Hello,
I just installed the Amazon VOD plugin on my Pi 3B+ running the last version of OSMC, with everything up-to-date. Unfortunately, the player seems to be buffering all the time, the video and audio are jerky. CPU usage is very high.
Is there any way to optimize the settings somewhere ? I tried different changes with no luck.
Note that I can play perfectly fine highres videos from my NAS or in the Youtube app, so it’s not a wifi/bandwidth issue.
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Depending on the used skin you have to set the settings-level to standard or higher, in summary:
enable debug logging at settings->system->logging
reboot the OSMC device twice(!)
reproduce the issue
upload the log set (all configs and logs!) either using the Log Uploader method within the My OSMC menu in the GUI or the ssh method invoking command grab-logs -A
publish the provided URL from the log set upload, here
Thanks for your understanding. We hope that we can help you get up and running again shortly.
If yes i thinks it’s related to issue/trouble i have reported here:
@chewiiie you can check the version of CDM installed on your osmc setup ?
You can do it from inputstream.helper…
On my recent TEST i have also tryed to REMOVE completely the CDM (renamed the CDM folder) and after that i reboot my Raspberry.
At reboot i have (re)install it by inputstream.helper and i have obtain this:
CDM 4.10.2391.0 Extracted from Chrome OS FIEVEL 14268.67.0.
The trouble/issue reported here it’s very similar how i obtain whit my osmc setup
*EDIT *
On my side i have also tryed to restore a OLD version of CDM… the previous version 4.10.2252.0 but apparently it’s not help to resolve the issue.
Also…
On my recent test… on Inputstream Adaptive setting tryed to disable “Media Played” value:
If i select “Video” only all struttering/buffering issue it’s disappears.
If i select “Audio” only or “All” trouble and all content it’s unwatchable.
On my side i can’t test Amazon VOD content… but as already sayd the issue/trouble reported it’s very similar to my
I don’t know if it’s important but on “normal” log level i can see some errors also present on your debug log… look:
2022-01-17 17:19:37.541 T:2883 INFO <general>: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: plugin://plugin.video.dazn/?mode=play&title=The+Making+Of+%7C+Neymar+Jr%3A+Episodio+1+%E2%80%93+La+Gioia&id=kn7o2aezwinf10xukfhtoel1q¶ms=ArticleId%3Akn7o2aezwinf10xukfhtoel1q&verify_age=False
2022-01-17 17:19:37.545 T:3082 INFO <general>: Creating InputStream
2022-01-17 17:19:37.547 T:3082 INFO <general>: AddOnLog: inputstream.adaptive: SetVideoResolution (1920 x 1080)
2022-01-17 17:19:37.741 T:3082 INFO <general>: AddOnLog: inputstream.adaptive: Successfully parsed manifest file. #Periods: 1, #Streams in first period: 2, Type: VOD, Download speed: 6038562.8378 Bytes/s
2022-01-17 17:19:45.923 T:3082 INFO <general>: Creating Demuxer
2022-01-17 17:19:45.926 T:3082 INFO <general>: Opening stream: 1006 source: 256
2022-01-17 17:19:45.949 T:3082 INFO <general>: Creating video codec with codec id: 27
2022-01-17 17:19:45.950 T:3082 INFO <general>: CDVDVideoCodecDRMPRIME::Open - using decoder V4L2 mem2mem H.264 decoder wrapper
2022-01-17 17:19:45.984 T:3082 INFO <general>: Creating video thread
2022-01-17 17:19:45.984 T:3091 INFO <general>: running thread: video_thread
2022-01-17 17:19:45.986 T:3082 INFO <general>: Opening stream: 1008 source: 256
2022-01-17 17:19:46.009 T:3082 INFO <general>: Finding audio codec for: 86018
2022-01-17 17:19:46.013 T:3082 INFO <general>: CDVDAudioCodecFFmpeg::Open() Successful opened audio decoder aac
2022-01-17 17:19:46.013 T:3082 INFO <general>: Creating audio thread
2022-01-17 17:19:46.014 T:3093 INFO <general>: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process()
2022-01-17 17:19:46.463 T:3093 INFO <general>: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86018, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through)
2022-01-17 17:19:46.471 T:2896 INFO <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
2022-01-17 17:19:46.671 T:2896 INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "default"
2022-01-17 17:19:46.695 T:2896 INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "default"
2022-01-17 17:19:46.699 T:2896 INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats
2022-01-17 17:19:46.699 T:2896 INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S24NE3
2022-01-17 17:19:49.443 T:2895 WARNING <general>: ActiveAE - large audio sync error: -1029.619791
2022-01-17 17:19:49.573 T:2895 WARNING <general>: ActiveAE - large audio sync error: -1079.593801
2022-01-17 17:19:49.728 T:2895 WARNING <general>: ActiveAE - large audio sync error: -1230.616666
2022-01-17 17:19:49.948 T:2895 WARNING <general>: ActiveAE - large audio sync error: -1380.600052
2022-01-17 17:19:50.077 T:2895 WARNING <general>: ActiveAE - large audio sync error: -1429.602916
2022-01-17 17:19:50.230 T:2895 WARNING <general>: ActiveAE - large audio sync error: -1579.551926
2022-01-17 17:19:50.454 T:2895 WARNING <general>: ActiveAE - large audio sync error: -1729.599321
Thanks for your help @FaustoGSR
Indeed, it looks a lot like your issue.
