No more video playback from own films and series

1st Official Post

    Hi,

    Recently I am no longer able to play any
    videos.

    Mostly they show the same playback as they were trying to playback a damaged contrainor (green screen with some colored bands. Sometimes partly sound (stuttering bits though).

    I've tried to playback some video's on a laptop and they work fine.

    Even films that worked before are now no longer working.

    A streaming service of our public TV seem to be working.

    I re-installed from scratch and with no avail.

    I'm working on a RPi4 and I'm connected to the NAS over wifi (ps: music seems to work fine). Version is 9.2.6

    Thanks in advance for the help.

    I have the same symptoms.

    I can play low resolution videos, but get scrambled video for 1080p.

    The GUI still works during the scrambled playback, but clicking STOP freezes the display. I can still SSH to the Rpi4 and I have posted the debug log -

    http://ix.io/2PZi

    Hope someone can help

    JJ

    • Official Post

    Because you can stream music over NAS, and johnjark can play low-res videos, this could be a buffering / streaming speed issue.

    Create this /storage/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml :

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    <advancedsettings version="1.0">
    <cache>
        <memorysize>200000000</memorysize> <!-- 200MB buffer size -->
        <buffermode>4</buffermode> <!-- buffer all network filesystems -->
        <readfactor>8.0</readfactor> <!-- doubles the default readfactor -->
    </cache>
</advancedsettings>

    I have similar symptoms either with video and flac files taken from a NAS connected via ethernet cable (I tried to report this problem in [Raspberry PI4] Can't watch anymore movies).

    I tried your hint with advancedsettings file but without solution: http://ix.io/2QWP here is the log trying to play a flac file.

    I saw many lines with this error:

    Code
    2021-02-26 16:46:27.563 T:2020668272   ERROR: ffmpeg[7870F370]: [flac] invalid coeff precision
2021-02-26 16:46:27.563 T:2020668272   ERROR: ffmpeg[7870F370]: [flac] decode_frame() failed
2021-02-26 16:46:27.573 T:2020668272   DEBUG: ffmpeg[7870F370]: [NULL] sample/frame number mismatch in adjacent frames
2021-02-26 16:46:27.574 T:2020668272   DEBUG: ffmpeg[7870F370]: [NULL] crc check failed from offset 0 (frame 1967) to 3037 (frame 1967)
2021-02-26 16:46:27.574 T:2020668272   ERROR: ffmpeg[7870F370]: [flac] invalid residual
2021-02-26 16:46:27.574 T:2020668272   ERROR: ffmpeg[7870F370]: [flac] decode_frame() failed

    Mp3 files is working fine

    Hi Flex,

    Normal playback seems to be working just fine with these settings. That's already nice, so we can watch our films and series again.

    However, if I scroll in the timelime the problem returns and if I then stop the playback, kodi seems to get stuck (also de HUD of de logging no longer changes. The SSH terminal does remain responsive though

    If I reboot thru SSH it accepts the command immidiatly in the terminal, but does nothing for a while and then after a while suddenly does reboot.

    I also tried enlarging the buffer to 600000000, with no avail.

    Hi Flex,

    I've updated, but now there are also problems with low res movies (480 SD) in mp4

    Some HD can play partially, but some just stops with the remark that I have to check the log.

    I can honestly not make a lot of sense of it.

    Here is the new log: http://ix.io/2RjJ

    Hi Flex,

    Tried ... and failed.

    There does seem to be a problem related to the codecs.

    All movies with h264 seem to work, however the one I had with H265 stopped before the playback even started and the others seem to showup as 'MPEG4' without a specific codec in the infos on the bottom of the interface. Those last ones play back a while, but quite broken, with only the keyframes showing up correctly and the changes showing as broken.