I am sorry, my family needed the media player so I had to revert the whole install back to the previous working version. A lot of work because I could not backup the contents of the eMMC card. That is why I have waited until I was prepared to reinstall everything from scratch.
So I tried it again, because now the final version is released. But unfortunately, the HEIF plugin still crashes.
This is what happens. As soon as it tries to open, read or access HEIF files (because they exist in a directory that I am entering in the Pictures tab) the screen goes black, and I am back at the starting screen. When I first setup LibreELEC I chose among others the Dutch language and it was installed. But then I installed the HEIF plugin, accessed a directory with HEIF images and poof! Back at the startup screen and back in English, so nothing was even saved what I changed in the settings. I don't know what I can show in the logs mentioned, these are the last lines of kodi.old.log:
2023-04-19 18:37:20.951 T:882 info <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
2023-04-19 18:37:20.951 T:882 info <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "default"
2023-04-19 18:37:20.958 T:882 info <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "default"
2023-04-19 18:37:20.959 T:882 info <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats
2023-04-19 18:37:20.959 T:882 info <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S24NE4
2023-04-19 18:37:24.084 T:874 info <general>: Loading skin file: MyPics.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
2023-04-19 18:37:24.400 T:990 error <general>: Read - Error( -14, read call failed with "" )
2023-04-19 18:37:24.400 T:990 warning <general>: underflow: Error reading file - assuming eof
2023-04-19 18:37:26.570 T:990 error <general>: Read - Error( -14, read call failed with "" )
2023-04-19 18:37:26.570 T:990 warning <general>: underflow: Error reading file - assuming eof
2023-04-19 18:37:27.878 T:990 error <general>: Read - Error( -14, read call failed with "" )
2023-04-19 18:37:27.878 T:990 warning <general>: underflow: Error reading file - assuming eof
When I am ssh-ed into LibreELEC, that connection remains active so I think you are right that the Kodi app crashes.
The lines that I pasted above are everything that is new after what is written to the log just be starting Kodi up. And these lines I have to take out of the kodi.old.log, because it immediately creates a new log when it restarts. So watch for the kodi.log and the differences in kodi.old.log It is just those lines. I hope it is of any help, and sorry for the delay. My family want to watch videos, I can't tinker to long with this box ….