OpenPHT 1.7.1 - FFMPEG AVIO Stuttering/Not Buffering

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Hello,

I’m at work and just posting this on the off chance it’s a simple fix but I will follow this up with logs soon.

I’m trying to run OpenPHT with FFMPEG AVIO enabled (hardware is a Pi3), I believe this has benefits to buffering and I can bit-stream to my receiver (though I may be wrong in my understanding, feel free to correct me!).

With FFMPEG disabled I can buffer up to 100mb, not the 10% specified, and even modifying the advancedsettings.xml file seems to make no difference to increase this. I’ve removed this file and when I enable FFMPEG and then direct play from a remote server my stream stutters frequently.

I do note if I direct play from a local server on my network there is no stuttering, same settings.

Does anybody have any immediate thoughts to troubleshoot this? I’m going to try an older version when I have time as my next step with diagnosing this but I’d appreciate any feedback.

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I’ve done a little more testing and this is where I’m currently at…

  • I’ve installed the embedded version onto a spare computer I had around, still 1.7.1 but different architecture still nothing, though it did enable me to run video without FFMPEG enabled to gain DTS-HD as this is now passed to the receiver.
    – This test still stops caching at 100mb, buffer filled and starts playing.
    – Tested with FFMPEG on and off
    – advancedsettings.xml is present and I can see in the debug log the settings are read in

  • Different test, I’m a Windows guy so I’ve abstracted away from OpenElec and installed OpenPHT on my Windows 10 desktop and still the same problem.
    – Same tests as above come out the same across 3 different machines OS’s

At this point I’m a little stumped, I can see a few other threads online with people with the same issues and no resolution.

This is unfortunately quite important to me as our internet is pretty terrible, I’d like to be able to kick off pre-caching for a movie, go off and do something else for half an hour and then begin watching later. I know that’s not ideal but my only other option would be to download movies temporarily to my desktop which I’d rather not do if I should be able to cache up to 25% with OpenPHT

**Attached log below