[Rayn21]

I have been running XBMC Frodo for years under the idea that if its not broke, don't fix it. Well, Youtube is an addon I use frequently and it stopped working. I run on Linux with Openelec 86_64 and I upgraded from Opecelec 2.0.0 (frodo) to Openelec 5.0 (Helix) then after I saw problems went to the debug version (5.95 Openelec - Isengard)

Well, Youtube works. Hooray. But the rest of the system is questionable. I am getting random stutters throughout the system (I had this in Helix also) I tried both hardware and software acceleration along with a number of other settings I googled. It stutters. Video also doesn't fit the screen right even after proper video calibration (overscan, I can't even see the little bar when I go forward or back)

I think I'd rather just go back to Frodo where things work and try and figure out my Youtube problem. Can I just drop the old files in the Update directory or is this not feasable? Doing a new install would be very problematic for me. I'd just like to go back.

If I thought I could fix the issues with Kodi I would. The stuttering, the images not populating, the Transparency skin that I use not being fully compatible ... its too much. I don't think I can fix it.

What is the best way I can go back to what I had? There was no full backup option in my old version so all I have is my userdata folder. I tried to paste in my debug log but its too large. I just took the top. It's probably not helpful. I can try and recapture it.

http://pastebin.com/FwuEGnWS

[fritsch]

Calibration is done with your TV, by selecting "Just Scan", "Fixed" or something else. The calibration will be resetted whenever refreshrate changes, if you do it via kodi. It needs to be done for every refreshrate and is the last resort, whenever your TV is not capable of setting a 1:1 pixel mapping.

Your log is from 5.0.8, so no way to downgrade. Install version 2.0 fresh if you want to get Frodo again.

[Rayn21]

Is it possible to troubleshoot why the video stutters? I might make due if I can solve that. It happens even on the menu while scrolling. What logging do I need to turn on to see what is going on? I turned on debug logging and tail'd the log everytime I saw a pause but there was nothing evident. Thank you for your advice.

[fritsch]

Yeah - turn on debugmode, restart OpenELEC and play exactly one sample, I suggest this one: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5572...lannad.mkv which has no audio.

Then post kodi.log and also dmesg | pastebinit

[Rayn21]

Thank you. Log is here: http://pasted.co/d60ba6f1

dmesg is here: http://sprunge.us/SBbd

Any insight is appreciated.

[fritsch]

Can you start with a clean profile please? And the only play the video I just gave you from local disk?

[fritsch]

What I can clearly see is, that you have disabled VDPAU - which is since OE the one and only acceleration for AMD radeons. Go and enable it, together with the VDPAU Mixer.

[Rayn21]

I had that enabled originally but was experimenting with different settings. I re-enabled it but still see the issue. I made a new profile but now the debug log isn't where it usually is (in the temp directory) so I have to search around and find where that goes and I'll try posting again.

[fritsch]

Enable it. Reenable debuglogging. Restart kodi. Play clannad. Post log. Gold night :-)

[Rayn21]

How do I do the whole clean profile thing properly? I really appreciate you replying to me.

[fritsch]

systemctl stop kodi
mv /storage/.kodi /storage/kodi-bak
systemctl start kodi

via ssh

[Rayn21]

Good morning. Here is my log:

http://pasted.co/77125065

and here is my dmesg:

http://sprunge.us/FYHW

Any advice you can render is sincerely appreciated.

[fritsch]

Disconts all over the place :-) Nice.

Do you have a UMA size in Bios, can you change that to 512 MB?


And if you are at it, upgrade to: http://saraev.ca/oe/OpenELEC-Generic.x86...d45dfa.tar (as the version you are currently running is a betaonly, which has seen immense fixes since then).

[Rayn21]

I changed the UMA size to 512MB in my BIOS and upgraded to your recommended version. It looks like it fixed the issue! I never would have figured that out, thank you!

Everything looks to be working pretty well now. I only have one issue where when I manually refresh a tv series to scrape the information again, it shows up with 0 episodes and a blank title in the listing. I am going to try and let the library get cleaned and see what happens. I lost a couple series that were properly named after it tried to go to tvdb. May have something to do with my upgrade.

[Rayn21]

Testing it out tonight I still have the random freezing Audio is fine but the picture locks up and then has to catch up. Not sure how to proceed.