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AllviewTV
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A few weeks ago the m3u tuner was working perfect. No buffereing, no freezing and channels loaded with no issues etc. A few days ago the channels will load then play for 5 seconds and freeze then buffer like crazy. I Go off the channel go off live TV and go back on it and none of the channels load at all. Just get 'unable to tune channel' or messages along them lines. Restart the server and it will come on but exactly the same as before. Its the same m3u and I've tested it with VLC and perfect player and it works perfect. Anyone got any ideas this is driving me crazy now

AllviewTV
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I've attached the logs for you. I'm using the latest beta server but have tried stable as well and still have the same issues.

 

Added VPS specs below if thats any help

 

VPS Specs

Windows Server 2012 R2

5 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2680 (8-cores per processor)

8GB RAM

1gbps upload and download

EmbyLog.txt

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It is kinda hard to read that log due to its formatting (no line breaks) but it doesn't appear that transcoding was able to start at all due to errors with the source...

AllviewTV
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Ive got direct stream live tv enabled and output is mpegts whuch was working pergect a week or so ago. Ive tried hls as well and it just does the same thing

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Are you sure that ffmpeg log was from any form of successful playback?  Really didn't look like it.

 

From what app are you playing?  Have you tried the web app?

 

Perhaps Luke can spot something in that log...

AllviewTV
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That wasn't a successful playback. I no longer have the logs from a successful playback.

AllviewTV
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I'm using Nvidia Sheild TV as my client and I have a couple of Firesticks on the server as well which are having the same issue. I'll try the web app now

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This is the log from my phone web player

 

Was that good playback or was there a problem with it?

AllviewTV
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It seemed ok as far as I remember. I'll do it again tonight when I get home

AllviewTV
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Just ran it on my phone again and playback is much better. Do you think it could be the abdroid TV app not natively supporting the stream type?. Ive tried hls output as well which seems to use remux or transcode rather than direct stream or direct play

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Can you provide an ffmpeg log from android tv playback? I'd like to compare that to the one from the web app session. thanks.

AllviewTV
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Yeah. I'll do it asap

AllviewTV
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I've submitted the logs through debug options on android TV app

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That's not the ffmpeg log. You would get that one from the server.

AllviewTV
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This is the only one I can find. I have ran the android TV app for about 5 minutes on a few different channels but this is the latest log showing

Log (2).txt

Edited by AllviewTV
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That is doing a straight stream copy of both video and audio but not going fast enough for playback.

 

Other than a problem at the source or an extremely under-powered server or something interfering with the traffic between the source and server, I don't see why it wouldn't be able to deliver the content at real speed...

 

Edit: I suppose it could be a hardware bottleneck or issue as well - like a slow connection to the transcoding temporary folder or malfunctioning hard drive.  If it is an SSD, we had a recent report of someone having performance issues when write-caching was disabled on it and also of Windows Defender trying to scan the stream in real time and interfering.

AllviewTV
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I couldnt change write-caching because the VPS wouldnt let me but I've disabled windows defender. I'll give it a go now

AllviewTV
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Surely 8gb RAM and 5 x Intel Xeon Processor E5-2680 8-core should be able to handle it

AllviewTV
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Just a quick update live TV is still freezing / jumping but when I use 'enternal Player' option and like perfect player it runs with no issues whatsoever its not froze or jumped once. Do you think it could be the built in player emby uses?

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Using the external player may also be causing a full transcode.

 

Did you try using the MPV option in the app?

AllviewTV
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I've checked on the dashboard when using external and it says 'direct play' when I'm watching a stream. Yeah I've tried MPV as still crashes

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I've checked on the dashboard when using external and it says 'direct play' when I'm watching a stream. Yeah I've tried MPV as still crashes

 

Crashes?  When did we start talking about crashing?

AllviewTV
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I meant freezes

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