@ntate6630 I have seen your issue. With enough starting and stopping creating the audio stream can hang, and that needs kodi to be restarted to fix. It is not a memory issue.
I don’t think it is the issue others have reported. This issue only occurs on start of stream - I don’t believe it will occur in the middle of video playback.
The alsa sink doesn’t have this issue. While not generally recommended, I’d be interested if you can try that and confirm you get the same behaviour. You’ll want “dtparam=audio=on” in config.txt (I believe that is a default), and make sure snd-bcm2835 is not blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d. You should then be able to launch kodi and choose the alsa device in system/audio settings.
I do have a potential fix for this. It works but it’s not the right fix - I really need a colleague to look into the underlying cause and it’s next on his list.