Live TV not playing on Kodi

[LuxTux 12]

Hello,

im trying to watch live tv via the emby-next-gen addon (6.2.15). Unfortunately this fails. When I select a channel on kodi (19.4), i get a spinning wheel, followed by the error message: One or more items failed to play. Check the log for more information about this message.

when i try and play the same channel on my android phone with the emby app it plays fine. I even installed the kodi app on my phone to see if the behaviour would be different but I get the same error. the same error happens when I install the emby-next-gen addon from the emby beta repository.

I have included the debug kodi log and the debug emby server log. i start the stream at 22:49. sorry i did not find the option in emby-next-gen addon to enable debug logging

embyserver-63790325406.txt kodi.log

[quickmic 1556]

There is no option for debug logging for emby plugin. I uses the the setting from Kodi, that's fine.

I see you use hls streams for live TV. SO the live TV seems not coming from a DVR. Looks like you use a internet streams, right? Is this a public m3u playlist you added to Emby server. Can you send me a link for further testing?

[LuxTux 12]

Correct this is m3u list and an xml epg from an internet service. I generated a m3u list for you. ill send it to you via DM.

[quickmic 1556]

Thank you, I'll perform some tests with the playlist. Very sure the issue is related to hls streams which is supported by the plugin but I think not for live TV at the moment.

[LuxTux 12]

you mean the live tv on the emby server? weird as it does play in my browser or the emby app without any hickups as you can see in the attached log from the server

embyserver-63790362885.txt

[quickmic 1556]

4 minutes ago, LuxTux said:

you mean the live tv on the emby server? weird as it does play in my browser or the emby app without any hickups as you can see in the attached log from the server

embyserver-63790362885.txt 138.73 kB · 0 downloads

No, I mean the live TV function on Kodi (plugin). Sure it works on Emby server and the emby app, but the Kodi plugin obviously not at the moment (for live TV).

I wanted to say, hls also works with Kodi plugin but NOT for Kodi plugin AND Live TV.

e.g. hls is used by Kodi plugin for transencoding functionality and there it works. So it's not a general hls issue, it's just just an issue when you play hls in combination with Kodi Live TV.

 

 

Edited June 9, 2022 by quickmic

[LuxTux 12]

Ok i understand. I can also confirm your theory. when i switch the output of my m3u to MPEG-TS(.ts) it works via the kodi emby-next-gen app.

[quickmic 1556]

Try latest 7.x version, LiveTV should work in this version.

[LuxTux 12]

I just downloaded the latest 7.x build and I can confirm that the HLS streams now work. Thank you for your amazing work.

I see that the IPTV simple implementation works much better on this version. The initial synchronisation of the tv series and movies was also a lot faster