TVNZ+ streaming quality

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Pom4747

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#318855 26-Feb-2025 20:51

Has anyone noticed that the stream from TVNZ+ has been of a lower quality over the last few weeks, along with more frequent buffering, sometimes taking more than a minute to restart. I am confident is is not at my end as Netflix and Sky quality is unchanged. Download speed of 600 Mbps

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#3348196 26-Feb-2025 20:58

No.

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#3348198 26-Feb-2025 21:01

No. Can't say I've ever seen buffering on TVNZ+ and use it regularly.

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MurrayM

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#3348289 27-Feb-2025 09:06

Nope, I haven't experienced any buffering lately and no drop in quality.

DMWellington

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#3348305 27-Feb-2025 10:04

Perfect stream here with Apple TV and Quic 300 plan.

dclegg

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#3348338 27-Feb-2025 11:23

Yep, definitely seeing the same here. We were streaming a show last night (Travel Guides) which had very poor resolution, and buffering is common. All other streaming services perform like a champ, with 4K resolution achievable where supported.

tstone

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#3348339 27-Feb-2025 11:24

No, all good here in the North shore...

GarryP

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#3348340 27-Feb-2025 11:26

Yes. In Chch and using Apple TV for streaming.

Had a couple of instances of long buffering so gave up and switched to Netflix which was fine. TVNZ worked ok the next day.

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#3348454 27-Feb-2025 17:42

When I get buffering on overseas IPTV streams, switching to a VPN nearly always fixes it.

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Hemi88

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#3348485 27-Feb-2025 21:23

I’ve been having buffer issues around 8-10pm last couple nights all other times it’s working fine the weird thing is if I try safari it works perfect and ps5 works fine Apple TV iPad and iPhone seem to take awhile to play on spark

Hemi88

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#3354715 18-Mar-2025 01:52

The buffering/not playing is still happening for me I don’t know how long it’s been going on for at night we normally watch on Apple TV that has a custom dns and been working but if I try iPhone/ipad app with sparks default dns there is problems with programs that are half way through also tried twitter for first time in over a month and it wont load or very slow if I use private relay or cloud fare dns all works fine the PlayStation and Panasonic tv tvnz app work perfectly on sparks dns they are the only non Apple devices only happens between 8-10:30pm all other time it works

Still works fine if I use safari is anyone else have same problem with Apple devices on spark broadband

mattwnz

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#3354716 18-Mar-2025 02:00

I have noticed that the TVNZ + app causes android TV on Sony TV to completely freeze up.

BlakJak

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#3358818 30-Mar-2025 22:10

TVNZ App on our TV (Panasonic, but it's a rebrand of something) has gotten to the point of unwatchability now. I assume it's a processing/codec issue as we don't have the same problems (or at least, the same severity) on our Chromecast. But yeah, watching TVNZ on our living room TV is basically not a thing anymore.

I assume this is a recurrent issue through a combination of borderline-spec TV's and challenges around app efficiency.
The TV has very occasional struggles with Neon and Prime as well but both are quite watchable, as is Disney+ (which I've got suspended right now). Netflix is fairly flawless.

So back to it being a TVNZ specific issue.

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farcus

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#3359006 31-Mar-2025 12:18

no issues evident on TVNZ+ on a Google Streamer

openmedia

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#3359479 1-Apr-2025 13:22

Just checked TVNZ+ on our OLED Panasonic using the official Freeview NZ streaming app an no issues with streaming quality. It was definitely better than the SD Satellite feed, but not as good as the Terrestrial HD feed, which is to be expected.

The TVNZ 1 stream is currently coming from https://dz1g25geip0uq.cloudfront.net/master.m3u8

Looking at the stream data there are a range of bitrates available to allow for adaptive streaming

Video --vid=1 (h264 480x270 25.000fps) (641 kbps)
Video --vid=2 (h264 640x360 25.000fps) (1037 kbps)
Video --vid=3 (h264 960x540 25.000fps) (1565 kbps)
Video --vid=4 (h264 1024x576 25.000fps) (2093 kbps)
(+) Video --vid=5 (h264 1280x720 25.000fps) (3281 kbps)
Audio --aid=1 (aac 2ch 48000Hz) (641 kbps)
Audio --aid=2 (aac 2ch 48000Hz) (1037 kbps)
Audio --aid=3 (aac 2ch 48000Hz) (1565 kbps)
Audio --aid=4 (aac 2ch 48000Hz) (2093 kbps)
(+) Audio --aid=5 (aac 2ch 48000Hz) (3281 kbps)

@BlakJak - try out the URL above in VLC to see if you're getting the highest quality stream

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#3360852 4-Apr-2025 18:14

Stream URL must've changed. 404

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