Le Potato (AMLOGIC S905X-CC) ISO playback hangs/crashs

diego · March 23, 2019 at 11:04 AM

Dear AMLOGIC Community,

is there a chance to get rid of the annoying ISO playback crashs/hungs? Details see:

["Le Potato", LE 9.0.1] System crashs when playing a Full-HD/UHD video contained in an ISO independent of the chosen video player

Kind regards

Diego

diego · March 23, 2019 at 12:51 PM

It even happens reproducable with the current test build:

libreelec-lepotato.arm-9.1-nightly-20190315-0fa0712.img.gz

**smp** · March 23, 2019 at 1:39 PM

Use coreelec on this board. LE is currently pretty much broken for Le Potato.

diego · March 23, 2019 at 2:44 PM

smp: thank you for your hint

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LE is currently pretty much broken for Le Potato

What do you mean with it (e.g. the use of the old kernel version 3.14)? I just wonder why current LE images for "Le Potato" (even maintained test builds, see linked test build above) are still offered, although - to your understanding - they are pretty much broken.

All the other features seem to work well - it's just the video playback in case the video is embedded in an ISO container.

But I'll switch to CoreELEC and give it a try!

**smp** · March 23, 2019 at 5:04 PM

This serious issue is still present in LE images. Not sure if this will affect the ISO playback but I guess it's possible.

Also, during my testing of LE 9.0.1 on Le Potato I had major issues (massive stuttering) with live TV (DVB-S). Not sure if this is specific to Le Potato (I don't have any other Amlogic devices) but don't have this issue in CE.

Sholander · March 23, 2019 at 7:10 PM

Quote from smp

Also, during my testing of LE 9.0.1 on Le Potato I had major issues (massive stuttering) with live TV (DVB-S). Not sure if this is specific to Le Potato (I don't have any other Amlogic devices) but don't have this issue in CE.

How can it be Le Potato issue, when there is no issue on CE?

diego · March 23, 2019 at 10:40 PM

smp Indeed, the problem has completely gone after having switched to CoreELEC 9.0.1 for the "Le Potato" Single-Board-Computer! This means, no system hang/freeze/crash anymore during playback of a video nested in an ISO file.

Thanx for the important hint and your help!

Do you know whether the LibreELEC community is going to fix this problem that might affect the ISO playback as well sustainably, e.g. by integrating a patched bootloader version? There seems to be a solution available - at least the CoreELEC guys have solved it already.