[routehero]

Debug available here: http://pastebin.com/unBiHprD

Ubuntu 11.10
NVIDIA 295.20 drivers (GTX 570 hardware)
HDMI Audio
ALSA only (pulse uninstalled)

I can reliably reproduce this crash. I just cycle through Playing / Stopping my movies one at a time, and generally within the first 15 movies, it will crash.

Upon crash, the video does not display. Audio comes on for a few seconds, then dies out and the display is frozen.

[joethefox]

same as here? http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=125759

As written in the thread, when system seems freezed, just for my curiosity, try quickly to switch from fullscreen mode to windowed and check if the video appears again.

[routehero]

Interesting.

If I cause the video to hang and go windowed, video resumes.
If I then go back fullscreen, video continues.

I then cycled through my movies to reproduce the issue a second time in the same process lifetime, and instead did a stop on the video, which caused a full freeze in xbmc, and it wouldn't accept keyboard input any longer. This is a typical crash for me, where the video freezes and the wife does something and xbmc completely faults.

I killed xbmc process, but restarted but wasn't able to reproduce the initial freeze.

After a reboot, I was able to reproduce the freeze and confirmed for a second time that going to windowed would thaw the video/audio, and going back to fullscreen would continue to work.