[henryperu77]

the m3u refresh all the time, witht the new url of the .ts files

[Milhouse]

Obviously I'm testing them wrong and have no idea what I'm doing, I'll give up then.

Edit: I'd originally downloaded the m3u and had been testing that. Testing with the m3u url in VLC still results in video and intermittent audio - lots of "lost" audio buffers according to the codec statistics dialog. There is frequent stuttering/buffering of video (20Mb/s connection).

[henryperu77]

ahh? are you being sarcastic? :O I really need some help

[Milhouse]

ahh? are you being sarcastic? :O I really need some help

No not really I don't use video ts streams so don't really know how they work!

[henryperu77]

you said its maybe a ffmpeg 2.4.1 problem..., it is possible to update it on raspbmc? and use the one included on kodi for windows..

[Milhouse]

OK I've had another go at this....

I created a file called "test.m3u" and pasted the url location of the first m3u (https://ott.totalplay.com.mx/TPHLSWeb/M3...40&f=.m3u8), so that the file contains just the url.

If I now play this file using all acceleration options (omx-h264 is shown in the Codec OSD) it plays absolutely fine in OpenELEC #1001 - continuous smooth streaming of audio and video.

[henryperu77]

So its a raspbmc problem :O

[miappa]

So its a raspbmc problem :O

Probably not.
I have tested this with Kodi on three different platforms (OSX, iOS and Raspbmc) and they all behave the same for me (plays ≈4 seconds of each).
It did behave somewhat better with VLC, but the sources doesn´t seem to be very good though.

I also tried wha Milhouse tested last (and I oly pasted the URL, nothing else) and it did NOT work for me on iOS and OSX (plays ≈4 seconds). Not at home so cannot test on Raspbmc now, but Im pretty sure it will behave the same.
All tested on latest nightly.

If anyone is interested, here is a debug log from OSX playing the m3u that henryperu77 provided, then my own test-m3u with only 1 URL in it: http://pastebin.com/8s6ygaRj

Anyway, I see the problem, but on several platforms... however I have no idea if the problem is the m3u´s, the sources or Kodi(?).

[fritsch]

Just out of curiosity, tested that on latest helix master on my linux system. Works like a charm no drops, perfectly fine, nothing. Looking at your logfiles I see some "asked for packet with nothing available" - it seems like a network issue on your side? Limited downstream or bad connection to the server? The average bitrate seems < 1 Mbit/s so not very likely. But as it happens on all your clients that are most likely connected via the same network?



Edit: Kept it running for 5 minutes in sum - nothing, all fine, though I did not like the content :-)

[miappa]

First I tested at home where I have 100/100MBit connection (very good I might add, no problems at all).
Everything but the Pi is wireless though, but I also have a very good router with 300Mbit wifi that very seldom gives me any trouble.

The second test (with the debug log) is from work where I have 10/10Mbit connection (fibre), still wifi though.

However, it does look like it starts buffering and then stops instead (I can see the buffering dialoge for half a second), so either way it seems to be a problem.
I would be very surprised if it was a network issue from my side, perhaps it´s a mirror/region problem with the sources?

[Milhouse]

(Maybe this needs it's own thread - although this will probably be my last post on this subject in this thread)

This is a debug log of OpenELEC #1001 playing the test.m3u, which is simply:

Code:

https://ott.totalplay.com.mx/TPHLSWeb/M3U8LiveFile?format=2&profile=313&lan=2&rows=40&f=.m3u8

I'm using a 2Mbs up/20Mbps down ADSL connection, wired to the Pi over CAT5.

Ignore the ffmpeg errors between 149.179169 and 185.995605 - I had "extract thumbs" enabled and Kodi was trying to extract nonsense from a file named xbmc.bin... grrr.

Navigate to the folder containing the .m3u: 221.269180
Playback commences: 229.665604

It works, and plays smoothly. There are however regular ffmpeg debug messages complaining about lack of global network initialization and RBSP data - they seem to correspond with each new ts but don't affect playback, at least not for now...

Code:

08:24:49 383.761566 T:2874143824   DEBUG: ffmpeg[AB4FF450]: [hls,applehttp] HLS request for url 'http://200.76.77.237:80/LIVE/H01/CANAL435/PROFILE03-322/1102-20141002T022122.ts', offset 0, playlist 0
08:24:49 383.762054 T:2874143824   DEBUG: ffmpeg[AB4FF450]: Using network protocols without global network initialization. Please use avformat_network_init(), this will become mandatory later.
08:24:49 384.257172 T:2874143824   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 1 times.
08:24:49 384.257355 T:2874143824   DEBUG: ffmpeg[AB4FF450]: [NULL] Current profile doesn't provide more RBSP data in PPS, skipping

[popcornmix]

I wonder if there's any difference in behaviour with how it is launched?
I launched with:

Code:

./play "https://ott.totalplay.com.mx/TPHLSWeb/M3U8LiveFile?format=2&profile=313&lan=2&rows=40&f=.m3u8"

The play script is here

And it played fine for me.

[Milhouse]

Here's a modified version of the play script that works on OpenELEC (and may still work on Raspbmc): http://sprunge.us/eZQO

diff:

Code:

--- a/play 2014-10-02 11:01:58.118474962 +0100
+++ b/play 2014-10-02 11:01:14.419323341 +0100
@@ -5,13 +5,15 @@
   local strlen=${#string}
   local encoded=""

-  for (( pos=0 ; pos<strlen ; pos++ )); do
+  pos=0
+  while [ $pos -lt $strlen ]; do
      c=${string:$pos:1}
      case "$c" in
         [-_.~a-zA-Z0-9] ) o="${c}" ;;
-        * )               printf -v o '%%%02x' "'$c"
+        * )               o="$(printf '%%%02x' "'${c}")" ;;
      esac
-     encoded+="${o}"
+     encoded="${encoded}${o}"
+     pos=$((pos+1))
   done
   echo "${encoded}"    # You can either set a return variable (FASTER)
   REPLY="${encoded}"   #+or echo the result (EASIER)... or both... :p

Using this script, the stream plays fine on OpenELEC #1001, same as in post #1466 along with repeated network/RBSP messages.

[henryperu77]

Milkhouse how i implement that play script on raspbmc?

[Milhouse]

Milkhouse how i implement that play script on raspbmc?

Code:

wget http://sprunge.us/eZQO -O ~/play && chmod +x ~/play

then

Code:

~/play "https://ott.totalplay.com.mx/TPHLSWeb/M3U8LiveFile?format=2&profile=313&lan=2&rows=40&f=.m3u8"