Frequent problems with LiveTV and HDHomerun Extend

[acoulson2000 0]

I would like to "cut the cord" and hope to use Emby with HDHomerun to provide a unified interface for both recorded and Live TV. So far, however, I'm not very impressed with the stability of Emby with LiveTV.

 

One of the problems that occurs frequently is that via the browser interface, I will click Play on a live tv channel and get nothing but the spinner. Looking at the HDHomerun console, there are no consumers of either tuner.

I'm attaching a sample screenshot and logs where this happened. I really hope the stability improves, as this would be a great solution, if it worked consistently. I should point out that I can VERY consistently view the same channel directly from HDHomerun, both through their native app and VLC.

 

I have HDHomerun set to Heavy transcoding and Emby is configured to use hardware encoding when possible.

 

Thanks in advance,

Andy

server-noresponse.zip

[Luke 42078]

Hi, was there an ffmpeg log, can you please attach that as well? thanks.

[acoulson2000 0]

There was no ffmpeg log in the %appdata%\Emby-Server\logs directory.

 

thx,

Andy

[acoulson2000 0]

Here's a different glitch..

 

After running fairly smoothly for about 28 minutes (although, again, not nearly as smoothly as I get via VLC - many more pauses and glitches), it suddenly started producing only loud period of buzzing as the audio. In this case, I have ffmpeg logs.

 

 

buzzing_audio.zip

[acoulson2000 0]

Any thoughts on this one?

[Luke 42078]

I'm not able to reproduce this but am continuing to test, thanks.

[acoulson2000 0]

Just wanted to say - the latest release of the server seems much more stable on live tv playback. Since my original post, I've come to realize that glitches in the local signal - causing "pixelization" and glitches in audio and video - would pretty much break the Emby stream. Now, it does cut out for a moment, but seems to recover much more reliably. I suspect a better HD antenna will help further.

[Luke 42078]

Thanks for the feedback !