Kodi freezes when playing videos and restarts after a while

  • I'm having trouble playing videos, sometimes it takes a lot of time to start the playback and sometimes it chops and stays frozen. The only option I have is unplug it and plug it back again. I'm seeing various errors but don't know how to read them to find a solution.

    Here's the debug log. Thanks!!

  • RPi3 boards cannot hardware decode HEVC media so the stolen 720p media being played is probably at or beyond the limits of CPU decoding without overclocking being used to increase CPU capabilities; which needs a stronger PSU and proper cooling.

    There are also a bunch of errors in the system log related to the mmc0 device. Either the SD card is starting to fail, or this is another symptom of an insufficient PSU and the system being maxed out.

    There are also errors from Hyperion which won't work unless you're using an external grabber as the modern video pipeline used since LE10 doesn't support the software grabber methods used in older LE/RPiOS codebases.

    So looks like an under-spec tool failing at the task being asked of it, that probably needs a spring clean to clear old config.