Hello,
I recently upgraded my htpc to Libreelec 8.95 and after a while i got my tvheadend tv-backend running again.
In Germany HD channels get encoded with MPEG4 and SD channels with MPEG2.
After my upgrade i was only able to watch HD channels, on SD channels the player instantly crashed.
I also tried to watch the SD channels from other devices like my mobile, which worked surprisingly.
So I concluded that it's not the fault of tvheadends backend but of the player.
Eventually i decided to see what happens if i disable the hardware acceleration, which was enabled by default for MPEG2.
And well it worked again.
So I'm not sure if hardware acceleration was enabled in Kodi 8 by default, but if yes there must be some bug.
If not, then the detection whether a hardware supports MPEG2 encoded streams or not doesn't seem to work well.
Here is my crash log: http://ix.io/1zf5
And here is the regular log: http://ix.io/1zf3