Live TV HEVC streams not playing-Libreelec Intel generic

[yamcenutzer]

This issue was previously reported as
Live TV HEVC streams not playing-Ubuntu 22.04 lts Kodi Nexus #619 and closed, imho somewhat unsatisfyingly.

I am seeing this in Libreelec 11/12 , but ONLY on Intel generic.
LE on Rpi4/5 talking to the same tvheadend server works as advertised (actual only 4, since rpi5 still does everything in SW)

Any ideas?

[ksooo]

The addon does not manipulate the stream it gets from tvheadend. It just hands the data over to kodi player. So nothing that can be fixed in the addon.

[Jalle19]

Perhaps we should use "Transfer issue" and move these to Kodi's issue tracker?

[Long-Man]

Had a similar problem with Pi4 and my NUCs.
The fix for me was disabling

• Settings>Player>Video>Use HEVC VAAPI

Maybe it will work for you too.

[yamcenutzer]

It is an interesting issue, as no one has any idea how it can be.

• it works on rpi

• it doesn't work on intel

• it works without VAAPI (i.e. SW) but that is NOT what anybody wants in the long term

• maybe it works as http instead of rtsp, but even then only as SW, and then you lose timeshift, which is what a TV-player is all about

• the recorded stream works perfectly in VAAPI i.e HW

• if the client is the same on rpi and intel , and it doesn't touch the stream , and the recorded stream (typcally mkv or mp4) works,
  then what remains is that rtsp must be handled somehow different on intel and rpi.

What am I missing?

I am asking here, because, after trying in the LE forum, it seems that the kodi/media community is quickly losing interest and/or skills when it comes to intel, and is rather fixated on on the new class of throwaway arm devices or misusing the rpi for it.

[ksooo]

@yamcenutzer again, this is the wrong place to ask, because the issue cannot be fixed in pvr.hts. Go and open an issue for Kodi: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues

[yamcenutzer]

guess where I came from :-), But you're probably right I need to rephrase and try again over there