Posts by JoeCotty

Hello Again,

Meanwhile there is also a file called Textures14.db which has to be deleted in my system (LE13 nightly), too.
I also always delete the directory Thumbnails.
After reboot everything is created new.
Done for several times without problems ...

I store my covers exclusively in the MP3-tag. But now i found a problem, that with some single files there is another cover shown in LE13 than is located in my mp3.

Mp3tag and VLC on my windows laptop show both the correct cover of the mp3 but Kodi shows a different cover.

Same ID-Tag, KHz, Encoder, ... than my other files and only one cover is existing in each MP3.
No other graphics files existing in this music folder.

I can not find the root cause ...

Any ideas ?
Is there a way to see, from where Kodi gets its Coverimage ?

Best regards
Joe

I am not sure if nobody can reproduce it because nobody mentioned that here.
I think it is too much effort for all of them.

So i played again these 3 songs on my raspy repeatedly for a while without crossfade and after that i went back to main menu and navigated somewhere else in the settings for a while and then it crashed and rebooted like always.

old log : https://paste.libreelec.tv/sharp-walrus.log

actual log : https://paste.libreelec.tv/internal-muskrat.log

crashlog : https://paste.libreelec.tv/mature-flamingo.log

Audio on x86 : ALSA:HDA ATL, PIO Sound System on Displayport

Audio on Pi3 : ALSA: Default (VC4-HDMI MAI PCM I24-Hifi-0)()

To be honest, for me i have my solution to convert all of them to 44.1 KHz
I will only help here to find the root cause of this problem because if sudden crashes will occur on Kodi which can not really be reproduced exactly with a song are probably a reason to stop using Kodi or LE.
Exactly in this situation I have been and bought new hardware and thought about switching to another system.

Nice Sunday from my side
Joe

Sorry, but its a little bit different, lets say more difficult ....

My solution with encoding all to 44.1 KHz works fine on LE12.0.2 and LE13 nigthly, crossfade active or not ...
(ffmpeg -y -i input.mp3 -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -b:a 192k output.mp3)

If i disable crossfade my Kodi does not crash immediately on end of crashsong but if i press some keys after it played and navigate e.g. to main menu then Kodi crashes and restarts.
And that i can reproduce on my x86 AND on Raspy3 V2.

If crossfade is enabled the crashsong crashes directly on its end but only on x86.

EDIT :
If I play the 3 songs repeatetly in a loop without crossfade it crashes now at the end of song3 when switching againto song1.
This is definetly reproducable on my x86.
The problem is nevertheless song2 but crash appears now a little bit later when crossfade is not active.
Also to mention is that at the end of crashsong (4:33) there is a gap of sound for 2 seconds and Goom also stops from there on.

So It has definetly nothing to do with crossfade and does also not appear when all are on 44.1 KHz...

Tricky and not easy to find the root cause ...

If somebody needs my 3 songs please give me a private message and i give you a download link ....

I remebered to also having a Raspy 3B Ver2 so i installed LE13 nigthly

played also these 3 songs and there was a short audio break at about 4:26 in the chrashsong but song3 was starting and played.

So firstly i thought we do not have the crash on the Raspy.

But letting play them for a while and then i used USB-Keyboard and pressed ESC twice to go back to the main screnn and then the raspy rebooted also.

This is also repeatable.

Quote from mglae

LE13 Generic-legacy does not work anymore because support for kernel "radeon" driver was removed.

So until now i have tested 3 systems. ALL of them have a RADEON

On all of them 12.02 is running fine but only on one i can run LE13 nightly

HP T620 has a RADEON HD 8330E Graphics -> LE 13 nightly does NOT run

HP T630 has a RADEON R7E -> LE 13 nightly runs

HP T730 has a RADEON R7 -> LE 13 nightly does NOT run

So why does the T630 run with LE13 even if it has a RADEON GPU ?

The T730 has a PCIe slot where i installed an AMD Fire W2100 and deactivated iGPU in BIOS.
But also with this card i stay in the splash screen.
Can somebody recommend a low profile half height graphics card PCIe which works with LE13 ?

crossfade is on and 5s

i placed the 3 songs in a separate directory

named that they are running in the correct order

reboot

go to music - files and browsed to this directory

press "c" for contextmenu on this directory and choose play

I can now reproduce the crash but it was very very tricky ...
So prepare for a post with much reading and thinking ....

Found a song which causes the crash but playing it standalone does not crash Kodi ...

So what i tested finally (after many many hours) with 3 files in one directory :

1.)
playing song1, chrashsong, song3 -> crashsong (4:38) crashes always at 4:28
playing chrashsong -> nothing chrashes
playing song1, chrashsong -> nothing chrashes
playing chrashsong, song3 -> nothing chrashes

!!! Unbelieveable. thats why i did not find a single song which causes the crash !!!

