Posts by adam.h.


    When connecting directly into TV there's no dropouts

    Interesting. Considering that both Win/VLC and Unx/LE have similar issues with hdmi through Yamaha this might suggest some HDMI hw (edit: or rather firmware) incompatibility between that version of NUC and your Yamaha receiver. I wonder if you find any other people complaining for that specific combination of NUC-Rcvr?

    I have passthrough enable on kodi, when I play a video it every few second audio keeps cutting out. is there anyway to fix this?

    Make sure you are running latest BIOS and have installed all firmware updates if available (e.g. HDMI firmware) - see here.
    If this would not solve the problem then try to search NUC forums for hints what should be the BIOS setup (like disable power management etc), it seems that NUC has often issues with hdmi audio on Linux distros.

    See here, perhaps it is similar root cause:

    adam.h.
    August 24, 2022 at 10:07 PM

    Although it is not so bad now. After applaying all these changes described above it hanged only once and I'm unable to repeat it now. So perhaps this was not a driver problem but something related to NUC power management?

    I enabled more detailed logs:

    Code: advancedsettings.xml
    <advancedsettings>
        <loglevel>1</loglevel>
        <setting id="debug.extralogging">true</setting>
        <setting id="debug.setextraloglevel">128,2048,32768,262144</setting>
    </advancedsettings>

    which generated 200+ MB log file after 2 hours of playing a movie, but perversity of inanimate objects prevented it from more hangs (so far), so nothing really interesting is captured.

    So I updated NUC BIOS to latest #58 version from Aug 24, 2022 and then also switched Power/Dynamic Power Tech to Off.

    And it didn't help, that test MKV still hangs. At least it is consistent (although it is not hanging in the same file position, sometimes it plays 40 min, sometimes 70 min before it hangs).

    I suppose this is a lot of words just to say that this is unknown problem and sorry, no solution out of the box :D

    Here are two logs with two different hangs on the same MKV: debug and default. Both look somehow truncated, not sure why.

    If this is driver issue (as it is my suspicion) you will not find too much in these logs.

    The MKV itself is nothing special:

    So I think it started when I upgraded my NUC to some nightly build in July. Then it still happens with latest smp build from August. I believe it was never happening when I was running previous smp build, which I believe was built somewhere in February?

    What happens is that randomly everything is freezing and the sound starts looping in some 0.2 sec cycle producing strange effect. Randomly means that sometimes nothing happens, sometimes it hangs twice or three times over 2 hours movie. When it happens I can only continue after hard reset.

    Perhaps this is some driver problem. I tried this fix, but it didn't help. Just wondering if this is happening only to me, or anyone else experienced it?

    I'm running now the latest smp build.

    Updated build in post #1.

    So that build I suppose is based on sw dated 2022-08-07. I used previously nightly build as of 2022-08-06 and on NUC 10 it was hanging around every one hour on regular MPEG4/AC3 movies , which was pretty annoing.

    This one is not hanging at all (so far), so I wonder what else is different comparing to regular nighties?