[x86-64] Kodi stopped working for me....

austinfcfan · March 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM

Not sure what the heck happened as I had Libreelec all working great and then it started having issues last week. I ended up rebuilding my setup and reinstalling libreelec again. Same issue. I'm running the latest version on a gmkteck G3 with 8GB of RAM and a 128GB NVME SSD. Basically whenever I try to watch ANY of my local mkv files (shared out from my local NAS through NFS, I tried with different files, sizes, resolution 4K, 1080p, 480, etc) and they all do the same thing: video starts playing for about 6-8 seconds and then it freezes. I'm able to hit stop and navigate back and then through all the menus fine no issues, but I'm unable to play any of my files. I installed windows on a separate SSD on the same mini PC and installed Kodi manually and I have none of the problems, all the media works and plays great.

Not sure what the issue could be. Turned on debugging. Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

https://paste.libreelec.tv/uncommon-ringtail.log

**chewitt** · April 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM

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2025-03-31 21:27:16.485 T:1163    debug <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - trying to open device ALSA:hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
2025-03-31 21:27:16.485 T:1163     info <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0"
2025-03-31 21:27:16.486 T:1163     info <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0,AES0=0x04,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x00,AES3=0x00"
2025-03-31 21:27:16.486 T:1163     info <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats
2025-03-31 21:27:16.486 T:1163     info <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S32NE
2025-03-31 21:27:16.486 T:1163    debug <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Request: periodSize 2205, bufferSize 8820
2025-03-31 21:27:16.486 T:1163    debug <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Got: periodSize 2205, bufferSize 8820
2025-03-31 21:27:16.486 T:1163    debug <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Setting timeout to 200 ms
2025-03-31 21:27:16.486 T:1163    debug <general>: CAESinkALSA::GetChannelLayout - Input Channel Count: 2 Output Channel Count: 2
2025-03-31 21:27:16.486 T:1163    debug <general>: CAESinkALSA::GetChannelLayout - Requested Layout: FL, FR
2025-03-31 21:27:16.486 T:1163    debug <general>: CAESinkALSA::GetChannelLayout - Got Layout: UNKNOWN1, UNKNOWN1 (ALSA: UNKNOWN UNKNOWN)
2025-03-31 21:27:16.487 T:1163    error <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - no sink was returned
2025-03-31 21:27:16.487 T:1162    error <general>: ActiveAE::InitSink - returned error
2025-03-31 21:27:16.546 T:1260  warning <general>: OutputPicture - timeout waiting for buffer
2025-03-31 21:27:16.987 T:1163     info <general>: Skipped 6 duplicate messages..

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The initial file played (Cosmos s01e11) seems to evaluate/read from NFS storage okay but Kodi then ends up repeatedly attempting to setup the audio output sink and never succeeding with content like this ^

The connected HDMI device is a monitor that only supports 1920x1080@60? - Does it have speakers? - It's rather unusual to see no ELD data (from EDID on the HDMI connection) returning info on speaker placement options:

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2025-03-31 21:26:34.536 T:1162    debug <general>: CAESinkALSA - HDMI device "hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0" may be unconnected (no ELD data)
2025-03-31 21:26:34.537 T:1162    debug <general>: CAESinkALSA - HDMI device "hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=1" may be unconnected (no ELD data)
2025-03-31 21:26:34.538 T:1162    debug <general>: CAESinkALSA - HDMI device "hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=2" may be unconnected (no ELD data)
2025-03-31 21:26:34.538 T:1162    debug <general>: CAESinkALSA - HDMI device "hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=3" may be unconnected (no ELD data)
2025-03-31 21:26:34.556 T:1162     info <general>: CAESinkALSA - No playback configurations available for device "surround21:CARD=HID,DEV=0"

The problem smells like bad/missing EDID data on the HDMI connection so I'd suggest experimenting with different HDMI ports on both ends, different HDMI cables, etc. - You can also update to an LE13 nightly but I rather doubt this is a software issue.

austinfcfan · April 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Thanks so much for your response. You are absolutely right, I was trying to troubleshoot the issue on a PC monitor with no hdmi sound input. I went back and plugged it back into my TV and I had no issues at all playing back my media. No more halting or crashing. I don't know what the original problem was with the videos stopping and the system crashing, however it looks like my reloading of libreelec fixed it. Thanks for the help, looks like whatever the issue was is resolved now.

[x86-64] Kodi stopped working for me....

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