ChannelsDVR in Tesla

#1

I've been playing my video recordings in the web browser of my Tesla for years. During the past month it now will only play about a minute or so of a recorded program, and then stop.

Live programming, streaming from my antenna at home streams perfectly with no issues. It's only the recorded programs that stop playing after about a minute.

My recorded video's play fine on ALL other equipment, whether it be in a web browser or the app so I fail to see where there's anything wrong with my server. And since the live video runs continually without issues in the car's browser, I fail to see where it's a buffer or bandwidth issue. I'm stumped. None of my recordings will play more than a minute in the Tesla browser, but live video is fine. What could possibly be wrong?

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#2

have you tried changing the Playback Quality, or Client Buffer?
channels does handle streaming recordings and hdhr differently.

#3

I did try increasing the client buffer, but that had no effect. Other services from my NAS stream fine. I haven’t changed anything such as quality or streaming rate but perhaps I’m hitting a browser limit of some sort. I’ll see if I can reduce the streaming quality and see what happens.

#4

I know starlink has been making changes to its throughput, perhaps they are throttling certain protocols, but not sure how cdvr would differ from others your using.
any difference h264 or h265?

#5

I am seeing this as well. It’s very strange, on live content fps hovers around 60fps but recorded content runs up to 500fps plus. When the stream fails it still shows transcoding. So frustrating.

Live stream pic;

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Recorded content stream:

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Recorded content stream when it fails:

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@maddox diagnostic log submitted under baeb161a-9ef0-4d88-8386-cfeb43dc8766

Teslas don’t use Starlink, they use regular cell tower data. Verizon I believe.

#6

you know I didn't really think so, but wouldn't surprise me if changes they made for the birds were also made for the cars. just throwing stuff to see what sticks, until an expert can weight in

#7

you can't transcode live tv faster than...it happens. what you're seeing is completely normal.