audio crashes and bad playback from episodes from season-packed streams. after update from LE9

carsten888 · September 3, 2023 at 10:14 AM

Since I updated from LE9

- audio crashes randomly. First a loud KRRRK then a dwindeling computer sound like an retro-games gameover tune. Then no sound. May have to reboot 2-3 times before sound is back.

- bad playback from episodes which are packed as a season. Image is skipping a few seconds each time. These are from streams which previously worked fine.

- LE starts up real slow. The button animations are legging.

LE 11.0.3

kodi 20,2

rpi 2.arm

rp3

**Da Flex** · September 4, 2023 at 3:40 AM

Did you installed from scratch?

carsten888 · September 4, 2023 at 5:39 PM

LE9 was installed from scatch. Long time ago.

**Da Flex** · September 4, 2023 at 5:55 PM

Nah, you can't update from LE 9 to LE 10+, because it generates errors. You have to install LE 10+ from scratch instead.

carsten888 · September 5, 2023 at 6:57 PM

I installed LE9 from scratch and all is working wonderfull again.

**Da Flex** · September 6, 2023 at 10:03 PM

Quote from carsten888

I installed LE9 from scratch and all is working wonderfull again.

Quote from Da Flex

You have to install LE 10+ from scratch instead.

carsten888 · September 7, 2023 at 11:02 AM

I also did a sd card with a fresh install of LE11. So far so good. No crashes yet and plays from packed seasons. So this issue probably was about a conflict of addons or the update did not go so well.

LE11 is soo slow.

LE9 boots within 10 seconds. LE11 takes 47 seconds to boot. Is that normal?

both same type of 8gb sd card. On the same raspberry 3.

**chewitt** · September 7, 2023 at 3:25 PM

It's a while since I played with an RPi3 but something around 10s is normal for most of ARM boards we support.

**Da Flex** · September 7, 2023 at 6:59 PM

We have similar case here: Click! In short: Very few TV's produce a very long CEC initialization time since LE 10+. No solution so far.

carsten888 · September 9, 2023 at 3:46 PM

Issue is back!

In the fresh installed LE11. Bad playback/crashes from a episode of a packed-season stream (payed). I tried also with a fresh LE10, same thing. Some play fine, some keep crashing. I have tested the exact same packed episode-streams in LE9-10 and 11. All fine in LE9. In LE10 and LE11 the sound of the stream starts playing with the loading screen still going untill it crashes. I tested another exact same packaged episode which worked just fine in all 3 versions. (same streams and hardware)

I also tested a fresh LE10 which also takes 47sec to boot.

**Da Flex** · September 9, 2023 at 6:23 PM

Please provide a full debug log.

How to post a log (wiki)

1. Enable debugging in Settings>System Settings>Logging
2. Restart Kodi
3. Replicate the problem
4. Generate a log URL (do not post/upload logs to the forum)

use "Settings > LibreELEC > System > Paste system logs" or run "pastekodi" over SSH, then post the URL link

carsten888 · September 10, 2023 at 8:42 AM

http://ix.io/4Fuf

carsten888 · September 11, 2023 at 8:15 AM

I came across this:

https://wiki.libreelec.tv/hardware/raspberry-pi

Quote

This means HEVC support on Raspberry Pi 4 and 400 hardware is excellent as these devices support native HEVC hardware decoding,..., but playback on older Pi 01/2/3 devices will be challenging as FFMpeg software decoding is no longer optimised for Pi hardware, and users can expect SD media support only, not HD (720p and 1080p) support as seen with older LibreELEC releases.

so could be that stream was of a encoding type which pi 3 is struggling with.

So for now I will stick to LE9 on pi3.

**Da Flex** · September 11, 2023 at 3:40 PM

Quote from carsten888

http://ix.io/4Fuf

Not a log.