[imx6] only ZDF Mediathek movies cause Kodi crash

First of all, thanks a lot for the hard and dedicated work. Libreelec and Kodi are really great. I'm running Libreelec 8.0.1 on a cubox-i4pro (imx6) and have an issues where I hope for your recommendations:

I'm heavily using the different German Mediathek addons. While most, e.g, ARD, Arte ... are working just fine, I do have trouble with playing ZDF movies for quite a while. The issue seems not to be related to the add-on since I did not find other posts on it and since it persists over different add-ons (ZDF Mediathek, ZDF Mediathek 2016, Mediathek).

What happens is: upon starting a movie, the wheel starts spinning, next the play icon appears next to the clock, and then Kodi just restarts (not a full reboot, just Kodi). I checked crash logs and they always show "NOTICE: Let's decode with iMX VPU" as last entry.

Several months back, I was able to watch ZDF movies like any other movies, but maybe since they relaunched their Mediathek this issue persists. Could this be somehow related to the video format?

I would be super happy for any recommendation on how to solve that issue.

Thank you!

Thanks for your quick replies! I will create a log file and upload here, probably on Monday.

Klojum: the sentence was not well formulated, what I meant is that 3 different add-ons developed by different developers show the same issue on the same stream. It must not, but it looks like the reason could be something specific to the stream.

I just created a logfile: KbVi

I'm grateful for any hint to solve the problem.

Thanks and
best wishes

Hi,

It would be great if you could take a quick look at my issue. I suspect that a certain video encoding and/or meta-data are responsible for the Kodi crash. If I knew the reason, I might be able to retrieve the video in a different format ...

thanks and
best wishes

Dear bartimausi,

That was exactly the hint I was looking for. The other add-ons (ZDF Mediathek, ZDF Mediathek 2016, Unithek) don't have an option to set the desired quality anymore. However, I was lucky with "Mediathek" and the new add-on that you suggested (Mediathek direkt). They work like a charm in "high quality", but crash Kodi in "HD quality".

--> I wonder if we should file a bug on this? If yes, is this something for LibreElec or for Kodi directly?

One more thing:
How do you use these add-ons? Do you find your shows, movies ... the traditional way (tv program...)? What I really like about the ones that don't work anymore is that they offer a recommender (most viewed -- Meistgesehen) that shows you what others are watching. The two add-ons that remain don't offer this. Contrary, they offer access to all the stations in parallel and a unified textual search, which makes it super hard to discover something interesting for me. -- Do you have some "guide" that helps you in finding what you like to watch. (For quite a while I'm hoping that Kodi will make these libraries/repositories (Mediathek) first class citizens like the old sequential TV.)

Thank you so much and
best wishes