why. I know that I've upgraded firmware recently, but I'm not even certain if that was the trigger. Everything was working pretty well up until a few weeks ago (maybe more, we'd been away and haven't had the tv on much before that). My hdhomerun is currently running firmware 20161117.
Here's what the playback issue looks like: playback for certain channels starts smoothly and continues for a few seconds (~5) before becoming pixelated/distorted and then freezing for a second or two. It continues playing short bits of extremely distorted video and audio. When using one of my kodi clients, I can see a message every second or so saying that its buffering. Pausing the stream and resuming after waiting several seconds does not restore normal playback either. The problem only seems to affect some of my HD channels, but not all, and none of the sd channels appear to be affected.
To try and troubleshoot, I picked one of the problem channels and tried it on several different clients on different computers - Kodi on windows/os x, the hdhomerun app on windows/os x, an xbox one using the hdhomerun app, vlc on windows/os x, hdhomerun dms source on my samsung tv. The mac is unable to play the channel in Kodi (neither wmc nor hdhomerun pvr backends). The xbox and tv are also unable to play back the channel. The windows machine, however, is able to play the channel using WMC, but not Kodi. On the windows or os x, Kodi is able to play back the recording of the problem channel smoothly (recorded with WMC).
I'm out of ideas at this point! As I mentioned, I didn't have any issue playing this channel (or any of the sevaral other affected channels) in the past (using kodi). Any help you could give would be very much appreciated!
