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Alright after getting rid of the Argon One case I’ve plugged in the original Raspberry PSU since it pushes out 3 amps instead of the apparently maximum 2.4 amps the Anker can do.

Result:

With the original PSU I could navigate through the main menu of the DVD. As soon as the content of the DVD started, black screen appeared and a pop up message “drive successfully ejected” came up.

Then I’ve tried to plug in the Anker PSU since I’ve had more luck with it in the past even though it can only do 2.4 amps max.

Result with Anker PSU:

The DVD plays fine. For about three minutes. Then same result, a pop up that tells me that the drive was successfully removed.

The Raspberry now does not have any cooling on it whatsoever. But since it’s not overclocked I don’t expect it to overheat within seconds or two or three minutes while only playing a DVD on LibreELEC.

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Alright I’ve solved the riddle of the DVD crashing. It’s really just the DVD drive not getting enough juice. I’ve solved this using a Y-cable where you plug in one end into a PSU and the other end into the Pi and the actual USB device (DVD drive) that’s supposed to be powered in the middle. Never was an issue on the Pi 3 but oh well.

Now regarding DVDs the only thing left for me to figure out is how to hook everything up so it’s not just a huge mess of cables and adapters all plugging into each other.

The only issue I’m still left with is why the stream keeps constantly crashing. It’s really weird because it is literally just the Pi 4 on its own using a wired LAN connection with nothing else drawing power except for the Logitech keyboard wireless dongle. I’ll mess around with it some more and if nothing works, I’ll open up a new thread. Thanks a lot for your suggestions guys, that helped me out a lot!

I’ve bought the original Raspberry Pi plug so I wouldn’t have to deal with dodgy chinese plugs. But that didn’t really help. I’ve also bought an Anker plug that has four USB outputs and apparently it can output up to 7.2 amps. No idea if it’s limited to 1.8 amps per USB port or if it can push out more than that if only the Pi is connected (which it is) but yeah. Neither the original nor the Anker plug did. change anything.

And I’ve only cranked up the fan to max just to be sure that nothing is overheating. I’ve got another Pi 4 that’s sitting next to my router and that is only being passively cooled. It goes up to 60 - 65-ish under load and nothing ever happened to it. But I really wanted to rule out any sources of error. But nothing that I change saves me from the crashes that randomly occur on the Pi 4 while streaming or watching DVDs.

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I’ve also had similar issues with my Pi 4. I’ve installed LibreELEC just to watch DVDs. Sometimes they play fine for a while and sometimes they crash shortly after the DVD has been started. The Pi 4 simply unmounts the external DVD drive and also kicks out the wireless dongle of my Logitech keyboard. If I unplug and replug it, the keyboard works again. The DVD drive on the other hand most of the times won’t work again and it is also impossible to properly shut down the Pi 4 through KODI’s menu. I have to force kill it using the button on my Argon One case.

I’ve also tried playing the DVDs on TwisterOS. Same story. So it’s probably not the OS’s fault. This has lead me to believe that maybe it’s an issue with the SD cards that I use. So I’ve tried booting the Pi 4 from a USB thumb drive. But same story here. The DVD drive will be unmounted.

Another thing is that while streaming series on TwisterOS on a premium streaming service who’s mascot is a rodent with big ears, the stream will play fine for an hour or two. After that the stream will very regularly shut down and crash. Then I’ll have to refresh the page or even restart the entire browser for the stream to continue.

I’m using the 8GB Pi 4 with an Argon One case. I’ve turned the fans up to max so temperatures usually stay far below 40°C. I’ve also tried overclocking and removing the overclock. Same story. DVD drive will be unmounted and streams crash.

So might this be a hardware or a driver issue? Judging by how unstable everything is not only on LibreELEC but also on TwisterOS this might very well be the case. I’ve never had a single problem on the old Pi 3.