Xbmc freezes lock-ups when starting videos

Please post more debug logs. Might be a single problem or different ones. First step is to find a common pattern.

I ended up downgrading to XBMC Live 10.1 and all is fine again.

Sorry, I can't post logs.

I am getting this dark feeling I am experiencing the same odd problem. However, there are some differences in my experience so my apologies if I am actually just cluttering this thread.

What I have noticed is that whenever I am playing a Youtube movie, one or two go fine.. then the third or fourth appears to lock up the system. That's what I thought at first anyway. What happens is that the video seems to get buffered but it appears that the video disappears behind everything else. Can't really describe it any better. The timer starts playing and keeps playing. I have kept it running once and for a 50 second video the timer ran well past the 3 minutes. When I press the x (or stop) button during this "hidden playback", or whatever you want to call it, locks up XBMC. The RSS feed freezes and nothing responds. The Android App can not communicate with XBMC anymore, a web interface is unreachable. The system is however up and running. I can SSH to the system (lazy ain't I? ) and reboot the system but XBMC is as silent as the movie.

Now, at first I though I would have to check the YouTube addon makers for support, but when it also happened with "The Trailer" addon and also when serving a video I recorded with my phone through DLNA to XBMC, after a couple of videos from The Trailer or from my phone, the above seemed to happen. So I can't really pinpoint it to one plugin. I have not have it happen to me during a movie I must admit.

But then today I heard all of a sudden audio playing and saw the timer running. When I pressed on the | button, to go to window mode (I am running standalone) all of a sudden I see the video playing windowed mode. Pressing it again took me to full screen mode and I was able to stop the music video without a total lock up.

I would post a log but which plugin to set to debug? It is not really an addon thing, is it? Would I need to set XBMC itself to debug? Where do I do this?

Hope someone can help, and in turn that I can help others with similar problems.

System info:
Acer X3400 system
LG 42PT350 television
XBMC Eden from the official stable PPA (not from Ubuntu's or Debians own repositories)
Ubuntu 11.10

Here is the link to my most recent run-in with the problem. I have narrowed it down to: after a couple succesfull playbacks (video streams) the video does not come forward, the audio plays for a second or so and then all of a sudden dies (my receiver looses HDMI audio) but the timer/counter still plays. XBMC is then still responsive and I can go where I want up until I press X to stop the movie. When I don't press X but | instead, I get a windowed video and audio is restored. Pressing | again to go back to full screen, the video plays on with audio and then I can succesfully stop playback bu pressing X without crashing the system.

The link to the log where I pressed X instead of | is this: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=1396
If someone needs a log of when I press | to recover the system, let me know.

FYI: I went into System>Settings>System and turned on debugging. I suspect this is system wide debugging? Hope that helped.

(2012-04-10 21:48)alexvanniel Wrote:  .. the video does not come forward, the audio plays for a second or so and then all of a sudden dies (my receiver looses HDMI audio) but the timer/counter still plays. XBMC is then still responsive and I can go where I want up until I press X to stop the movie.

you described exactly the behavior of XBMC here ! After a freeze I do a login via TTY console, kill the xbmc process, start xbmc again and can play the video without problems .. it's unfortunately not directly repeatable, means it happens often but not always with the same videos; I'll check my logs ..

Greetz

LastCoder

(2012-04-11 15:55)LastCoder Wrote:  

(2012-04-10 21:48)alexvanniel Wrote:  .. the video does not come forward, the audio plays for a second or so and then all of a sudden dies (my receiver looses HDMI audio) but the timer/counter still plays. XBMC is then still responsive and I can go where I want up until I press X to stop the movie.

you described exactly the behavior of XBMC here ! After a freeze I do a login via TTY console, kill the xbmc process, start xbmc again and can play the video without problems .. it's unfortunately not directly repeatable, means it happens often but not always with the same videos; I'll check my logs ..

Greetz

LastCoder

You might want to post your log too. I had to post my xbmc.old.log though, since the system had to be restarted, I wanted to use the xbmc log uploader, and thus a new log was created. Luckily you can upload your .old.log with the logfile uploader though. Handy addon.

alexvanniel: you are using NVidia driver 280. This one had problems with multithreaded GL applications. Line 5039 of your log is the last entry of the video player thread. Line 5075, thread id of video player thread, but doing cleanup.
Can you upgrade to 295? 295.33 has some problems too, but is not as bad as 280. I haven't tried 295.40 yet.

(2012-04-11 16:20)FernetMenta Wrote:  alexvanniel: you are using NVidia driver 280. This one had problems with multithreaded GL applications. Line 5039 of your log is the last entry of the video player thread. Line 5075, thread id of video player thread, but doing cleanup.
Can you upgrade to 295? 295.33 has some problems too, but is not as bad as 280. I haven't tried 295.40 yet.

As the official Ubuntu repos don't have anything newer then 280, how would I go about installing the latest Nvidia drivers? Would that be something I could pickup from the website of Nvidia, and would that not upset my system? As in: dependency problems etc etc? Or do you happen to know a repo I can install them from?

I prefer downloading from nvidia and use nvidia installer. It's very straightforward. Ubuntu-X offers a ppa. At least they have 295.33 available: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates

(2012-04-11 17:05)FernetMenta Wrote:  I prefer downloading from nvidia and use nvidia installer. It's very straightforward. Ubuntu-X offers a ppa. At least they have 295.33 available: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates

I will see if I can get the installer from Nvidia. Latest version ok? I see their latest driver is 295.40 Should that at least contribute to minimizing problems?

edit: I should read better. You have not tested 295.40 yet... I will see what I can do. Won't be today though but I will keep you posted.