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Can’t start live tv stream

Open kimme1024 opened this issue 1 year ago • 7 comments

Describe the bug

New here, so not entirely into the details. When trying to start a livestream I’m getting a “sad smiley” on osmc. This stays for half a minute. Then osmc becomes available again in the main menu. It also clears the logs somehow so I assume osmc restarts after this.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to live kijken
  2. Click on any livestream
  3. See error

554ED4E9-03EC-4968-B47C-BB2B488401B5

Expected behavior

Start livestream

Additional context

  • Operating system: osmc 22.10-1
  • Kodi version: 19.4
  • Addon version: 2.5.20
  • Using a VPN: no
  • Country you are using the addon from: Belgium

Log (if available)



kimme1024 avatar Jan 06 '23 20:01 kimme1024

Maybe a problem with OSMC related to the encryption and the high resolution? When you start a livestream your system needs support for Widevine encryption and 1080p50 resolution playback.

You can lower the resolution in the VRT MAX add-on settings to 720p50 in the Playback tab by setting maximal bandwidth to 4096 (Or 3072 for 540p25 resolution)

mediaminister avatar Jan 07 '23 16:01 mediaminister

Maybe a problem with OSMC related to the encryption and the high resolution? When you start a livestream your system needs support for Widevine encryption and 1080p50 resolution playback.

You can lower the resolution in the VRT MAX add-on settings to 720p50 in the Playback tab by setting maximal bandwidth to 4096 (Or 3072 for 540p25 resolution)

Sadly that wasn’t the solution. Even on 2560 the issue remains.

kimme1024 avatar Jan 08 '23 11:01 kimme1024

I guess you need to make sure that all components to get Widevine encryption working are installed: https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/how-to-get-libwidevine-working-in-osmc-kodi-19-netflix-disney-viaplay/90848

mediaminister avatar Jan 08 '23 14:01 mediaminister

I can’t seem to get that working either.

osmc@osmc:~$ ./libwidevine_prep_osmc.sh
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package python3-crypto is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'python3-crypto' has no installation candidate

there’s also no way to install python3-crypto…

kimme1024 avatar Jan 18 '23 13:01 kimme1024

Try sudo apt-get install python3-cryptography And see https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/problem-installing-python-crypto-module-dependency-for-netflix-add-on/93713

mediaminister avatar Jan 18 '23 19:01 mediaminister

Having the same issue on osmc. The following worked for me:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev
sudo apt-get install python3-cryptography
wget https://github.com/zjoasan/OSMC_libwide_prep/raw/main/libwidevine_prep_osmc.sh
chmod +x libwidevine_prep_osmc.sh
./libwidevine_prep_osmc.sh

CoderPupil avatar Feb 24 '23 20:02 CoderPupil

I also had the frowny face. I followed @CoderPupil's suggestions. However, for kodi version >= 19 the only relevant thing libwidevine_prep_osmc.sh does is also install python3-ptcryptodome, so I did that manually. Now sporza works!

MJuddBooth avatar Mar 30 '23 11:03 MJuddBooth