Freezing

[eric859]

I've been experiencing issues with freezing of the addon which completely freezes Kodi. I am running on Windows 7. Not sure if this is a common issue or not. If there are logs I can upload, please let me know which ones and I will do so.

[primaeval]

Tell me a bit more. Is it so frozen you need to kill the kodi process or just hangs when starting a stream?
Does it freeze when you start a stream straight from an addon or m3u file or when starting it from TVGF?

[eric859]

It seems to freeze Kodi completely. The screen gets frozen and I can't even see get a Kodi is not responding message until I hit CTRL-Alt-Del and choose Task Manager. Then I see the Kodi is not responding message and I can kill kodi. It seems to happen occassionally as it is importing channels and epg if I have it set to reset on startup. It also happens occassionally when in the epg trying to select a station.

[primaeval]

Only turn "reset on startup" on once to clear out messes in the database.

I expect it is the source of your streams hanging. Is there a pattern? Is it the same stream?

Turn on debug logging. If it happens again have a look in the kodi.log file. Search for script.tvguide.fullscreen. If you find anything with with error or warning and some python code let me know and send me the kodi.log in a pm at the kodi forum. There are usually a few warnings that you don't have to worry about in there.

It might be some kind of unicode problem when importing the channels. I have fixed a lot of those bugs but I expect there are more.

[eric859]

I will make sure the reset on startup is turned off. I absolutely see it when switching to a channel that is not working. Instead of giving me an error, Kodi hangs. I believe that's a big issue if you're supporting m3u streams as they tend to be unreliable. Is that something that I can resolve by setting a timeout somewhere? I will turn on debug logging and send you something when it happens again. Thank you!

[primaeval]

It really depends on how nicely the server or addon closes the web socket when it can't make a connection. It is pretty much out of my control. The guide just waits for Kodi to timeout trying to play the stream. If it doesn't respond to a Stop (x button) command there is not much you can do.