2.)
Changed song1 and song3 to another song -> same behaviour like above

3.)
I remembered i have crossfade activated between songs with 5s so i deactivated it
playing song1, chrashsong, song3 -> song 3 starts but when i used keyboard to go back also Kodi crashed

4.)
Activated crossfade again but with 10s
playing song1, chrashsong, song3 -> crashsong (4:38) crashes 5s earlier at 4:23 like expected

5.)
crossfade back to 5s
I reencoded crashsong with foobar and lame 3.100 to 190K
playing song1, new encoded chrashsong, song3 -> also chrashed

6.)
Saw that crashsong had 48 KHz and the rest 44.1 KHz
Now reencoded the crashsong with ffmpeg to 44.1 KHz
!!! Yeah, now these 3 songs are runnning without crash ... !!!

So i will reencode all 48 KHz songs to 44.1 KHz and then test all songs again.
Hopefully this was the root cause for all the crashes
There have been approx 30 songs with 48 KHz in my list of about 1000 (most of them converted online out of youtube videos ...)

But a 48 KHz mp3 should not be a problem for Kodi, or ?

Finally my about 1000 songs played now for about 20 hours without crash ...
So my already new bought hardware T730 is no more needed ....

Shall i provide these 3 songs and if yes how ?

Best regards
Joe

Da Flex

From where dou you get the information in the log, that the crash is related to FFMPEG.

I started Hungry Lucy in the evening yesterday with her 10 songs and she still was singing today now in the morning.

So what i did is removed all unwanted ID3 tags with "mp3tag" from my songs like "APE" and "ID3v1" and also deleted unneeded fields inside.
So i only now have only about 7 fields inside my songs like "artist" and "title" or "Genre", "unsyncedlyrics", "year", gain ...
but still crashes.

So now i want to reduce the amount of songs and only let play one directory with about 50 songs in concrete order.
So i hope i can reproduce it with less songs and find the root cause ...

Adding these parameters to the syslinux.cfg did not solve the problem.

I did not even get the Libreelec splash screen ... kernel loaded - ok ... and then nothing happens further ...

I am thinking now of buying a HP T730, which i did not test so far ....

It happened also with Fish BMC visualization in LE13.

I thought it was better after repairing some of my mp3's but it happened again just one hour after start playing.

Log before chrash : https://paste.libreelec.tv/amused-dodo.log

Log after crash : https://paste.libreelec.tv/pleasant-ant.log

Crashlog : https://paste.libreelec.tv/alert-impala.log

I will try the downloaded "Hungry Lucy" over night because this is not my favorite music to hear ...

Hi,

yes, tried LE13 Generic Legacy but also does not work.

Only black screen with a visible mouse pointer is there ....

I will try your suggestion with "amdgpu"

Hi,

after successfully installing newest LE13 nightly on my HP T630 i also wanted to install it in my cellar on HP T620.

Boot screen hangs but system seems to run in background.
Can not connect via SSH.
But i can browse the diretories with a Windows Client.

Installing LE12 does not have this problem

ZIP-File attached for LE13 and LE12 after install and reboot

I am a windows guy and have not much knowledge with linux ...

Any help appreciated ...

EDIT :

I removed "quiet" and added "textmode" to the RUN-command on the USB-stick (found in other thread)
The result you can see on the screen-photo attached

We are talking about 1000 MP3s in different directories and different origins. (Not from One-File MP3 and cutted)
My feeling was that it is mostly crashing when switching to another song but it also happened in the middle of one song which i remembered and then played again after restart, but the chrash did not occur again ...

I checked them all with foobar and there have been issues which i all now corrected, so i will try them again.
I also downloaded sample MP3s from the link above (Hungry Lucy is ok, right ?) and will test them also.

I will come back with further news

Thanks for the support ...

Hmmm ... so i come back to my first post and ask for adequat hardware but i do not want a Raspy.

Are there any known good working small thin clients which i can try under 100 € ?

Q920 i already tried but Goom always freezed after some seconds of visualizing ...

Da Flex

Did you get feedback from the devs ?

It appears on LE12/LE13 and HP T620 and HP T630

Thanks
Joe

Thanks,

That was the solution ...

I think there was a misunderstanding in my previous post and probably also wrong written from my side ...
LE13 nightly runs but not stable ...

Therefor I changed the state to NOT solved for this topic ...

In fact I was able to install a clean newest nightly LE13 with Goom visualization but it crashed again on playing mp3.
I also used a new SSD ...
The same happens with a T620 which is located in my cellar.

Here is the log (hopefully the right one) : https://paste.libreelec.tv/more-salmon.log
And also the chrashlog which is mentioned there : https://paste.libreelec.tv/main-vulture.log

I really hope we can find the root cause because with this conditions i can not use LE/KODI for my purposes ...

If you need further data only tell me how to provide it ...

Hope for help ...

Joe

Hi,

i made a clean install of LE13 nightly on the same Thin Client (HP T630) which ran LE12 before successfully.

Use same USB or Bluetooth Keyboard like before but "z" and "y" are switched, even if i configured it in the keyboard layout only using QWERTZ.

If i go the the Addons search there is shown the "QWERTZ" but if i press "z" there appears an "y"

If i configure both QWERTZ and QWERTY and switch between them in the addon search i always get "y" if i press "z"

Also in LE settings i set keyboard layout to "de"

Best regards
Joe