[Raspberry PI4] Can't watch anymore movies

  • I have a raspberry PI4 (4g of ram) connected to my nas via ethernet.

    Until three days ago I could watch movies and listening music fine but now watching movies is not possible because the playing jumps, the images are "mixed" and then it stops.

    In the log I can see this error trying to see a movie .mkv (with mpeg-4)

    Activating the debug log I can see these messages:

    Code
    2021-02-21 14:05:03.420 T:2681721712   DEBUG: CMMALRenderer::Process - debug vsync:269592 queue:0 fps:23.94/23.98/60.00 inc:0.400000 diff:0.000000
    2021-02-21 14:05:03.420 T:2681721712   DEBUG: CMMALRenderer::Process - omvb:(nil) mmal:(nil) vsync:269592 queue:0 diff:-1.000000
    2021-02-21 14:05:03.436 T:2681721712   DEBUG: CMMALRenderer::Process - debug vsync:269593 queue:0 fps:23.94/23.98/60.00 inc:0.400000 diff:-0.600000
    2021-02-21 14:05:03.438 T:3011249488   DEBUG: CMMALRenderer::Update
    2021-02-21 14:05:03.438 T:3011249488   DEBUG: CMMALRenderer::RenderUpdate - MMAL: clear:0 flags:0 alpha:255 source:0 omvb:0xa8f8ca58 mmal:0x78ccb3a8 mflags:0 len:368640 data:0xc enc:I420
    2021-02-21 14:05:03.439 T:1755231088   DEBUG: CDecoder::FFReleaseBuffer buf:0x4b3a610 gmem:0x78b14f80
    2021-02-21 14:05:03.439 T:1755231088   DEBUG: CDecoder::FFGetBuffer 720x304 format:0:0 flags:1
    2021-02-21 14:05:03.439 T:1755231088   DEBUG: CDecoder::FFGetBuffer buf:0x76ce95d0 mmal:0x78ccbeb8 gmem:0x7aac26d0 avbuf:0xaaa45000:0xaaa81000:0xaaa90000
    2021-02-21 14:05:03.440 T:1755231088   DEBUG: CDecoder::Decode - mmal:0x78ccbeb8 buf:0x76ce95d0 old:0xa8f8c750 gpu:0x7aac26d0 720x304 (768x320)
    2021-02-21 14:05:03.440 T:1755231088   DEBUG: CDecoder::GetPicture - mmal:0x78ccbeb8 dts:332.753 pts:332.753 buf:0x76ce95d0 old:0xa8f8c750 gpu:0x7aac26d0 720x304 (768x320)

    I cannot find any other clue.

  • Until three days ago I could watch movies and listening music fine

    Something must have changed during those days. Is the integrity of your video files still okay? They may be on a NAS, but that doesn't mean they are indestructible.

    I'm not a video expert, but there is constant moaning by the video player. And some audio hiccups too. Is every video you play this way? I can tell they are not the most legal of video files, meaning this is not an official video rip. So if the person doing the recode did a horrible job, there is not much that Kodi can fix.