Thanks IanBlackhole your having a laugh right ? worst image there is for streaming with outdated libs and cant even accommodate Serviceapp and Extplayer3 properly.
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I would try hacking your TCP Stack by moving your eth0 over to core 2 and increasing your E2 TCP buffer size. Google it if your unsure, but most linux sites report is has positive results. This hack has been around for years and I use it still on my VU+ Solo 4K
To do this, issue cat /proc/interrupts and make a note of the IRQ numbers used for eth0 and then edit lines 6 and 8 of the script Ive uploaded accordingly.
Then simply send the script to /etc/rc3.d and chmod to 755 and then reboot, then issue cat /proc/interrupts again to check that your eth0 is now running on core 2
This helps things a lot, but by far the greatest benefits from doing this are the other network tweaks that the script applies. The main one being the increasing of the TCP buffer size. It can help massively when using IPTV or a VPN
Dont worry, if you find its not for you or something else is wrong after applying it, you simply delete the script again from /etc/rc3.d and reboot and your image is back to how it was.
Here's a link to the script because I cannot figure out how to upload files here.
http://www.filedropper.com/s01networktuner
Please make a full backup of your image first though. I've never know anything go wrong, but I would hate for me to be the cause of it corrupting your image.
The main reason why people don't use Exteplayer because of framedrops in mpeg4-part2 and HLS streams are pixelated
Gstreamer gives you higher frame rates it's consider the best.
Exteplayer uses less cpu but performance is much worse not recommended. It was one man project. The main plugin is GSTREAMER.
However, until the image writers increase the connection timeout used by Gstreamer, its always going to be a pain with slower IPTV servers. I think the current timeout is about 1 second. So if the IPTV server doesn't respond in 1 second or less, Gstreamer just gives up trying to connect resulting in the stream not starting and the user having to repeatedly zap away and then back again to get the stream to start. I think the timeout with Exteplayer3 is around 5 seconds, which gives plently of time for the IPTV server to respond, resulting usually, in first time connection every time,
Thanks mate. I thought changing permissions of the file had to be done by command line. Have set it to 755 via filezilla and seems to be working ok but unfortuanately hasn't fixed the issue of Bigmac not reading the data on certain channels. For now I've added part of the url to the exceptions in Bigmac to just ignore that service.The moving of eth0 over to core 2 is not as important these days, but it does still help if you are for example streaming from IPTV whilst also downloading something in the background using wget or curl. Its the other network tweaks that are more important with today's faster more modern boxes. These tweaks can have a massive impact in preventing freezing and stuttering from IPTV or when using a VPN. I only suggested you try this to see if it helps with the Bigmac plugin, because mine works pretty flawlessly and I'm using this TCP stack mod and have done for years and I thought it maybe possible it would help you too.
Chmod is nothing sinister lol its just the attributes that you grant certain files and folders in your box. 755 is read, write and execute ( full permissions ) which are required because this is a script that the image needs to read and then execute. Whatever FTP program that you use will allow you to change these permissions usually by just right clicking on the file in your box and then selecting your chosen attribute.
This mod may not address your problems when using the Bigmac plugin, as there are many factors governing the images ability to monitor the RXQ traffic which the plugin uses, such as the image used ( I'm also using ATV 6.3 ) drivers or even your ISP, but it certainly cannot do any harm in trying it. I would also try turning on QoS in your router too as this may also help.
I'll take a look this weekend, to see what gives. I really really really don't want to go and do plugins that have binary dependencies, it really ticks me off that they've SWIG'ed so much but still not enough.
I came to this conclusion, because any simple streaming plugin can easily control this setting in python when Gstreamer is called that way. but when its called from Bouquets it simply gives up trying to connect if the IPTV Server doesn't respond in around 1 second.
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I have not tried GSTPlayer (5001) from Bouquets and perhaps I will as this controls Gstreamer externally without having to go through dvbmediasink, but the last time I tried it from a streaming plugin it was not good as its now very old and has not been updated in years.
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