Some video stop playing after about 10min

Bobby · July 12, 2019 at 9:41 PM

Hello all,

I have just updated my Kodi installation: the one I'm running now is a fresh install from LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-9.0.2.img.gz on a RPi 3+.

I am experiencing some video problems with only some videos: the video starts playing for about 10 minutes, and after that, it stops and I need to resume it to keep watching.
When I tail -f the log file (tail -f /storage/.kodi/temp/kodi.log), the following appears at the exact same moment the video stops:

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2019-07-12 22:24:32.343 T:1504691056  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
2019-07-12 22:24:32.343 T:1504691056  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: eof, waiting for queues to empty
2019-07-12 22:24:32.344 T:1504691056  NOTICE: Closing stream player 1
2019-07-12 22:24:32.344 T:1504691056  NOTICE: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::WaitUntilEmpty
2019-07-12 22:24:32.345 T:1504691056  NOTICE: Waiting for audio thread to exit
2019-07-12 22:24:32.345 T:1443873648   ERROR: Got MSGQ_ABORT or MSGO_IS_ERROR return true
2019-07-12 22:24:32.345 T:1443873648  NOTICE: thread end: CVideoPlayerAudio::OnExit()
2019-07-12 22:24:32.345 T:1504691056  NOTICE: Closing audio device
2019-07-12 22:24:32.727 T:1504691056  NOTICE: Deleting audio codec
2019-07-12 22:24:32.727 T:1504691056  NOTICE: Closing stream player 2
2019-07-12 22:24:32.727 T:1504691056  NOTICE: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::WaitUntilEmpty
2019-07-12 22:24:32.727 T:1504691056  NOTICE: waiting for video thread to exit
2019-07-12 22:24:32.727 T:1556288368   ERROR: Got MSGQ_ABORT or MSGO_IS_ERROR return true
2019-07-12 22:24:32.727 T:1556288368  NOTICE: thread end: video_thread
2019-07-12 22:24:32.728 T:1504691056  NOTICE: deleting video codec
2019-07-12 22:24:33.111 T:1937496464  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
2019-07-12 22:24:33.144 T:1937496464  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
2019-07-12 22:24:33.144 T:1937496464  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
2019-07-12 22:24:33.144 T:1937496464  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
2019-07-12 22:24:33.144 T:1937496464  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
2019-07-12 22:24:33.144 T:1937496464  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting

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Any idea what it can be?

Thanks!

B.R.

DRAGO4k · July 13, 2019 at 12:20 PM

Search · got msgq_abort or msgo_is_error return true · GitHub

Also a dead giveaway is: 2019-07-12 22:24:32.343 T:1504691056 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: eof
The system reaches the end of the file

Error is triggered by a number of reasons. and because it happens with only some videos it is most likely that the videos are damaged somehow and the Kodi player can't ignore the issue. This is a KODI issue at this point, unless there is some information pointing to Libreelec as the generator of this issue, you might find more help at KODI's forums.

cappsie · March 6, 2026 at 11:34 PM

Hi,

I'm struggling to find the answer to this one. It only happens with one file, and I appreciate my version of Kodi is ancient, but that's because of the issues of not getting the sound to work on YouTube. (See here: YouTube history).

Details:
Raspberry Pi 4 - Linux Pi 5.10.110 #1 SMP Sat Jan 7 12:15:32 UTC 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux
Kodi (19.5 (19.5.0) Git:19.5-Matrix Media Center Kodi)

The working video file generated this log:

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INFO <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "@"
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "sysdefault"
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S24NE3
INFO <general>: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: smb://192.168.1.201:445/TV_Shows/Henry Danger/S05E01 - Henry's Birthday.mp4
INFO <general>: Creating InputStream
INFO <general>: Creating Demuxer
INFO <general>: Opening stream: 0 source: 256
INFO <general>: Creating video codec with codec id: 27
INFO <general>: CDVDVideoCodecDRMPRIME::Open - using decoder V4L2 mem2mem H.264 decoder wrapper
INFO <general>: Creating video thread
INFO <general>: running thread: video_thread
INFO <general>: Opening stream: 1 source: 256
INFO <general>: Finding audio codec for: 86018
INFO <general>: CDVDAudioCodecFFmpeg::Open() Successful opened audio decoder aac
INFO <general>: Creating audio thread
INFO <general>: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process()
INFO <general>: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86018, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through)
INFO <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "@"
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "sysdefault"
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S24NE3
INFO <general>: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
INFO <general>: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
INFO <general>: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
INFO <general>: Closing stream player 1
INFO <general>: Waiting for audio thread to exit
INFO <general>: thread end: CVideoPlayerAudio::OnExit()
INFO <general>: Closing audio device
INFO <general>: Deleting audio codec
INFO <general>: Closing stream player 2
INFO <general>: waiting for video thread to exit
INFO <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
WARNING <general>: OutputPicture - timeout waiting for buffer
INFO <general>: thread end: video_thread
INFO <general>: deleting video codec
INFO <general>: Deleting settings information for files smb://192.168.1.201:445/TV_Shows/Henry Danger/S05E01 - Henry's Birthday.mp4
INFO <general>: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
INFO <general>: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
INFO <general>: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
INFO <general>: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "@"
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "sysdefault"
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S24NE3

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The failing/failed file generated this log:

