[moveright]

recently I have notice that sometimes during a video playback (in this case, a tv episode of dancing with the stars), xbmc will randomly quit. what happens is I am watching the show and out of nowhere the screen goes black and it returns me to my appletv menu. I can launch xbmc once again and when I return to the show, it does not have a resume feature. I simply have to fast forward and, once I continue watching, it may or may not do this odd reset again. sometimes I am fine.

I first noticed it watching streaming shows from the food network via that addon. I just assumed it was a problem with their website and thought nothing more when shows would just stop and return me to the apple menu. After this LOCAL playback issue though, now I know there is something else happening.

oddly, I noticed that on my appletv menu, the MOVIES option stopped working. I used to be able to browse movie previews(I guess that was powered by itunes?) using the default apple provided movie application in atv but when I choose that, the screen blanks and then returns me to the menu, just like what happens randomly during a show playback in XBMC.

I'm puzzled. any ideas?


EDIT* I realize this is somewhat of a total shot in the dark, random question; I just figured maybe someone has experienced this same problem and had a solution. One of the things I notice is that sometimes while I'm watching a local show, there will be a message from XBMC that the cache is full. not sure if that's normal but it got me thinking, maybe I just need to empty some temp folder or some sort of maintenance related item. again, just guessing.

Its not that big of a deal but it is annoying. Last night we watched (3) 30 minute TV shows and it did not happen even once. I wonder if the apple remote battery is dying and its randomly sending keypresses or something stupid like that.

[Dabear3]

recently I have notice that sometimes during a video playback (in this case, a tv episode of dancing with the stars), xbmc will randomly quit. what happens is I am watching the show and out of nowhere the screen goes black and it returns me to my appletv menu. I can launch xbmc once again and when I return to the show, it does not have a resume feature. I simply have to fast forward and, once I continue watching, it may or may not do this odd reset again. sometimes I am fine.

I first noticed it watching streaming shows from the food network via that addon. I just assumed it was a problem with their website and thought nothing more when shows would just stop and return me to the apple menu. After this LOCAL playback issue though, now I know there is something else happening.

oddly, I noticed that on my appletv menu, the MOVIES option stopped working. I used to be able to browse movie previews(I guess that was powered by itunes?) using the default apple provided movie application in atv but when I choose that, the screen blanks and then returns me to the menu, just like what happens randomly during a show playback in XBMC.

I'm puzzled. any ideas?


EDIT* I realize this is somewhat of a total shot in the dark, random question; I just figured maybe someone has experienced this same problem and had a solution. One of the things I notice is that sometimes while I'm watching a local show, there will be a message from XBMC that the cache is full. not sure if that's normal but it got me thinking, maybe I just need to empty some temp folder or some sort of maintenance related item. again, just guessing.

Its not that big of a deal but it is annoying. Last night we watched (3) 30 minute TV shows and it did not happen even once. I wonder if the apple remote battery is dying and its randomly sending keypresses or something stupid like that.

I am having a similar issue and would like to know if there are any solutions out there.

My XBMC is stopping almost every time I try to play a new video (returning me back to the apple menu). I then re-launch XBMC, select the same video, and it will play fine. When that video is done, I run into the same issue on the next video file I try to play. I’ve noticed Updating Library will also cause xbmc to crash / close and return back to the Apple menu.

I don’t understand. Everything has been working great on my ATV2 until now. It’s extremely annoying

I’m thinking it may have something to do with updating aTV Flash (black) to version 1.4 (Mar-8-2012).
Any recommendations?

[Memphiz]

Post a crashlog (first link in my signature). If you have installed firecores media player and are using afp or smb as sharing protocol then its very likly that a known incompatibility between firecore and xbmc crashs xbmc. In that case only deinstalling firecores mediaplayer is a solution atm.

[moveright]

not sure if I have firecores media player. I just jailbroke with season pass on 4.4.4 and everything seemed to work. I installed nito and got xbmc through nito.

which appletv crash file do I need to paste, there are about 30 of them! is that bad?

thanks. while I consider myself no stranger to linux and certainly not a stranger to computers and software modification, I am, admittedly wet behind the ears on this type of investigation.

[Memphiz]

the latest appletv blubb blubb crashlog should be it ... look at the file date or the name (which has the date in it aswell).

[Jarviss]

I have this exact same issue and searched rantically but didn't find this thread so started a new one (Apologies) heres a link if anyone wants a read

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=126295

hopefully you don't think I'm hijacking your thread but it is the exact same issue so if a Mod feels like it could they move/merge please.

[Dabear3]

Post a crashlog (first link in my signature). If you have installed firecores media player and are using afp or smb as sharing protocol then its very likly that a known incompatibility between firecore and xbmc crashs xbmc. In that case only deinstalling firecores mediaplayer is a solution atm.

Thank you Memphiz!
That worked for me. I un-installed Firecore's Mediaplayer and now xbmc is running just fine.

[MattFrog]

Hello, newbie here

I have a similar problem to this.

I purchased an apple tv a few months ago which had been jailbroken (untethered) and since the purchase most films have been doing the exact same thing, pausing all the time (pausing for 5/10 mins or until it states chache is full seems to help for a little while) or simply just stopping and returning to the apple home screen??

It has become so annoying that I don't seem to use the apple tv much now which is a shame.

I am new to XMBC and not a pc expert so if you could help me in any way, be gentle

Many thanks if you can help !

[MattFrog]

Bump, anyone?