Kodi crashes when playing a MPEG2 DVB Stream

1st Official Post

    Hello,

    I recently upgraded my htpc to Libreelec 8.95 and after a while i got my tvheadend tv-backend running again.

    In Germany HD channels get encoded with MPEG4 and SD channels with MPEG2.

    After my upgrade i was only able to watch HD channels, on SD channels the player instantly crashed.

    I also tried to watch the SD channels from other devices like my mobile, which worked surprisingly.

    So I concluded that it's not the fault of tvheadends backend but of the player.

    Eventually i decided to see what happens if i disable the hardware acceleration, which was enabled by default for MPEG2.

    And well it worked again.

    So I'm not sure if hardware acceleration was enabled in Kodi 8 by default, but if yes there must be some bug.

    If not, then the detection whether a hardware supports MPEG2 encoded streams or not doesn't seem to work well.

    Here is my crash log: http://ix.io/1zf5

    And here is the regular log: http://ix.io/1zf3

    • Official Post

    As per forum rules, please get rid of all the superrepo, f4mproxy and f4mtester piracy crap and related modules first, before asking for support.

    Plenty of such 3rd party add-ons are known to make Kodi's core functionality unstable