Xbmc freezes lock-ups when starting videos

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alfton Offline
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I to experience this problems some times, with fresh installed XBMCbuntu. And it happends more offen when you try to start movie from a point there you stopet the movie.
I will try to reporduce this error when i come home and post the crashlog here.

I have a zotac ion2. So I think this is not hardware problems, its software.

(latest version of the NVidia driver installed)
(This post was last modified: 2012-04-13 12:59 by alfton.)
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Encountering same exact issue on a Dell Inspiron 630 with Geforce 8600GT.

Can post logs .
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Tolarian Offline
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Got the crash again today, I had debug logging enabled. Default skin enabled. This is not the complete log as it did not fit on pastebin. The last line looks interesting: http://pastebin.com/AwWa06tG


17:08:02 T:2919234416 ERROR: GetDelay - snd_pcm_delay, alsa error: -32 - Broken pipe
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Maybe I've found something for the "alsa 32 error":

http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/Garble...run_errors

its with a Workaround, but its for Ubuntu 8.04, so I don't know if it's working for other releases.
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Tolarian Offline
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rd.conf seems to be a config file only for rivendell, the linux radio program. I would not know where to put the correct options for XBMC.
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To the XBMC devs. I'm experiencing the same issue where the audio starts for about 5 seconds but no video (besides the timer, etc.) and then freezes hard. Here are a couple log files I've copied after a couple crashes.

I'm using a Acer Revo on Ubuntu 11.10 x64

http://pastebin.com/Lyh6pDAz

http://pastebin.com/bvTuE15A

Hope this helps find a cure.
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(2012-04-18 02:54)stephb Wrote:  To the XBMC devs. I'm experiencing the same issue where the audio starts for about 5 seconds but no video (besides the timer, etc.) and then freezes hard. Here are a couple log files I've copied after a couple crashes.

I'm using a Acer Revo on Ubuntu 11.10 x64

http://pastebin.com/Lyh6pDAz

http://pastebin.com/bvTuE15A

Hope this helps find a cure.

Code:
21:59:33 T:139756802205568   DEBUG: SDLKeyboard: scancode: 40, sym: 0134, unicode: 0000, modifier: 0
21:59:33 T:139756802205568   DEBUG: OnKey: leftalt (f0d4) pressed, action is
21:59:33 T:139756802205568   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (Pointer.xml) ------
21:59:34 T:139756802205568   DEBUG: CAnnouncementManager - Announcement: OnQuit from xbmc

This look weird. Might be caused by your MCE remote. Can you try with lirc and your mce disabled?

Please post only full debug logs.
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stephb Offline
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Hmm... the wife won't like not being able to use the Harmony remote. Smile

I'll do some testing with it disabled and hopefully it will happen for me. It's odd that sometimes it'll happen every second video we start then other times it will last through a bunch. The funny thing is it has never happened for me when switching to the next video in a playlist (like hitting play on a show folder to queue up all the episodes).

Sorry about the abbreviated logs. They were pretty big and I didn't know it mattered. I'll post the full file next time.
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FernetMenta Offline
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You can do a quick test. Open a terminal in you X session and press numerical keys on you remote. Do the characters show up in the terminal? If this is the case you should setup Xorg to ignore this device.
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(2012-04-18 02:54)stephb Wrote:  To the XBMC devs. I'm experiencing the same issue where the audio starts for about 5 seconds but no video (besides the timer, etc.) and then freezes hard. Here are a couple log files I've copied after a couple crashes.

I'm using a Acer Revo on Ubuntu 11.10 x64

http://pastebin.com/Lyh6pDAz

http://pastebin.com/bvTuE15A

Hope this helps find a cure.

I could reproduce those freezes; especially when you trigger a video while a slideshow is running (or from a python Window/XML), those freezes (no video, but ~5 seconds audio) happen really often...

Now i found something strange. As I've been developing, I used Unity in Ubuntu 11.10. When I re-login into XBMC standalone, or Unity-2D, I don't get those freezes. If I use Unity (3D) again, they are back after 5-10 tries?!

Downgraded nvidia from 295 to 280, no effect.
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