[x86-64] Crash when streaming video using Kodi

    Hello! I've been having some trouble getting Kodi TV working on my Mele compute stick / mini PC and I'm out of ideas. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

    Fun and Useful Facts

    • I am using a Mele Stick computer PCG02 (the old one)
      • The CPU is Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz
      • The GPU is 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation GeminiLake [UHD Graphics 600] (rev 06)
      • It has 8GB of RAM
      • It is x86_64
      • I am running LibreElec (LibreELEC-Generic-legacy.x86_64-12.2.1)
      • The OS was installed manually (downloaded .iso, dd'd to flash drive, booted and ran the installer)
      • The output of uname -a is Linux MediaStreamer 6.16.12 #1 SMP Sat Nov 1 02:47:48 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux
    • The "send crash logs" option immediately after crashing when using jellyfin are here: https://paste.libreelec.tv/allowing-cod.log
    • The "kodi.old.log" after crashing using jellyfin is here: https://justpaste.it/fmm2u
    • The "send crash logs" option while not using jellyfin is here: https://paste.libreelec.tv/sterling-cod.log
    • The "kodi.old.log" after crashing while not using jellyfin is here: https://justpaste.it/n8yb0
    • The forum posting instructions refer to obtaining a backtrace, but I'm not sure how to do this with Libre Elec


    Executive Summary
    I have a Mele Stick Computer and I'm trying to run Kodi on it. I am experiencing frequent crashes, which consistently occur when attempting to stream video and inconsistently when navigating the Kodi menus but not streaming video. The crash sends the computer into a power-off state abruptly. When streaming video this crash is preceded by the video freezing. I originally encountered this problem when streaming with the jellyfin plugin. To troubleshoot, I completed disabled this plugin and instead streamed my movies by accessing their SMB share. The crashes continued in this "clean" configuration - the links described as "not using jellyfin" all refer to this clean configuration (as in, renamed the addons and userdata folders).

    What I've tried so far
    The CPU temperature, as accessed by both the Kodi GUI and accessing the temp zone files directly, do not fluctuate rapidly when these crashes occur, and do not exceed the safe temperatures of 40-60 degrees C.

    The CPU usage, as described by the top program (SSH'd into the device) indicates 100 or above % usage of the CPU. The obvious indicator is that the CPU is insufficient, but I'm hoping to either get confirmation or a different explanation.

    I have also tried this with the LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-12.2.1 image (non - legacy) as well as Linux Mint (linuxmint-22.3-xfce-64bit) with Kodi installed via flatpak. I don't have logs, but encountered similar crashes in those environments. I can go and produce logs for those scenarios if that would be helpful.


    Thank you for any help you can provide!

    If high CPU is a problem the likely cause is that you are software decoding media and not hardware decoding. It's hard to triage that without being able to follow a readable log though. Logs to the JustPaste site have been stripped of line endings and are essentially unreadable. Logs to our paste site are only system logs with no Kodi log.

    Your hardware should work with the Generic (GBM) image; so I would ask that you 'update' to a current LE13 (non-Legacy) image and if that didn't magically fix things, share some readable logs.

    Sorry about that, didn't realize the pastebin had stripped line endings...


    Anyways, after some more investigation I've determined that the crashes aren't exclusive to Kodi. Seems like a problem with the device's power management, so I've returned it and will look for other solutions. Thanks anyway!