IPTV consistently freezing - comes back if channel changed

[RogerTheTodger]

When I'm watching IPTV channels I've noticed the picture will freeze after about 30 to 60 minutes. The channel being watched freezes and doesn't come back unless I change channel and back again. The stream will then work flawlessly again for a similar period of time. The box itself doesn't seem to crash and there are no crash logs present. The fact that the stream is still there and works right away when I flick channels leads me to believe this could be a bug rather than loss of network connectivity. My IPTV service uses the Vivid plugin and I've experienced this issue on both Vix images V5.0.0.25 and .26. The upgrade to v5.25 was a clean flash. Any ideas?

[Andy_Hazza]

Change all your IPTV channels from stream type (4097) which by default is set to IPTV and change to DVB. You will need to use a program called E-Channelizer on your computer (Windows).


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[RogerTheTodger]

Thanks Andy, curious to know what the thinking is behind changing the stream type to DVB?

[Andy_Hazza]

Thanks Andy, curious to know what the thinking is behind changing the stream type to DVB?

Stops the freezing and any audio sync issues.


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[RogerTheTodger]

Gave E-Channelizer a whirl and turns out all my streams are already set to DVB. Must be something else going on.

[RogerTheTodger]

Still experiencing this I've tried different images, routers, settings and nothing will shift it. The box is wired ethernet to 39Mbps fibre and the Internet otherwise works fine when it happens, speed test good. I doubt it's the provider because the stream is still there if you zap channels. And my box has plenty of cache, not running slow or anything. It's as though it briefly loses the stream, but can't automatically reconnect again for some reason. Anyone else seen this?

[Andy_Hazza]

Still experiencing this I've tried different images, routers, settings and nothing will shift it. The box is wired ethernet to 39Mbps fibre and the Internet otherwise works fine when it happens, speed test good. I doubt it's the provider because the stream is still there if you zap channels. And my box has plenty of cache, not running slow or anything. It's as though it briefly loses the stream, but can't automatically reconnect again for some reason. Anyone else seen this?

Sounds like a poor supplier to me.


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[JohnNW]

Seems to be a common problem. Several friends suffer from the same thing with different STBs and different suppliers. Nothing wrong with the supplier and I have a 10Mbit connection over fibre (can't get any faster here yet). The speed is constant. Checking with the router (Linksys WRT 1900 ACS), the IPTV stream is using approx 1Mbit/s - a bit more for HD. The streams are set to DVB.
One thing that may throw a light on the problem is that whilst watching IPTV channels, if I disconnect the OS Mini box from the internet, the program carries on for approx. 20 seconds before freezing. This suggests a buffering problem in the STB, but no idea how to fix this or why it's happening.
Another clue is that when the box freezes and I change channel and back, it often restarts approx 2 seconds before the freeze event.

Any assistance would be most welcome.

Thanks,

John.

[roy0110]

you could try using the cacheflush plugin, available in the feeds.
it does sound like a saturated server problem though.
and 10mbs is quite slow for iptv streaming, especially HD streams.
try using a different device/s if the problem is replicated it will point to, or rule out server/network issues.

[twol]

What never fails to amaze me, is the „my source is perfect or I haven‘t changed anything and it works on my other/friends box“ - its never that simple.
These are sat receivers, not IPTV based receivers. It may only be a glitch in the send from your „perfect“ supplier or even in a glitch on the internet or your local broadband supplier legally blocking your stream ... but if their is a delay then the E2 code just may not be able to re-sync.
Which is why restarting the stream is OK.
Saturated server? .... these receivers handle quite happily playing local video files with higher rate streams.

[gibbletts]

Kind of agree these "suppliers" are criminals at the end of the day and don't have the bandwidth of legitimate companies. I've commented in the past how it seems ok to talk about Iptv yet cardsharing talk was always no go in the past, how times have changed.

[daz450]

Use a VPN !!!

[Andy_Hazza]

Kind of agree these "suppliers" are criminals at the end of the day and don't have the bandwidth of legitimate companies. I've commented in the past how it seems ok to talk about Iptv yet cardsharing talk was always no go in the past, how times have changed.

It will only be a matter of time before its introduced into the forum rules.


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[RogerTheTodger]

I've been playing with the serviceapp plugin, as exteplayer3 is supposedly better for IPTV playback. Although exteplayer3 didn't solve the issue in my case, I did come across this interesting discussion on another forum. Somebody has posted code that supposedly fixes the freezing issue, something to do with a stalled InfoBarStateInfos. The patch is located here.. I believe this applies to OpenDreambox images, but I'd imagine the code would be similar for OpenVix since they are both for Enigma2 boxes? Can anybody confirm?

[Blu-ray]

I've been playing with the serviceapp plugin, as exteplayer3 is supposedly better for IPTV playback. Although exteplayer3 didn't solve the issue in my case, I did come across this interesting discussion on another forum. Somebody has posted code that supposedly fixes the freezing issue, something to do with a stalled InfoBarStateInfos. The patch is located here.. I believe this applies to OpenDreambox images, but I'd imagine the code would be similar for OpenVix since they are both for Enigma2 boxes? Can anybody confirm?

Please try another image the Vix image is not compatible with your supplier, use Wooshbuild or iPab if you go to your Band/Admin they will tell you the same don’t waste your time trying to get Vix image to run smooth with iptv as it was designed for satellite.