Okay...the Kodi subreddit sent me to the Kodi addon subreddit, the Kodi addon subreddit sent me here...maybe someone here will finally have an answer for me.
I usually have a stream from ArconaiTV going on my TV 24/7 as background noise and something to look at in my peripheral vision as I work on things and while I sleep. Annoyingly they like to completely stop playback every few hours, which I'm assuming has to do with the way these things are streamed, how they kind of play in "chunks". I don't remember at all what it's technically called or how it works but that's a dumbed down version of it, these streams play media in "chunks", so I'm assuming that's why the stream likes to randomly stop itself, because the current chunk ends. I'm sure some other streams work this way too.
Is there any way to prevent this? I really prefer to have it on while I sleep because I get anxious sleeping without background noise, so it's annoying to be jolted awake by it ending and having to fumble around half asleep for my phone or controller to turn it back on. I thought maybe setting it to repeat would work but it did not.
Any ideas?
I'm sorry I explained this all so poorly, I really don't know the technical term for any of this or remember exactly how it works so I tried to be as succinct as possible with what I could recall. Hopefully someone understand what I'm saying and knows a solution.
I'm playing this via the Kodi addon, via whatever the latest version of Leia is on Windows 10, if that makes a difference.
I'm betting that it's a free IPTV service, and they don't have the bandwidth to stream all day to people who aren't watching, so every few hours the stream times out. Those who are actually watching would restart it, everyone else wouldn't even notice
I'm not familiar with it at all but it's possible if you can queue up the channel in Kodi (long press select/enter,, queue item), go to the queue setting and turn Repeat from Off to All, which will have Kodi continuously restart the video