[jp2code]

Best I can tell, Kodi seems to become unresponsive after the HDMI source on my TV has been changed.

Kodi is running on an NUC PC, which is hooked up to HDMI-1.

My son plays XBox, which is hooked up to HDMI-3.

After he finishes playing, he typically forgets to put the TV back on HDMI-1.

If I come back hours later and swap the HDMI input, Kodi appears to work just fine.

Whenever I select something to watch, there will be no audio. If I leave Kodi running, the video will eventually get choppy and freeze.

At this point, I can press the [STOP] button, and Kodi will eventually stop playback. If I try starting another video, I will get the same behavior until I exit Kodi.

When I try to exit Kodi, the UI locks up. The only way to get PC control back is to use CTRL-ALT-DELETE to bring up Task Manager and kill the Kodi process.

After this, I can restart Kodi and it works fine.

It seems like Kodi knows something is broke (because it is recording it in the log file shown below), and Kodi still works fine after a restart (not a PC reboot).

My guess is somewhere there is a driver or library file that diposes of itself after a long period of inactivity.

Can this bug be put on the list for fixes? If Kodi has detected the issue and something in the program is not responding, that control should/could be disposed of and reinitialized - my guess. I really don't understand much about the code, and I am not one of those great computer programmers.

My PC is running Win10x64, 256G SSD, 8G RAM.

Log file:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/23631744/

[jp2code]

If I were to try helping to find this bug in the code, is there a Quick Start Guide for new Developers coming to this project?

Apparently, I cannot delete this post.

I did find some help here: http://trac.kodi.tv/

Would this issue qualify as a bug that I should submit? Can anyone else verify that it happens on their system?

[PatK]

Developers are working feverishly on bringing the new Krypton to fruition, with V18 clearing the table, I doubt there will be any enthusiasm or work for legacy Jarvis. Let me have a quick run at some of the issues you mention.

Once you lose/drop handshaking on the HDMI connection between the panel and PC, you're into HDPC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandw...Protection and end to end protection. " I select something to watch, there will be no audio."Once you've lost the HDMI output, Kodi audio will default to Direct-sound, then we enter these issues... http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=251833 and http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=194926 Failure to exit properly, usually is Kodi trying to close a task and that task is no longer responding (quite often it's waiting for an add-on URL to come back) but not always, could be a task launched much earlier that has crashed; Kodi records this failure, but that in-it-self is not enough to auto-restart 'could be disposed of and reinitialized' we always welcome new code patches. The work-around for some user has been the pin#19 trick. Displays (wiki) http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=158432

Quick Start Guide for new Developers

When it comes to programming and Kodi development it's really a commitment to computing far beyond the program and the only way I could relate to this is the equivalency of joining a cloistered monastery.

[jp2code]

Awesome reply, Pat. Thanks. I used to telecommute with a Pat, but he was in Florida.

I downloaded the Kodi project. What is the project in, Eclipse? My coding is all in C# .Net for WinForms. I used to know C/C++, but that was over 15 years ago. I'm pretty useless to your group of developers.

I wasn't thinking about patching old Jarvis. I was thinking of addressing these issues in upcoming releases.

Thanks again for the response. Maybe some of these issues can be addressed in later versions of the product.

[Joe M]

I'm using Amazon Fire and been experiencing a lot of freezing on live sports events.
Just about everything starts ok for a couple of seconds then lots of freezing.
Any idea anyone?
Thanks!

[PatK]

@Joe M please post as an independent issue in a new thread along with a debug log posted to a public pastebin and that URL linked back to the post, so we can investigate this issue in depth. Please also indicate the add-ons in usage and or programs that are at focus.

[Joe M]

@Joe M please post as an independent issue in a new thread along with a debug log posted to a public pastebin and that URL linked back to the post, so we can investigate this issue in depth. Please also indicate the add-ons in usage and or programs that are at focus.

Thanks PatK!