TV Channel Crashes

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I have a TVheadend server on a different raspberry pi, it has about 100 TV channels.

All of them but one plays nicely on OSMC, this one crashes immediately after tuning into it.

If I watch that channel from VLC or other app (PC and Mac as well) it plays nicely.

How can I track down the problem? Which logs would help?

I’m running the latest OSMC + Kodi 17.0 combo on a Raspberry PI 3b.

Thanks for the help.

This is shown in kodi.log:

12:24:46.335 T:1958454192 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: pvr://channels/tv/Minden csatorna/pvr.hts_495247780.pvr
12:24:46.336 T:1958454192 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
12:24:46.338 T:1410593776 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
12:24:46.505 T:1410593776 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer

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Suggest first to enable debug logging. Other than that figure out which codec that the channel is using.

3

Sorry, I forgot to post the link for the uploaded logs: http://paste.osmc.io/rogumaqawa

4

It seems to use the very same codec as all other similar channels except for one thing: it has a Mono Audio channel.
Could that be the problem?

5

You need to enable debug logging otherwise not much to see.
Suggest to enable debug logging, reboot, play channel, upload logs via SSH

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Sorry, I thought logging was enabled.
Here it is again: http://paste.osmc.io/uhejoqodeh
Gabor

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I have a link to try the stream: http://-/t/tvheadend/stream/channel/a4e1841d2f8040302241e6e4300ce4d9?ticket=87E6E340872A4CBCE871F0AFAF406C5E70102FBC

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Nothing that I can see in the log that would explain it. Maybe someone else can see something.

9

Thanks!

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@gkovacsp the url you posted requests a password so I can’t test it.
Are you able to record from the problematic channel and cause the same crash? If so then a sample file would be useful.

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A recorded file does not crash.

Please try osmc/osmc as a username/password for the above link.

Thanks!

12

Here is a link to an example recording: Dropbox - File Deleted

Which unfortunately does not crash.

13

Is it possible that the channel has too many streams in it (24)? There are many subtitle streams (16-18).

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I’ve played around with TVHeadend and figured out, that the problem is indeed the large number of Subtitle tracks. If I filter some of them out on the server side, then Kodi will play it nicely.

It is not a problem when recording to a file, because TVHeadend detects that there is no more stream space available and trims some of the subtitle streams.

It will work for me, but I guess this should be fixed in the Kodi player.

Thanks!

15

How are you able to play this stream through kodi?
I’m not succeeding in specifying the username/password, either through adding to end of url (&username=kodi&password=kodi) or when adding an IPTV network to tvheadend.

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In KODI I use TVHeadend’s PVR client for streaming.
The link I’ve given to you works from VLC

In case you have the PVR add-on installed I can share the TV server with you in a PM.

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The crash is in the pvr.hts addon, so not caused by kodi or osmc.
I did some minimal debugging and created an issue here:

This isn’t code I know about, so that’s probably as far as I can go, but hopefully a pvr.hts maintainer will be able to do something with the info provided.

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Thanks a lot!

19

Just noticed… If you are running a Pi3, are you aware that you are underclocking the CPU?

arm_freq=1000  
core_freq=500  
over_voltage=2  
sdram_freq=500
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That’s a great catch, thanks!