Very Choppy or sometimes won't even stream

Jules · March 5, 2018, 4:12pm

I have been using Channels DVR since it went first beta. Over the last few months I noticed streaming issues occurring and just getting worse. I tried to stream a program from my Mac mini (2014) edition and when I start to stream:

Very choppy, I see video and hear audio for a 1/2 second then won’t play for another 10 seconds, then plays video/audio for another 1/2 second and does this in a loop. So play 1/2 pause 10 seconds. Never a constant play.
or it will just play the audio only (but again very choppy).

The same applies to my iOS device and Windows 7 machine. Very choppy.

Here is my setup:
QNAP TS-251 NAS
wired local network

Channels setting has the following listed:
OSQNAP TS-251+
Linux Qts
“4.3.4 (20180215)” (kernel: 4.2.8)
CPU
4 cores / Intel® Celeron® CPU J1900 @ 1.99GHz
load averages: 9.06 11.51 12.52
RAM 7.68 GB
10.4% free

My log file is below

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2018/03/05 09:00:30 [TNR] Closed connection to 10543474 for ch4.1
2018/03/05 09:00:53 [DVR] Finished job 1520254620-72 Good Day at 7AM
2018/03/05 09:00:53 [DVR] Waiting 8h28m6.469302554s until next job 1520292540-1 Fox 4 News at 5:30
2018/03/05 09:17:15 [DVR] Commercial detection finished with 8 markers.
2018/03/05 09:17:30 [DVR] Processing file-4692: TV/The Mary Tyler Moore Show/The Mary Tyler Moore Show S04E06 1973-10-20 Fathers Day 2018-03-05-0159.mpg
2018/03/05 09:17:48 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 4692 (TV/The Mary Tyler Moore Show/The Mary Tyler Moore Show S04E06 1973-10-20 Fathers Day 2018-03-05-0159.mpg)
2018/03/05 09:24:07 [DVR] Fetching guide data for 86 stations in USA-OTA75024 @ 2018-03-05 9:00AM
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2018/03/05 09:24:18 [DVR] indexed 17 movies (8 channels) [0s fetch, 0s index]
2018/03/05 09:24:20 [DVR] pruned 71 replaced airings in 2s.
2018/03/05 09:24:21 [DVR] Fetching guide data for 86 stations in USA-OTA75024 @ 2018-03-05 3:00PM
2018/03/05 09:24:27 [DVR] indexed 668 airings (86 channels) [2s fetch, 2s index]
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2018/03/05 09:28:47 [IDX] Pruned 22 expired groups from USA-OTA75024 in 455.176357ms.
2018/03/05 09:28:58 [IDX] Pruned 2423 expired airings from USA-OTA75024 in 10.938213092s.
2018/03/05 09:28:59 [DVR] Rule ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ found 2 new airings
2018/03/05 09:29:01 [DVR] queued recording job 1522061940-65 (SH004653770000-1522062000)
2018/03/05 09:29:01 [DVR] queued recording job 1522063740-65 (SH004653770000-1522063800)
2018/03/05 09:29:09 [DVR] Rule ‘The Simpsons’ found 1 new airings
2018/03/05 09:29:09 [DVR] queued recording job 1522022390-42 (EP000186930673)
2018/03/05 09:29:15 [DVR] Rule ‘The Tonight Show’ found 2 new airings
2018/03/05 09:29:16 [DVR] queued recording job 1522034940-4 (SH023099620000-1522035000)
2018/03/05 09:29:16 [DVR] queued recording job 1522049340-4 (SH023099620000-1522049400)
2018/03/05 09:29:28 [DVR] Rule ‘Good Day at 7AM’ found 1 new airings
2018/03/05 09:29:28 [DVR] queued recording job 1522065420-72 (SH009128500000-1522065600)
2018/03/05 09:29:28 [DVR] Waiting 7h59m31.375805046s until next job 1520292540-1 Fox 4 News at 5:30
2018/03/05 09:39:44 [HLS] Starting transcoder for file4698-ip192.168.1.254 at 0s from 192.168.1.254 (encoder=h264_vaapi, resolution=720, deinterlacer=blend, bitrate=4000)
libva info: VA-API version 1.0.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
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[hls @ 0x2450780] failed to rename file /share/USBDisk1/Multimedia/Channels DVR/Streaming/file4698-ip192.168.1.101/stream67.ts.tmp to /share/USBDisk1/Multimedia/Channels DVR/Streaming/file4698-ip192.168.1.101/stream67.ts: No such file or directory
2018/03/05 09:44:11 [HLS] Stopping transcoder session file4698-ip192.168.1.101 @ 0s
2018/03/05 09:44:13 [HLS] Stopping transcoder for file4698-ip192.168.1.101 after seek to 2m34s (out=0s, finished=false)
2018/03/05 09:44:22 [HLS] Starting transcoder for file4698-ip192.168.1.101 at 2m34s from 192.168.1.101 (encoder=remux, resolution=, deinterlacer=blend, bitrate=10000)
[hls @ 0x2450780] failed to rename file /share/USBDisk1/Multimedia/Channels DVR/Streaming/file4698-ip192.168.1.101/stream68.ts.tmp to /share/USBDisk1/Multimedia/Channels DVR/Streaming/file4698-ip192.168.1.101/stream68.ts: No such file or directory
[mpegts @ 0x24493e0] Dropped corrupted packet (stream = 0)
[mpegts @ 0x23763e0] Dropped corrupted packet (stream = 0)
2018/03/05 09:52:13 [HLS] Stopping transcoder session file4698-ip192.168.1.101 @ 2m55.695711s
[hls @ 0x2450780] failed to rename file /share/USBDisk1/Multimedia/Channels DVR/Streaming/file4698-ip192.168.1.101/stream88.ts.tmp to /share/USBDisk1/Multimedia/Channels DVR/Streaming/file4698-ip192.168.1.101/stream88.ts: No such file or directory
av_interleaved_write_frame(): No such file or directory
2018/03/05 09:56:02 [HLS] Starting transcoder for file4698-ip192.168.1.68 at 2m54s from 192.168.1.68 (encoder=remux, resolution=, deinterlacer=blend, bitrate=10000)
2018/03/05 09:56:24 [HLS] Starting transcoder for file4698-ip192.168.1.254 at 6s from 192.168.1.254 (encoder=h264_vaapi, resolution=720, deinterlacer=blend, bitrate=4000)
libva info: VA-API version 1.0.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
[mpegts @ 0x2c4e3e0] Dropped corrupted packet (stream = 0)
2018/03/05 09:57:55 [HLS] Stopping inactive session file4698-ip192.168.1.254 @ 12.089433s
2018/03/05 10:00:57 [HLS] Stopping transcoder session file4698-ip192.168.1.68 @ 3m11.481822s

