Error creating video channel

[strk]

the live channel often plays only audio and no video. looking at the log it seems there's an error at startup, about not finding width/height in the stream. trying over and over eventually gives you a success.

I think this is due to a keyframe being required but not found in the initial buffer sent to ffmpeg.
Can you keep sending more of the buffer on error, rather than giving up ?

[NeverWise]

I can try to provide more information to the stream to xbmc.
When I have time I'll try to make this change.

[NeverWise]

I found a solution that seems to mitigate the problem, if you want I can tell you how to modify the addon so you can try.

[strk]

Sure, can you put it in a branch maybe ?

[NeverWise]

Try commit 21422fe

[strk]

Against which commit should I compare it ?

As of 21422fe I could not reproduce the problem but I hadn't tried if I could reproduce it with a previous version.

[NeverWise]

You can compare it with the previous commit 634b33c.

[strk]

Right now, with both master and previous, I get:
21:34:19 T:2758249328 NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86018, channels: 2, sample rate: 44100, no pass-through)
21:34:19 T:2766642032 ERROR: Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
21:34:19 T:2766642032 ERROR: Previous line repeats 186 times.

[NeverWise]

Maybe now is right
last commit 8d7b85c
previous commit 21422fe

[strk]

Just a note: I haven't handled to reproduce the problem yet, so
I hadn't upgraded either ...

For the record: the initial problem I detected during the "Circo Massimo"
live around the time of the report.