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Buckeyes2014 · 2014-10-03, 20:44

I'm having problems playing older video files encoded with Mpeg audio on my Fire TV. The audio crackles, and the program crashes after a minute or so. I've tried tinkering with the audio settings, stereo upmix, # of channels, etc.. and it hasn't made a difference.

There are no problems I have found with Dolby Digital, DTS, or other audio. It's just the older format that is causing issues.

I've tested it with the 13.2 Stable Release, 14.0 Alphas 3/4, and the latest SPMC, and it happens in each of them.

Any help would be appreciated. I can't figure out how to fix it.

Debug Log: http://pastebin.com/JXeXxVyE
MediaInfo for the TV episode in the Log: http://pastebin.com/PDzM8iEa

Buckeyes2014 · 2014-10-04, 14:43

After some more testing, I found video files with h.264 encoded video and mpeg audio worked fine. It is possible the problem is with the Xvid encoding?

Koying · 2014-10-04, 18:06

Code:
11:36:41 T:1675834032   ERROR: ffmpeg[63E332B0]: [mp3] Header missing

There is obviously a badly formated MP3 audio track in those files, for which we probably cannot do anything, but Kodi shouldn't crash.
Could you PM a link to a sample, please.

Buckeyes2014 · (This post was last modified: 2014-10-06, 20:03 by Buckeyes2014.)

(2014-10-04, 18:06)Koying Wrote:
Code:
11:36:41 T:1675834032 ERROR: ffmpeg[63E332B0]: [mp3] Header missing
There is obviously a badly formated MP3 audio track in those files, for which we probably cannot do anything, but Kodi shouldn't crash.
Could you PM a link to a sample, please.

Thank you for the reply.

That's odd, I watched through the entire series with XBMC on a Raspberry Pi with no issues. I'll do some testing and see if the issue comes up with other episodes of the show.

Buckeyes2014 · (This post was last modified: 2014-10-08, 04:33 by Buckeyes2014.)

In more checking, I'm having the same issue with any videos encoded with Xvid video and Mpeg audio. Many different series. I don't think they all have the same badly encoded audio track. No problems whatsoever with anything newer/HD.

Here is another log from where the playback started, same thing. 30 seconds and a crash. Audio popping in and out.

http://pastebin.com/SSm79eDh

Koying · 2014-10-08, 07:09

Please PM me a sample so that I can try to reproduce

Buckeyes2014 · 2014-10-11, 04:48

So I can't explain it, but I got it working after I upgraded the Fire TV firmware to the latest version (pre-rooted), completely wiped XBMC and installed SPMC.

I don't know if it was something in the firmware, a corrupt installation, something in my setup, or what, but all is well now.

Thanks for the help.