tmm1 · March 5, 2018, 5:23pm

This warning means the DVR is not able to write to your drive fast enough. Maybe it is failing.

tmm1 · March 5, 2018, 5:25pm

These load averages are really high. It means your NAS cpu usage is at 100% because of something running on there. Probably explains the slow write issue too.

Jules · March 5, 2018, 5:44pm

That is what I thought, but went on go into the NAS configuration the CPU is only at 55%-65%. Mind you RAM is at 85%.

The funny thing is when I go to my NVIDIA Shield TV and use Channels, it streams pretty good with only a few choppy spots. But from the web it is very choppy.

tmm1 · March 5, 2018, 5:53pm

The web ui requires transcoding which requires CPU on your NAS.

You should figure out what’s using all that cpu in your NAS because it should be close to 0-10% if nothing is going on. Maybe a reboot will help.

Jules · March 5, 2018, 7:19pm

So I recorded a 2 hour TV show from 7 to 9am. Channels DVR started to process recording and detect commercials at 9am and right now it is 1:18pm Central and it is still processing. Usually it takes 1 1/2 hours to do this task. I think this may be the issue. Would you agree?

tmm1 · March 5, 2018, 7:20pm

If the cpu is busy then commercial detection will be slower. I think all the problems point to the same issue- something is hogging your NAS CPU.

Jules · March 5, 2018, 7:35pm

I am doing a reboot now. I don’t know what changed on my NAS to cause this issue but Channels DVR used to work like a champ.

I have an NVIDIA Shield TV, would it be best to move Channels DVR over there instead. If I attach an external hard rive to the Shield TV will it use it as storage?

tmm1 · March 5, 2018, 7:40pm

Honestly the NAS is probably a better fit for DVR. Can you go into the settings to see a CPU usage list? Maybe you installed some other app that started going crazy on there.

Jules · March 5, 2018, 8:02pm

Can you tell me what the load averages mean.
load averages: 10.83 5.67 2.60

I rebooted and just waiting for things to load.

tmm1 · March 5, 2018, 8:09pm

You have four cores in your CPU, so a load average of 4 means 100% cpu usage. The three numbers are 1min/5min/15min averages.