I have Widevine 4.10.2391.0, just installed it with Amazon VOD a few days ago, so I don’t think reinstalling it will solve the problem.
I confirm that the video plays fine with Video only in the Inputstream Adaptive settings.
I tried adding the advancedsettings.xml file in .kodi/userdata/ and reboot to disable HTTP2 as mentionned in the link you provided, but it did not change anything.
Yeah… also on my Pi2 i have tryed to add this disablehttp2 and also for me it’s not help (now i left the option in the file but set it to false… i.e. activated like default setting).
I did not understand this statement… you said:
" I confirm that the video plays fine with Video only in the Inputstream Adaptive settings."
I thinks it’s changed somethings in some addons using CDM…somethings need to fix in the addons himself if you use it on a raspberry device…
What I meant is :
in Inputstream Adaptive settings, if you change Media from All to Video only, then the video plays perfectly fine, no buffering issues anymore. But you’re not getting the audio anymore if you do that.
So the issue seems to be related to the audio decoding maybe?
“INFO : CDVDAudioCodecFFmpeg::Open() Successful opened audio decoder aac”
I also experienced this issue on Live TV streams where the streams are just not watchable… What I found out is that it only happens for streams that are AAC encoded. The others work fine.
To say that my issue is on vero4k and not on pi but I’m starting to think this is more an issue related with OSMC (or maybe with the ffmpeg drivers). Also to add that, for me, this is not an issue on kodi running it on x86 and the Amazon 4k stick.
When I have the time, I want to try my setup on pi2 using both OSMC and maybe libreelec to see if there are any differences.
@nunojsa i have suspect, in my case, dazn have changed something on your streaming flux and that create some issue whit that specific hardware.
whit my bad knowledge about that can see whit another streams using widevine like mediaset play streaming… (livestream or all programs on demand) this issue it’s not reproducible.
in my case i don’t have a prime account to verify if works on my pi2…
I had the same problem with amazon prime VOD on RPi3 after I updated widevine.
After going back to widevine 4.10.2252.0 via the Inputstream Helper Plugin (don’t forget to reboot), the buffering and stuttering disappeared
Ha that’s good to hear !
Unfortunately, my Inputstream helper only offers me to revert to 4.10.1679.0, which may be too old because it won’t play anything after reboot.
How do I install Widevine 4.10.2252.0 ?
EDIT: found how, and it works !!! yay !!! Thank you @aLiEnHeAd
curl https://k.slyguy.xyz/.decryptmodules/widevine/4.10.2252.0-linux-armv7.so | sudo tee /home/osmc/.kodi/cdm/libwidevinecdm.so >/dev/null
From the SSH i have restored THAT widevine version suggested by “curl”… reboot Kodi on my Pi2 and try to open one event on DAZN and…
IT’S WORKS!!! ALL STRUTTERING issue it’s completely disappears…
And it’s very strange because in this days i have tryed so many times to restore that exact version of widevine (because by inputstream.helper i have 4 backup for this version) and every time i do this it’s not resolve this issue (i don’t know… problably it’s because it’s restored from a different chrome os image and the library himself maintain same version but inside it it’s little different ?).
For moment also for me this is a very great WORKAROUD…
For prevent some future update i backup this library also on my pc… and i have download the same file but copyed to a differnt name whit this:
curl https://k.slyguy.xyz/.decryptmodules/widevine/4.10.2252.0-linux-armv7.so | sudo tee /home/osmc/.kodi/cdm/libwidevinecdm.so.working >/dev/null
It appears that the stuttering issue is back again with the latest version of Widevine … using the tips above to downgrade to 2252.0 again works to restore the lack of stuttering. @sam_nazarko is there a more permanent solution?
