On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 22:28:56 -0800 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
>Perhaps tomorrow morning I can think of other troubleshooting tricks. >Can't think any more now. I am completely out of ideas. The network seems to be working fine on both computers. Speedtest.net says that the desktop is 500Mbps down and 460Mbps up, and the laptop is 587Mbps down and 534Mbps up, both with a ping time of 5ms. That ought to be plenty for the desktop to receive a video stream from the HDHomeRun. The error messages (posted previously) are from VLC, complaining of connection issues, but the root cause is that the HDHomeRun is failing to send the stream to VLC fast enough. When this happens VLC creates a popup on the desktop 'Communication error,' and discontinues displaying the stream. On the laptop this never happens; VLC plays the stream continuously, for hours as long as I leave it running. The HDHomeRun has two tuners, selectable with the GUI. It doesn't matter which tuner I use, the results are the same. I have removed VLC with 'sudo apt-get remove vlc --purge,' and also renamed ~/.config/vlc, then reinstalled, but it made no difference. Ditto for the HDHomeRun Config apps, both the command line and the GUI versions. Both computers use the same version of VLC with the same auxiliary packages and libraries. Both computers use the 5.3 kernel. I tried running the HDHomeRun GUI config utility from the command line with sudo, which worked, but when I clicked on View to launch VLC to play a channel I got an error message 'VLC cannot be run as root.' Strange! Any ideas are welcome! _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