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INFO <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "@"
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "sysdefault"
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S24NE3
INFO <general>: Loading skin file: VideoFullScreen.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
INFO <general>: Loading skin file: VideoOSD.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
INFO <general>: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
INFO <general>: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
INFO <general>: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
INFO <general>: Closing stream player 1
INFO <general>: Waiting for audio thread to exit
INFO <general>: thread end: CVideoPlayerAudio::OnExit()
INFO <general>: Closing audio device
INFO <general>: Deleting audio codec
INFO <general>: Closing stream player 2
INFO <general>: waiting for video thread to exit
INFO <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
ERROR <general>: Got MSGQ_ABORT or MSGO_IS_ERROR return true
INFO <general>: thread end: video_thread
INFO <general>: deleting video codec
INFO <general>: Deleting settings information for files smb://192.168.1.201:445/TV_Shows/Henry Danger/S05E02 - Whistlin' Susie.mp4
INFO <general>: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
INFO <general>: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
INFO <general>: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
INFO <general>: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "@"
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "sysdefault"
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats
INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S24NE3

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I was considering perhaps re-encoding the video file into a different format to see if that works, but it seems a clumsy fix.

Would appreciate any advice.

Thanks!

p.s.

I ran the same movie on my Mac using the Kodi app and it was fine:

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2026-03-06 23:44:17.437 T:1298137    info <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
2026-03-06 23:44:17.538 T:1298085    info <general>: GL: Using CVBREF render method
2026-03-06 23:44:17.538 T:1298085    info <general>: GL: Selecting YUV 2 RGB shader
2026-03-06 23:44:17.540 T:1298085    info <general>: Using GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE
2026-03-06 23:44:17.541 T:1298085    info <general>: GL: Using CVBREF render method
2026-03-06 23:44:17.541 T:1298085    info <general>: GL: Selecting YUV 2 RGB shader
2026-03-06 23:44:17.601 T:1298137    info <general>: virtual bool CAESinkDARWINOSX::Initialize(AEAudioFormat &, std::string &): Opening default device MacBook Pro Speakers
2026-03-06 23:44:17.627 T:1298080    info <general>: CCoreAudioStream::HardwareStreamListener: Hardware physical format changed to [lpcm] Mixable Interleaved 2 Channel 32-bit Floating Point LE (48000Hz)
2026-03-06 23:44:17.627 T:1298080    info <general>: CCoreAudioStream::HardwareStreamListener: Hardware virtual format changed to [lpcm] Mixable Interleaved 2 Channel 32-bit Floating Point LE (48000Hz)
2026-03-06 23:44:17.653 T:1298085    info <general>: Loading skin file: VideoFullScreen.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
2026-03-06 23:44:17.995 T:1298803    info <general>: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::CDropControl: calculated diff time: 41708
2026-03-06 23:44:26.318 T:1298085    info <general>: Loading skin file: VideoOSD.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
2026-03-06 23:44:27.951 T:1298085    info <general>: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
2026-03-06 23:44:27.951 T:1298085    info <general>: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
2026-03-06 23:44:27.963 T:1298800    info <general>: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
2026-03-06 23:44:27.963 T:1298800    info <general>: Closing stream player 1
2026-03-06 23:44:27.963 T:1298800    info <general>: Waiting for audio thread to exit
2026-03-06 23:44:27.981 T:1298804    info <general>: thread end: CVideoPlayerAudio::OnExit()
2026-03-06 23:44:27.981 T:1298800    info <general>: Closing audio device
2026-03-06 23:44:27.992 T:1298137    info <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
2026-03-06 23:44:27.992 T:1298800    info <general>: Deleting audio codec
2026-03-06 23:44:27.992 T:1298800    info <general>: Closing stream player 2
2026-03-06 23:44:27.992 T:1298800    info <general>: waiting for video thread to exit
2026-03-06 23:44:27.993 T:1298803 warning <general>: OutputPicture - timeout waiting for buffer
2026-03-06 23:44:27.993 T:1298803    info <general>: thread end: video_thread
2026-03-06 23:44:27.994 T:1298800    info <general>: deleting video codec
2026-03-06 23:44:28.006 T:1298189    info <general>: Deleting settings information for files smb://192.168.1.201/TV_Shows/Henry Danger/S05E02 - Whistlin' Susie.mp4
2026-03-06 23:44:28.011 T:1298085    info <general>: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
2026-03-06 23:44:28.011 T:1298085    info <general>: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
2026-03-06 23:44:28.011 T:1298085    info <general>: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
2026-03-06 23:44:28.011 T:1298085    info <general>: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
2026-03-06 23:44:28.034 T:1298855 warning <general>: DARWINOSX: underflow (1352 vs 4096 bytes)
2026-03-06 23:44:28.258 T:1298137    info <general>: virtual bool CAESinkDARWINOSX::Initialize(AEAudioFormat &, std::string &): Opening default device MacBook Pro Speakers

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nosen · March 7, 2026 at 12:05 PM Best Answer

Sounds like the affected video file is slightly broken. The RPi4 uses hardware decoding, which is much stricter about h264 correctness than your mac (which uses software decoding). I'd recommend you to remux the problematic file.

cappsie · March 7, 2026 at 2:31 PM

Quote from nosen

Sounds like the affected video file is slightly broken. The RPi4 uses hardware decoding, which is much stricter about h264 correctness than your mac (which uses software decoding). I'd recommend you to remux the problematic file.

Thanks, nosen. I'll give that a try.