I have a linux server with Tvheadend 3.2.18 on it. On my RPi I have installed the Openelec beta 5. Since I own (a few weeks) a raspberry pi, I'm never had the plesure to watch Live TV. My EPG works fine, also recorded programs plays perfect. But when I try to watch Live TV I only get a black screen. This is for SD as for HD content. I had this issue also with beta 3 and 4. Once I could watch a channel. I think it was with beta 3.

When I start my RPi, I see that tvheadend PVR addon is starting up and pulling and importing the EPG from my tvheadend server.

On my laptop with XBMC installed and Live TV works fine.

I have installed the MPEG-2 and VC-1 license.

Is this a problemn with the PVR Addon for the RPi?

Hi,
i think openelec for raspberry pi is having issues with live tv in latest releases.
I have same results with my raspberry: blank screen and no audio. Sometimes i can see a frame or 2.
I tried an almost stable release some months ago, i think it was a r11xxx build.
Tried also with raspberry model B (512 mb), no hope.
I have Tvheadend Build: 2.99.53.4502158 on a linux server with ubuntu 12.04 .

Somewhere i read about an issue with mkv streams from tvheadend.

I hope this will be fixed asap, i think raspberry could be a perfect stb for dvb-s and dvb-t.

hi

i have the same problem but, i have played around with the playback settings i found out that wenn sound is sync with video it works not perfect but it works the only thing what is not working is zapping.
After zapp only audio is present only black screen.
i have tried to overclock the pi no success, i have tried some settings with overscan nothing.
So i have no idea if this a bug or missconfigured xbmc pi.


lg easyhugo

I tried also with tvheadend 3 beta from adam sutton repos, with no success, same issues.
Waiting for help,
thanks,
bye

i have a server only for tvheadend 3.2.18 for other xbmcs
only the pi xbmc makes troubles with live tv on tvheadend
i think it has nothing to do with tvheadend only with pi xbmc and syncing audio video and sacling the video

i will hope a develop will read in the forum and can give an answer

lg easyhugo

Same problem here. Works fine on other XBMC clients, not on PI. Raspbmc also has the same problem so I'm guessing the issue is with XBMC somewhere. Very, very occasionally it will work OK - video and sound.
I have tried with tvheadend on another PC and on the same PC (raspbmc) - same problem.

I can cofirm too that on another system (desktop pc with amd cpu) openelec works well with live tv pointing to the same tvheadend server i use with raspberry.
So i think we should move to xbmc forum, i'll open a thread and a ticket on github asap.

I started a thread on xbmc forum, under "Raspberry support" section.
Please join and submit your experience.
Thank you.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=148646

I tried OE 3.0 RC1 (2.99.1) however still no live TV from TVHeadend on RPi. My other boxes (Fusion and Ion) with OE 2.0 work normal.

Also tried latest 2 versions of RaspBMC (Beta 3 and RC2) but the have the same problem.

All,

I'm curious as to what the streams for LiveTV that you guys are trying to watch are encoded in?

I have LiveTV running in the UK, served from a TVHeadEnd server, to Openelec running on a Rpi. The streams are generally MPEG-2 - Consequentely, I had to purchase the licence for the codecs and after that could watch LiveTV.

Maybe that's the reason...?

Please forgive this cross-post from the XBMC forums.

I am having a similar problem.

I am in Australia - all DVB channels broadcast are 16:9 whether they are HD or SD. All DVB channels here are MPEG2.

See my system specs below. When I first start watching Live TV the video is stretched to full screen (4:3) whether it is an SD or HD channel. After changing channel the picture changes to 16:9 letterboxed (correctly). However, if I have Settings/Video/Playback/Display 4:3 videos as "Normal", when the Live TV is displayed letterboxed, it also crops part of the left and right side of the picture - cutting out part of active vision. If I set Settings/Video/Playback/Display 4:3 videos as "Strech 16:9", it fixes this left/right cropping issue. But I still have to do at least one channel change to fix the full-screen stretch issue.

I also occasionally get the black screen issue. I find pressing "Stop" (x on the keyboard) and then re-watching TV fixes this.

I have started using TVHeadend with XBMC after giving up on MythTV Live TV due to stability issues. TVHeadend seems more stable. But MythTV did not have these aspect ratio / cropping / black screen issues that TVHeadend seems to have.

TV: 4:3 CRT - composite input
XBMC Platform: Raspberry Pi 512MB RAM
OS: Openelec devel-20130107142611-r12816
OS Build: OpenELEC git: Commit:29d4e56
XBMC Version:12.0-RC3 Git: c47e925 Compiled 7 Jan 2013
TV Backend: TVHeadend 3.3.402~ga958415
Tvheadend XBMC Client: v1.6.10

look here
forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=148646&page=13
#post123
github.com/polini/TvhPiProxyby ssh

i put TvhPiProxy.py in / userdata , i modify "tvheaedend client" > 9982 >9983 >reboot

by ssh : cd .xbmc cd userdata ./tvhpiproxy &

127.0.0.1 .... has connected

ALL MY LIVE TV local work on my raspberry.. [ 512} nothing in advanced setting .. juste 850 425 275 in config.txt

EDIT: OE 2.99.4 .
DVB-T (haupaauge aéro) > sd + hd /eac3 = live tv =OK , record and http = OK
DVB-S/S2 (skystar usb hd) > live tv =artefact .. overclock= turbo >artefact
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I found the following issue on github: github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/issues/2047

My be we get it solved...

issue closed there.... it's solved or closed becouse it known issue in omxplayer?

Hi all,

it´s getting better now. Live tv from TVHeadend is working now in 3.0.2. However still cropped image.