Hello,
I’m running LibreELEC 7.0.2 and Kodi 16.1 on Cubox with 3.14 Kernel. I watch Netherlands TV from cable provider Ziggo using tvheadend (all legal and paid for). I’ve had this problem for a few months now, maybe it’s been there from beginning but I am not sure.
Short story. I’m having two issues. First issue – if I select a particular deinterlace method for a particular channel, the method initially is saved. However, after some time (maybe some restarts), when I switch to the channel a different method ends up being selected. Second issue – if I change the method from a selected method to “Auto”, next time I switch to channel, the selected deinterlace method is not “Auto” but the method previously selected.
Long story: All Ziggo HD channels are interlaced so I have to deinterlace them. However not all HD channels look good with “Auto” setting. Therefore I have to find the best deinterlace method, change it for each channel so next time I switch to that channel, that deinterlace method should be selected. I have an option of four methods plus “Auto”: IMX – Low Motion, IMX – Double rate (inverted), IMX – Double rate, IMX – Fast motion. Now I already know that when “Auto” is selected, and HD channel is interlaced, the selected method is “IMX – Double rate”. And I also found out from trail and error that only two methods are good enough and I only use those two: “IMX – Double rate” and “IMX – Double rate (inverted)”.
I started off with all channels having “Auto” selected and applied this setting to all channels. Then after trial and error for each channel that needs interlacing (only HD channels), I either left “Auto” or I selected “IMX – Double rate (inverted)”. Now the problems start. After some days, maybe a restart here or there, when I switch to some channel that should have “Auto” as the method, the method ends up being “IMX – Double rate (inverted)”. Then the second problem happens. Now I change from “IMX – Double rate (inverted)” to “Auto”. I stop playback and turn TV back on but it goes back to “IMX – Double rate (inverted)”. After this happened many times, I had to change the method to “IMX – Double rate” (because that’s what “Auto” is) and then the method would be saved. However, again, after I few days or restarts the channels might have different methods than the ones selected (basically reversed methods).
Now this seems to me like a problem with the database and/or deinterlace method retrieval/saving.
Here is the debug log of these problems: https://paste.ubuntu.com/23772710/
What I did here was restart after turning on debug logging, brought up EPG, switched to channel “NPO 2 HD” that is supposed to have “Auto” or “IMX – Double rate” deinterlace method. However the channel loads with “IMX – Double rate (inverted)” method. I change to “Auto”. Stop playback. Start playback again. Method is still “IMX – Double rate (inverted)”.
Any thoughts?