XBMC Nightlies Crashing on 1080p Playback

Hi everyone:

XMBC is consistently crashing for me on 1080p playback, although it isn't an issue that's happening 100% of the time. I was using a nightly from early September that worked without issue and when I recently upgraded to the October 16 build, and each build thereafter until the most recent - xbmc-20111023-0e8168e-master-atv2.deb - 95% of the time I crash to frontrow before playback even begins. I'm running the build above on an ATV2, over an smb share with a centralized mysql and movie poster/fan art database on my server.

I have no issue with SD playback. My CrashReporter folder is empty (I don't know why) so here are my syslog and xbmc log:

Syslog - http://pastebin.com/gL9xPgvW
XBMC Log - http://pastebin.com/DwZnHAed

All of my movie files are MKV files with h264 audio. In this particular test, 2 files crashed (Outlaw Josey Wales and The Terminator.) One file (300) did not crash, although when I tested 300 on the previous 3 nightlies, it *did* crash, so there's no rhyme or reason to when this happens.

Many thanks to all for all of your efforts - XBMC is the reason I purchased ATV2 in the first place. Please let me know if I can provide any additional info.

Best,

SM

This indicates that you got out of RAM. Keep in mind that every app you install on ATV2 needs RAM even if you didn't start the app. Most RAM killers are Firecore MediaPlayer/Browser and so on and the Exposed VNC-Server (which is installed by NitoTV per default). Also a full blown custom skin could eat up your RAM.

Also double check if you have turned off "Settings > Video > File > 'extract thumbnails and video information'"

Memphiz Wrote:Most RAM killers are Firecore MediaPlayer/Browser and so on and the Exposed VNC-Server (which is installed by NitoTV per default). Also a full blown custom skin could eat up your RAM.'"

Thanks, thats good to know.

Thanks Memphiz, will check this out -- I have absolutely 0 other programs running on ATV except for XBMC, so this is very surprising. I'm also merely running the default confluence skin. I do not have NitoTV installed either, I installed XBMC via SSH, etc, to make everything as clean as possible.

I haven't done an updated restore and new jailbreak in a while (and I noticed recently that "TV Shows" has completely disappeared from FrontRow).... maybe it's time, although I'm hesitant to upgrade to iOS5.

I'm also getting crashes on the latest nighties ..videos play for about 3 minutes then it crashes

http://pastebin.com/fqxH6GcR XBMC.log

I rolled back from c5758bf to 0e8168e this morning

I am on IOS5 and have nothing else installed except XBMC

While you are rolling back, you should roll back the atv2 to 4.3
Why is everyone updating their atv2s? Is there any advantage in doing so?

G-off, when running the Seas0npass jailbreak, will that automatically download the latest 4.3 build for me, or do I need to locate the ISPW separately? Been a while since I did a jailbreak, and I can't remember if Seas0npass will automatically download only the latest firmware for me.

Turb007 Wrote:I'm also getting crashes on the latest nighties ..videos play for about 3 minutes then it crashes

http://pastebin.com/fqxH6GcR XBMC.log

I rolled back from c5758bf to 0e8168e this morning

I am on IOS5 and have nothing else installed except XBMC

Crashlog and syslog please (first link in my sig)

http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/718888/ syslog

http://pastebin.com/Kht6gU9U crashlog



Thanks

Memphiz Wrote:

Code:

613.Oct 24 19:18:37 Apple-TV ReportCrash[93]: Saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/LowMemory-2011-10-24-191837.plist using uid: 0 gid: 0, synthetic_euid: 0 egid: 0

This indicates that you got out of RAM. Keep in mind that every app you install on ATV2 needs RAM even if you didn't start the app. Most RAM killers are Firecore MediaPlayer/Browser and so on and the Exposed VNC-Server (which is installed by NitoTV per default). Also a full blown custom skin could eat up your RAM.

Also double check if you have turned off "Settings > Video > File > 'extract thumbnails and video information'"

What is VNC server for?
can I uninstall it?