Jules · March 5, 2018, 10:28pm

So I restarted my NAS and now CPU and RAM levels were nominal.

Channels DVR listed the following:

4 cores / Intel® Celeron® CPU J1900 @ 1.99GHz
load averages: 2.07 1.80 1.57

From my computer, I started to play the same recorded episode once again, and it played for about 3 minutes then the video disappeared shortly after that you just heard audio repeat itself over and over again. At the bottom of the log files there are several failures.

Here is the log file:
2018/03/05 14:56:03 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 4697 (TV/The Ed Sullivan Show/The Ed Sullivan Show 1948-06-20 2018-03-05-0629.mpg)
2018/03/05 15:01:31 [DVR] Commercial detection finished with 4 markers.
2018/03/05 15:01:37 [SYS] Created database snapshot: backup-20180305.150136
2018/03/05 15:01:37 [SYS] Removing old backup backup-20180204.211607
2018/03/05 16:22:08 [HLS] Starting transcoder for file4698-ip192.168.1.68 at 36m47s from 192.168.1.68 (encoder=remux, resolution=, deinterlacer=blend, bitrate=10000)
[mpegts @ 0x2c8f3e0] Dropped corrupted packet (stream = 0)
Last message repeated 4 times
[aac @ 0x2d107e0] Queue input is backward in time
[hls @ 0x2c95b20] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 1666320, current: 1665225; changing to 1666321. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[mpegts @ 0x2c8f3e0] Dropped corrupted packet (stream = 0)
Last message repeated 1 times
[aac @ 0x2d107e0] Queue input is backward in time
[hls @ 0x2c95b20] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 8213044, current: 8207351; changing to 8213045. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[hls @ 0x2c95b20] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 8213045, current: 8209271; changing to 8213046. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[hls @ 0x2c95b20] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 8213046, current: 8211191; changing to 8213047. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[mpegts @ 0x2c8f3e0] Dropped corrupted packet (stream = 0)
Last message repeated 3 times
[aac @ 0x2d107e0] Queue input is backward in time
[hls @ 0x2c95b20] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 15018551, current: 15016078; changing to 15018552. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[hls @ 0x2c95b20] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 15018552, current: 15017998; changing to 15018553. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[mpegts @ 0x2c8f3e0] Dropped corrupted packet (stream = 0)
2018/03/05 16:23:22 [HLS] Pausing transcoder (out: 43m29.763689s, view: 38m29s)…
2018/03/05 16:24:22 [HLS] Stopping transcoder session file4698-ip192.168.1.68 @ 43m29.763689s
2018/03/05 16:24:22 [HLS] Resuming transcoder (out: 43m29.763689s, view: 38m26s)…

tmm1 · March 5, 2018, 10:34pm

From the earlier logs, some of the recordings were corrupted because of the buffering errors. So that recording might be messed up and won’t play back correctlyz

Jules · March 5, 2018, 10:38pm

Can you let me know why there would be buffering errors?

If buffering errors occur is there any way that you could indicate that on the setting web page to alert the user some recordings are corrupted and won’t play correctly.

tmm1 · March 5, 2018, 10:42pm

It could be the same issue as before with the CPU usage. Your load average looks much more reasonable now, so whatever runaway process was hogging CPU got killed off during the reboot.

The usual reason for the buffering errors is because the drive is failing. The buffer overflow means the drive wasn’t writing the video file fast enough so parts of the video were lost.

This is a good idea, we definitely need something like this.

Jules · March 5, 2018, 10:52pm

Thank you very much for the explanation.

However, now I am wondering if my external drives are causing the issue. I have 4 external drives (connected to a USB 3.0 hub) - (1 drive for movies, 1 for TV Shows, 1 for a backup, 1 for Channels DVR). Even though they are attached to a USB 3.0 connection could that cause the issue?

The external hard drive purchased was the Seagate Expansion 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB5000100).

I don’t have enough space on the internal drive to store the Channel DVR recordings.

Has anyone else reported a similar issue to mine?

tmm1 · March 5, 2018, 10:54pm

That’s a pretty unique setup.

I would say go to the guide and just record a bunch of stuff, and see if the log shows those buffering errors or not. If not, then your drive is probably fine and the issue was related to whatever CPU problem was happening before.