CoreELEC 9.2 (Kodi 18.x - Leia) with IPTV Archive support

Hi.

I have a problem with the plugin. Fresh COREELEC installation. The problem is that if I start a TV program first (the channel works) and then start the video plugin (tested on several e.g. scrubs v2, fanfilm), the found movie fires but does not display any image or sound.

Then, after exiting the video plug-in and returning to the TV plug-in, the channels no longer work (and before the video plug-in worked).

The other way around is the same. If I start the video plugin first, the movie will turn on without any problem but if I then go into the video plugin, the channels will no longer work.

Is it possible that PVR IPTV ARCHIVE CLIENT has a problem with video plugins (several different). I don’t know where the error is.

Please help.

No. Your “video plugin” must be crashing the decoder, and then you need to restart the box in order for everything to go back to normal.

I checked with my IPTV provider about how the “catch-up” functionality was implemented, since I didn’t find any catchup-source tags in my m3u file. They told me that they don’t have that in the m3u files, everything is “taken care of in the backend”. :wink:

Anyone with the same vendor solution?

Me. It took me a week to reverse engineered how it works. Something I don’t suggest to anyone.

As I understand, archive is supported now in upstream: https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.iptvsimple/issues/273#issuecomment-580178270
So is there any sense still to keep the separate addon?

Not really, but the upstream support was added to Kodi Matrix, we’re still on Leia.
When we move to Matrix, this addon will become redundant and will be removed.

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Ok. Thanks anyway to push it forward all this time! :slight_smile:

PS: hope one day the same will be with CE itself :smiley:

Well, the current Kodi\pvr.iptvsimple archive implementation is partially based on this work. And it’s definitely inspired by it :slight_smile:

Yes, I follow the github :wink:

Oh, well, maybe it is not woth it then. Thanks

I have that format:
#EXTINF:-1 timeshift="7" catchup-days="7" catchup-type="flussonic" tvg-id="program" group-title="Channels" tvg-logo="http://host.org:85/icon/5632.png",Progran-name http://host.org/5632/video.m3u8?username=xxxxxxx&password=xxxxxxxxxx&token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&ch_id=648&req_host=xxxxx
How do I force the archive to work? Help, thank you.

Look at my post CoreELEC with IPTV Archive support

You can host somewhere that flussonic script and pass to it url of your list, then in addon put output url as m3u url. If you can’t host it, then you must edit your list manually, save it local and put path to it to addon

You must edit channel to something like this:

#EXTINF:-1 timeshift="7" catchup-days="7" catchup-type="default" catchup-source="http://host.org/5632/video-{utc}-10800.m3u8?username=xxxxxxx&password=xxxxxxxxxx&token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&ch_id=648&req_host=xxxxx" tvg-id="program" group-title="Channels" tvg-logo="http://host.org:85/icon/5632.png",Progran-name http://host.org/5632/video.m3u8?username=xxxxxxx&password=xxxxxxxxxx&token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&ch_id=648&req_host=xxxxx

@Mr_Groch I am experiencig playback from archive stops itself without any reason. That’s random, after 10, 20 minutee or even 1 hour.

Should I blame my iptv provider, or maybe still flussonic archive has some issues? Have you got any stops/playback interruptions? I used your script to convert m3u

If playback stops it’s probably just a stream cut off. At least this was always in my case. Maybe you could play with network settings in advancedsettings.xml for kodi.

What do you mean by “stream cut off”? What do I need to adjust? Some kind of buffer size?

Stream cut off: no more data from provider.

https://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.xml#Network_settings

Do you mean increasing readfactor?

@TheCoolest Does Kodi Matrix Nightly on Android include this addon?

It’s now part of iptvsimple. I’m not sure what they did about the configuration of the archive tho.

Do you mean it’s merged into mainstream iptvsimple? So IPTV Archive as separate addon won’t be supported anymore starting from Kodi Matrix?