No more video playback from own films and series

ponnel · February 18, 2021 at 5:20 PM

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.

**Da Flex** · February 18, 2021 at 5:33 PM Official Post

Activate debugging at GUI (HUD will appear on top), try to start a video, login by SSH and call pastekodi. Post the resulting link here.

johnjark · February 19, 2021 at 6:12 PM

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

ponnel · February 23, 2021 at 5:48 PM

Quote from Da Flex

Activate debugging at GUI (HUD will appear on top), try to start a video, login by SSH and call pastekodi. Post the resulting link here.

Hi, sorrie for the late feedback, but there were some other urgent things.

here you have the link:

http://ix.io/2Qxn

**Da Flex** · February 25, 2021 at 9:34 AM 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 :

Code

<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>

lnoferin · February 26, 2021 at 3:51 PM

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

ponnel · February 26, 2021 at 3:54 PM

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.

**Da Flex** · February 26, 2021 at 6:00 PM Official Post

ponnel Please try a nightly build to fix those open issues. Download the latest LibreELEC-RPi4 img.gz file, put it into /storage/.update, and reboot to install it. Download location: Click!

ponnel · March 1, 2021 at 4:48 PM

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

**Da Flex** · March 1, 2021 at 5:53 PM Official Post

I haven't found obvious errors at the log. Try both, latest 9.80 and 10.0 nightly.

ponnel · March 2, 2021 at 12:13 PM

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.

**Da Flex** · March 2, 2021 at 2:20 PM Official Post

If you get the same error when playing from USB instead of NAS, then I suggest to write a bug report.

ponnel · March 12, 2021 at 4:31 PM

ok, i'll have a try this weekend. Its been a bussy couple of days

ponnel · March 22, 2021 at 5:21 PM

Hi Flex, you can close this issue.

Somehow it got resolved. I can now play any movie without any trouble.

**Da Flex** · March 22, 2021 at 5:28 PM Official Post