Playback halted after one episode, after reboot always OK

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Hi,

I have a Vero 4K running Leia nightly versions. For the last couple of months (unfortunately I don’t know the exact version where I noticed a change) the first video file I play after a reboot works perfectly, however if I try to start a second one nothing happens. If I hit the back button all the way to home screen and then once more I can see a black screen with buffering (100%) but it will never complete.

After rebooting OSMC I can play any file I wish without problem, but the second video file stops in the same way.

I’m not too familiar with the logs or debugging but the one thing I keep seeing is CAEsinkalsa errors or amlvideocodec errors right around when the issues occur.

I uploaded a debug log to hastebin to help with troubleshooting. This is my first help request so let me know if you need further information.

In the debug log I played the first file at roughly 17:41 and tried the next which failed at 18:03.

This only happens to video files. Mostly I use local media files from my NAS, but I have also seen the problem from Netflix-media.

Do you have some tips for troubleshooting this?

Best regards, Andreas

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Does this happen on v17.6?

Sam

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Is 17.6 Kodi 17? If so, I have not tested the problem on anything other than Kodi 18 nightlies.

I used Kodi 18 nightlies for quite some time without issues and then I updated to a version which caused a reboot loop. Then I reinstalled from scratch to a newer nightly which did not cause reboot loop but this problem with only being able to play one video file occured some time after.

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Yes.

6

Does uninstalling the Spotify add-on resolve this for you?

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I’ve tried disabling it, which did not help. I will try uninstalling and testing but since the problem takes some time to reproduce it might not be tonight.

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It looks like Spotify was causing the issue, will update if issue is seen without Spotify installed.