Radio streams playback freezes LibreELEC/Kodi

1st Official Post

    Hi all,

    Over the past several months, I've been constantly running into radio streams playback freezes with LibreELEC/Kodi. I believe it has been happening over the last few 3-4 versions of LibreELEC, starting with Kodi 17/LibreELEC 8. I am currently on LibreELEC (official): 9.2.0 / Kodi (18.5 Git:18.5-Leia).

    It happens with all radio plugins, including Radio (plugin.audio.radio_de), TuneIn and Shoutcast2.

    Most radio stations hang, sometimes the same station hangs or works. 99% of the time I get freezes and need to reboot..

    I have noticed these older reports

    #17210 (Kodi freezes at opening internet radio statio stream) – Kodi - TRAC

    [LE 7.90.009 and 010] Kodi freezes at opening a netradio stream

    However, according to them, it should have been fixed by now.

    I have enabled debugging and recorded the attached log.

    Is anyone else experiencing this? Any thoughts/suggestions?

    Thanks a lot!

    • Official Post

    2020-01-22 13:17:24.800 T:140269620181120 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/

    2020-01-22 13:17:24.805 T:140269620181120 DEBUG: CSkinSettings: no <skinsettings> tag found

    2020-01-22 12:49:05.956 T:140520183604992 DEBUG: LIRC: - NEW 160 0 KEY_OK devinput (KEY_OK)

    2020-01-22 12:49:05.957 T:140520192002176 DEBUG: HandleKey: 11 (0x0b, obc244) pressed, action is Select

    You have several daylight saving time corrections in Germany?! :)

    Also, please don't edit/cut/censor your kodi.log file, all information can be useful.

    As far as the problem goes, I don't think that Kodi 18.6, which has just been released, has a specific fix for it. Team Kodi is currently running a skeleton crew where developers are concerned. Sorry.

    LibreELEC 9.2.1 or 9.3.0 (whatever version bump it is going to be), should be up in the coming week(s).

    I only removed superfluous, redundant and irrelevant debug entries from a VPN plugin. Nothing else

    Thanks for the detail!

    Even if it is not being fixed (yet), is the root cause known at least? Since it happens in all radio plugins, Radio (plugin.audio.radio_de), TuneIn and Shoutcast2, it must be an issue in some common streaming playback library, I assume.