Kodi Live TV - choppy video

Svartalf · Post time 2016-09-30 21:42:48

Well, new firmware roll out by blink, anyone can confirm that our issue with live tv has been solved? I'm away from my box for a 2 days ;)

Freelance · Post time 2016-09-30 23:09:18

Unfortunately this firmware does not fix the Live TV problems. Tested everything and the problem remains.
Live TV choose SW codecs instead of HW. My config is DVB-S2 Tvheadend LAN server. Same with Kodi Krypton also ...

Anyone knows of alternative Tvheadend client for Android?

snake2005 · Post time 2016-10-01 02:32:37

Edited by snake2005 at 2016-10-01 02:40

Freelance replied at 2016-09-30 23:09
Unfortunately this firmware does not fix the Live TV problems. Tested everything and the problem rem ...

They fixed this issue in the latest firmware but you should check in Kodi system>settings>video>acceleration if "allow hardware acceleration : amcodec " is ticked, if not just tick this option and it will use the proper hardware acceleration codecs for this box. (Don't forget to restart Kodi after)

An alternative app is TVHClient. (You need to have VLC player installed as well)

Svartalf · Post time 2016-10-01 03:07:50

Yes, the issue fixed!

Freelance · Post time 2016-10-02 16:12:59

After hardware reset and factory defaults with latest firmware, Kodi Live TV is working OK.
Still other stability issues remains, but hardware decoding is OK

Svartalf · Post time 2016-10-02 22:11:40

On new firmware box is freezes/rebooting randomly :(

paulo72 · Post time 2016-10-04 22:30:46

Freelance replied at 2016-09-30 20:33
Great Paolo, but what is your stream source?
Codecs are h264 for HD chanels, but the there is differ ...

Sorry for taking long. I was watching something last night on USTVNOW (HD @ 720P) I saw amc-h264. After I updated the last firmware I reset the box back to factory, reloaded my saved apk's from playstore and my kodi from a backup. Appears to work better. No green flashes and audio clear. I do modify my advanced settings (easy advance settings kodi addon). When I first turned on the box I noticed live tv was terrible but recorded tv was clear. I unplugged my modem for 5 minutes and restarted and everything fine. A lot of times live tv acts up it is actuals the modem or the line. Don't always blame the box... I'm just waiting for beelink to fix the dark scenes being too dark.