I wasn’t the one working on it, but yes, it’s now merged.
I am getting freezes/no video and audio when switching to other channel. Only black screen, with osd/progress and no audio/video. When I try to stop playback, Kodi freezes completly and I need to hard reset (disconnect and connect power). To avoid that, I need to stop playback before switch to other channel.
That does not happen with hts/tvheadend client. Is there any workaround for it? Pretty annoying.
This happens to me too sometimes. Now I know that if I don’t get anything playing in a 3 seconds I press stop. Not sure what is the cause and it happens rarely.
In my case, not so rarely. 3/5 times it will happen. But it seems to be related to mainstream simpleiptv as well, so we probably need to report it to original dev. I’m going to test if it’s fixed or not on recent original simple iptv addon, but last time I tried it was not
In this case I blame Kodi and quality of the stream. Because pvr iptvsimple client just passes link to Kodi’s ffmpeg. And somewhere there is a problem.
That’s what I suspected. I need to blame and live with it. As I said before, hts provider has no this problem. Even with the same iptv provider, no problems. If I open the same m3u directly with Kodi - no problems too, I can play each playlist item without any freezes and without need to stop playback.
So I am not so sure I need to blame provider. That’s only flussonic m3u, nothing special.
That’s interesting if opening directly from m3u works. For me it happens so rarely that can’t debug it.
I tested on Kodi Matrix/ Android. That’s version 4.1.0 higher than iptv archive addon 3.8. It works, but only if I disable playback using timeshift. When playback using timeshift enabled, I can’t even seek. Without playback from timeshift enabled, I can watch from archive, but it always shows event duration is 4 hours. I use Flussonic dvr, playlist converted as it’s suggested above.
On CoreElec and iptv archive addon, I have absolutely no problems, I am able to seek playback at any time etc. Also without playback from timeshift no bugs.
Catchup options are named different, it’s called “Catchup settings”, on CoreElec that’s “Archive Settings”.
Do you think they did not sync latest fixes? @TheCoolest
giaur500, do you also use inputstream.ffmpegdirect addon? I think seeking is provided though it.
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@vpeter I don’t use inputstream.ffmpeg on CoreElec, do I need it on Android?
I didn’t tested yet this thing on Kodi Matrix but my understanding is that stream seeking is done through new inputstream.ffmpegdirect addon. Curent implementation in CoreELEC is very different from Kodi Matrix implementation.
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@vpeter you are indeed problem solver 
Haha. If you have it running on Kodi Matrix let us know how it works.
Well it works when playing from timeshift, I see no issues. Hovewer, when I disable playback from timeshift, it always shows each event is 4 hours duration.
Hello guys, can somebody help me with this addon. My archive url format looks like this:
https://example.com/archive1/20200309_ChannelName_20200309_063000/chunklist.m3u8
This is example of TV Show from 09.03.2020, start 07:30:00.
I don´t know what to write catchup-source.
If some could guide on what are the settings for the archive. I would highly appreciated. Ths!
cathup-source="https://example.com/archive1/{Y}{m}{d}_ChannelName_{Y}{m}{d}_{H}{M}{S}/chunklist.m3u8"
As in:
#EXTINF:0 catchup="default" catchup-source="https://example.com/archive1/{Y}{m}{d}_ChannelName_{Y}{m}{d}_{H}{M}{S}/chunklist.m3u8" catchup-days="7" tvg-id="123" tvg-name="ChannelName" tvg-logo="xxxx" group-title="yyy",ChannelName http://blablabla
You would have to modify a local copy of your provider’s M3U playlist and add appropriate template for each channel (“ChannelName” would be only variable, assuming that “archive1” part is static; if not for all channels then at least always the same for one particular channel).
Also you’ve stated in your example that EPG entry start time is 07:30 but the URL has 06:30. Are you in UTC+1 timezone and server is using time in UTC, or what?
Hello shamanNS, thanks for your answer, I’ll try it and we will see. And yes, I’m in UTC +1 zone and I don’t know why, but server is using UTC time, so EPG shows correct time, but time in archive url is one hour sooner.
I’ve just now noticed that I’ve made a mistake in that date & time template when I was doing copy>paste>edit. My provider uses a date/time formated with separators ("-" for date, “:” for time) and your’s doesn’t.
So you should use “{Y}{m}{d}” instead of “{Y}-{m}-{d}” and “{H}{M}{S}” instead of “{H}:{M}:{S}”.
I’ve edited my previous comment to correct my mistake…
Hi, can you upgrade pvr.iptvarchive to version = “3.9.8” with User-Agent support from advanced addon setting?
Thank you in advance
Yes, we’ll bump it up.