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[Bribbri]

Good morning,

 

I had install OpenPLI 6.2 on my Zgemma H2 and it work great.

 

I had install OpenVPN with the files privided by my supplyer and i think it works, because i don't receive any error messages and in the information panel i have the ip associated to Tun0.

 

My problem is that the HD channels (1920) of my IPTV provider don't works well, continuos freeze. the channels with less resoluton works well.

 

I use Extplayer3 instees of gstreamer.

Maybe a buffering problem, can I increase the buffering size?

 

Maybe is the hardware, cpu power or resources.

 

Any ideas?

 

It's not a line problem because I have also an android box with OpenVPN and IPTV Player with the same provider and it works great. It works also on PC.

 

Thank you

 

[littlesat]

Consult your (illegal) iptv provider.... maybe their streams are not realty-show compatible with your box... which box did you use! Could be hevc the h2 does not support... if so it’s indeed the hardware that do not that type of stream...

Edited by littlesat, 9 October 2018 - 07:24.

[Bribbri]

The h2 support the stream because if I disable OpenVPN, also the 1920 channels works.

[littlesat]

Could also be the box is too slow to perform the bandwith required via VPN.... or the VPN is too slow in bandwidth

Edited by littlesat, 9 October 2018 - 09:00.

[mimisiku]

Why buy an STB if only IPTV is used? Buy an IPTV only box....

[Pr2]

Zgemma H2 is a very low end box I doubt that it can handle properly IPTV through a VPN.

[WanWizard]

Not to mention the 30% protocol overhead you have with a VPN.

[Bribbri]

Why buy an STB if only IPTV is used? Buy an IPTV only box....

 

Because I don't use IPTV only

[Bribbri]

Zgemma H2 is a very low end box I doubt that it can handle properly IPTV through a VPN.

 

In fact, this is my fear

[Bribbri]

Not to mention the 30% protocol overhead you have with a VPN.

 

I'm not an expert, can You explain me better?

[Dimmie]

When it's a legal IPTV provider there's no need to use VPN.

[WanWizard]

I'm not an expert, can You explain me better?

 

A VPN is a tunnelling protocol. which simply said puts an IP packet inside another IP packet. So the amount of data you send increases, which in turn may increase latency and jitter (delay and variation in the delay). On top of that, most VPN's use data encryption, so you need processor power to encrypt/decrypt the inner IP packet. This is the main reason why most home routers with VPN capacity only support a few VPN's at low throughput speeds.

 

The CPU component in the SoC (the chip than does everything in an STB) is originally only designed to display the GUI of the box, so it doesn't have much computing power, especially on the cheap low-end models. The new high-end ARM CPU's are better.

[mimisiku]

For this reason a VPN capable modem/router is preferred. I use a Fritz!Box 7360 and 7581 for this and works satisfactory for me.

[WanWizard]

VPN and Fritz... Brrr....

[Bribbri]

 

I'm not an expert, can You explain me better?

 

A VPN is a tunnelling protocol. which simply said puts an IP packet inside another IP packet. So the amount of data you send increases, which in turn may increase latency and jitter (delay and variation in the delay). On top of that, most VPN's use data encryption, so you need processor power to encrypt/decrypt the inner IP packet. This is the main reason why most home routers with VPN capacity only support a few VPN's at low throughput speeds.

 

The CPU component in the SoC (the chip than does everything in an STB) is originally only designed to display the GUI of the box, so it doesn't have much computing power, especially on the cheap low-end models. The new high-end ARM CPU's are better.

 

 

Your explanation is very clear and easy to understand!

 

Thank you very much!

Edited by Bribbri, 10 October 2018 - 10:18.

[Erik Slagter]

VPN and Fritz... Brrr....

That. And also it actually doesn't reduce the jitter problem in any way.