Im using
- OSMC Pre-release [TESTING] OSMC images for Debian Stretch
- TVheadend (on the Vero 4k)
- TVHeadend HTSP PVR Client
- local USB HDD storage for recording/timeshifting
- DVB-C (Unitymedia NRW, Germany)
and all runs very well including timeshift.
If you’re recording/timeshifting to a NAS, think about you’re creating 3 streams with it: One coming from the TVheadend server, one writing the timeshift to the NAS and another one reading timeshift from the NAS … and that with a 100 Mbit/s Ethernet interface of the Vero 4k. That could start to saturate the available bandwidth of the Vero 4K.
In addition some OSMC settings which seem to be important (to me):
- Settings → Live TV → Playback → Fallback Frequence = 50 Hz (all DVB-C channels here are in 50 Hz)
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Settings → Player → Video
-Adjust Display Refresh Rate = On Start/Stop (if set to ALWAYS the screensaver will not work anymore playing music)
-Sync Playback to Display = OFF (ON would deactivate audio passthrough)
-Allow Hardware Acceleration - amcodec = ON (default)
-Accelerate MPEG2 = always (default)
-Accelerate MPEG4 = HD and up (default)
-Accelerate H264 = always (default)
To make it more sick, with this configuration and used add-on setup of TVheadend and Tvheadend HTSP Client (PVR), sometimes video stutter starts if I DEACTIVATE the hardware acceleration (which also is more logical to me) but I haven’t invested time to find out what are the circumstances for this behaviour.