Asus Chromebox no video seen on playback?

cross · March 11, 2017 at 5:10 PM

Having recently upgraded my Asus Chrombox from OpenELEC to LibreELEC 8.0.0 with Kodi 17.0, I find that I don't see video playback any more.

Specifically, after I seemed to get the U/I all working and displaying correctly, tweaking numerous settings around, I find that when I start to play a video (Movie, TV show, I've tried a few, so I assume it's not based on the specifics of a video file [format]), the play icon appears in the U/I, but nothing else appears. I can head the sound of the video, at least for quite a number of seconds worth, then the audio seems to stop. I can interact successfully with the U/I, stop the video, etc. But I never _see_ it.

This is likely specific to my chrome box, so let me know if I should try a different forum... I've asked in the Kobi forums too, but I know know where the problem lies, so asking here as well. Thanks...
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Hmm. Interesting additional detail. I hooked up a mouse to the box, largely to make adjusting settings a little easier. After having a mouse attached, I find that I can _click_ on the play icon and program/movie name near the upper right of the screen, and it attempts to display the video. But, it's not succeeding. I can't see anything but black, and after a few seconds (8?) it stops trying to play, then audio stops, and there are echoes of mouse cursor motion that get stuck in the video play area.

Is this a problem with settings on the video device? I followed the advice I found at Chromebox - Official Kodi Wiki to set things, up, and that was mostly how they were already set.

Let me know if you have any thoughts. Thanks.

Speaker Bass · March 11, 2017 at 9:32 PM

Same thing happened to me the other day. 'Reset LibreELEC to defaults' is the only way

First create a backup of your Kodi settings in LibreELEC (it will be stored in /storage/backups)

Copy the back up from your Chromebox to another device

'Reset LibreELEC to defaults' HARD RESET

after boot copy your back up to the chromebox /storage/backups

restore from backup

and you're back in business

cross · March 12, 2017 at 11:39 AM

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Same thing happened to me the other day. 'Reset LibreELEC to defaults' is the only way

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Thanks! That did the trick. I ended up making and retrieving the backup off of the system, but not reloading it. I've just kept it for reference later, if I remember that I have it. I entered in the remote volumes I had set up, once-over the other config and settings, and am running like that. Videos now play as expected.

I wonder why that happened, and what exactly happened? Love to hear if anyone has root-cause thoughts, but I no longer need to solve the problem for my specific case.