Posts by wizerd00

  • [RPi5] A/V Stuttering when playing from Jellyfin Server

    Quote from VLouis

    The request was to play through LE-Kodi from another source, to see if the issue coming from jellyfin server or "non standard" media file. Another source with another media player doesn't help in that situation.
    Different players (Kodi built-in player, VNC player...) handle different those "non-standard" media files.
    A question could be: the player need to be able to play a "messed up mp4 container" or that is a media file issue instead player?

    Oh I see.

    I'll point kodi directly to the smb share and try it that way.

  • [RPi5] A/V Stuttering when playing from Jellyfin Server

    Understood!


    I have made the following settings changes:

    In System->General,

    • Resolution set to 1920x1080p
    • refresh rate set to 60
    • GUI Resolution Limit set to 1080

    In the whitelist, I have manually added all of the specified resolutions in the Mode Whitelist section

    In Player->Videos, I have confirmed that the "Adjust Display Refresh Rate" setting is set to "On Start/Stop"

    In the Deinterlacing section, the specified resolutions were not present as options in the Whitelist. If there's a different place where they need to be disabled, I did not see it.


    I will now restart and attempt to recreate the issue.

    Well, that was easy, it happened pretty much immediately:

    https://paste.libreelec.tv/epigonic-melisa.log


    At least it didn't vanish and re-appear weeks from now?

  • [RPi5] A/V Stuttering when playing from Jellyfin Server

    Quote from chewitt

    The log looks like the device is continually trying to realign audio/video. That's either something from the Jellyfin server or perhaps the network, but my guess is this is about CPU load. It's not clear if you are running Jellyfin on the same RPi? (the Docker add-on is there but we don't list its containers anywhere) but I do notice that 1080p media is being played at (and thus scaled to) 4K.

    Implement the whitelist and recommendations here: https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/4k-hdr. This will result in a 1080p home screen and 1080p media playing at 1080p instead of being CPU scaled to 4K. This might not be cause, but as most skins are 720p or at most 1080p native GUI performance will be improved anyway, and it's good to rule this out.

    Question regarding the instructions:


    "Allow Kodi to upscale SD media to HD, and let the TV handle 1080p upscaling to 4K"


    What setting does this line refer to specifically? How do I do this?

  • [RPi5] A/V Stuttering when playing from Jellyfin Server

    Quote from chewitt

    The log looks like the device is continually trying to realign audio/video. That's either something from the Jellyfin server or perhaps the network, but my guess is this is about CPU load. It's not clear if you are running Jellyfin on the same RPi? (the Docker add-on is there but we don't list its containers anywhere) but I do notice that 1080p media is being played at (and thus scaled to) 4K.

    Implement the whitelist and recommendations here: https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/4k-hdr. This will result in a 1080p home screen and 1080p media playing at 1080p instead of being CPU scaled to 4K. This might not be cause, but as most skins are 720p or at most 1080p native GUI performance will be improved anyway, and it's good to rule this out.

    I am running Jellyfin on a different device and streaming it to the RPi.

    I'll implement the whitelist and recreate the issue (it's not consistent) and report back.


    Quote from tokul

    imho you get best jellyfin experience, if you organize your library in a way that does not require transcoding.

    Maybe check video playing jellyfin ui, if it is doing transcoding.

    I checked and while Intel Quick Sync is available on my server, it wasn't actually enabled in Jellyfin. I'll enable it and see if that changes anything.

  • [RPi5] A/V Stuttering when playing from Jellyfin Server

    Hello,

    The Problem:
    I'm running libre elec on a raspberry pi 5 and streaming from a jellyfin server using the jellyfin addon. During movie playback, sometimes it will start stuttering / skipping. This applies to both the audio and video, and the stuttering seems to be at a consistent frequency.


    What I've Tried:

    • Stopping the movie (as in, pressing the stop button) and then resuming playback does not stop the stuttering.
    • Restarting the device DOES seem to resolve the issue
    • Arbitrarily skipping around within the movie does not resolve the issue
    • Manually watching the temperature via SSH (command is watch -n 1 "cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp | awk '{print \$1/1000 \" °C\"}'") seems to indicate that the temperature does not approach the 80 degrees C threshold for soft throttling
    • No indication that bandwidth is an issue on the LAN
    • The OS and Jellyfin plugin are both set to automatically update and so I assume they are up to date


    Any assistance in diagnosing the problem would be greatly appreciated.


    The logs from this occurring can be found here: https://paste.libreelec.tv/unsolitary-arianne.log

    Thanks in advance!

  • [x86-64] Crash when streaming video using Kodi

    Hello! I've been having some trouble getting Kodi TV working on my Mele compute stick / mini PC and I'm out of ideas. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

    Fun and Useful Facts

    • I am using a Mele Stick computer PCG02 (the old one)
      • The CPU is Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz
      • The GPU is 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation GeminiLake [UHD Graphics 600] (rev 06)
      • It has 8GB of RAM
      • It is x86_64
      • I am running LibreElec (LibreELEC-Generic-legacy.x86_64-12.2.1)
      • The OS was installed manually (downloaded .iso, dd'd to flash drive, booted and ran the installer)
      • The output of uname -a is Linux MediaStreamer 6.16.12 #1 SMP Sat Nov 1 02:47:48 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux
    • The "send crash logs" option immediately after crashing when using jellyfin are here: https://paste.libreelec.tv/allowing-cod.log
    • The "kodi.old.log" after crashing using jellyfin is here: https://justpaste.it/fmm2u
    • The "send crash logs" option while not using jellyfin is here: https://paste.libreelec.tv/sterling-cod.log
    • The "kodi.old.log" after crashing while not using jellyfin is here: https://justpaste.it/n8yb0
    • The forum posting instructions refer to obtaining a backtrace, but I'm not sure how to do this with Libre Elec


    Executive Summary
    I have a Mele Stick Computer and I'm trying to run Kodi on it. I am experiencing frequent crashes, which consistently occur when attempting to stream video and inconsistently when navigating the Kodi menus but not streaming video. The crash sends the computer into a power-off state abruptly. When streaming video this crash is preceded by the video freezing. I originally encountered this problem when streaming with the jellyfin plugin. To troubleshoot, I completed disabled this plugin and instead streamed my movies by accessing their SMB share. The crashes continued in this "clean" configuration - the links described as "not using jellyfin" all refer to this clean configuration (as in, renamed the addons and userdata folders).

    What I've tried so far
    The CPU temperature, as accessed by both the Kodi GUI and accessing the temp zone files directly, do not fluctuate rapidly when these crashes occur, and do not exceed the safe temperatures of 40-60 degrees C.

    The CPU usage, as described by the top program (SSH'd into the device) indicates 100 or above % usage of the CPU. The obvious indicator is that the CPU is insufficient, but I'm hoping to either get confirmation or a different explanation.

    I have also tried this with the LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-12.2.1 image (non - legacy) as well as Linux Mint (linuxmint-22.3-xfce-64bit) with Kodi installed via flatpak. I don't have logs, but encountered similar crashes in those environments. I can go and produce logs for those scenarios if that would be helpful.


    Thank you for any help you can provide!