why iptv channels stops after seconds on smart iptv

Disable ALL rewrite options (PMT, PAT, SDT, EIT), these settings had the biggest impact for me.

Timeout 0 (may need to experiment with between 5-10 second) I'm running the latest 4.3 unstable release at the time of writing, with OSMC frontends running on Raspi3 (with MPEG2 licenses) Key settings for me, are/were as follows, I can't advise the fall-out of changing these settings, but they seem to have more or less completely resolved my issues with IPtv stalling on TVHeadend, whilst I still see some 'service instance is bad, reason: No input detected' in the logs, the feed reconnects and streams without stalling and without skipping back 10 seconds or so and replaying: Running 2 instances of TVheadend, they would drop out at completely different times, again adding weight to the IPTV stream itself not being at fault. When using the pipe:// method with FFMpeg, everything played flawlessly, making me suspect a setting or two somewhere causing problems when using the 'IPTV Automatic' network and importing an M3U with regular HTTP streams - I'd rather not have edited a number of URLs manually to include pipe:// FFmpeg etc! So I started to twiddle some knobs to try and find a solution.Īs a few people seemed to also note, when playing the IPtv feeds with VLC directly they would play flawlessly, adding some weight to the IPTV stream not being at fault.

Figured I'd share this, as I struggled for a long time with IPTV feeds - they would frequently stall, drop out, replay previous 10 seconds or so, etc.

Why iptv channels stops after seconds on smart iptv