[NightStormWolf]

Debug Log: See post #4 for current log.

Having a weird issue where the audio will simply cut out and never come back. This happens mainly with live TV, but i have also had it happen with internet streams as well. The video will keep playing normally, just with no audio. When this happens, no other program can playback audio. Not getting any stuttering or weird glitches, the audio just simply drops and never returns, locking up the audio card in the process.

Here is a clip from the log near the start of the problem:

Code:

23:44:43 T:140212644030208   DEBUG: CDVDClock::Discontinuity - CDVDPlayerAudio::HandleSyncError2 - was:995965896.193095, should be:995933509.595182, error:-32386.597912
23:44:44 T:140212644030208   ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
23:44:45 T:140212644030208   ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
23:44:45 T:140212644030208   DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio::HandleSyncError - average error -2847270.098016 above threshold of 100000.000000
23:44:45 T:140212644030208  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 32
23:44:46 T:140211598624512  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 106 times.
23:44:47 T:140212644030208   ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
23:44:47 T:140212644030208  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 32
23:44:48 T:140212644030208  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 36 times.
23:44:48 T:140212644030208   ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
23:44:48 T:140212644030208  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 32
23:44:49 T:140211598624512  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 36 times.
23:44:49 T:140212644030208   ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
23:44:49 T:140212644030208  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 32
23:44:50 T:140212644030208  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 36 times.
23:44:50 T:140212644030208   ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
23:44:50 T:140212644030208  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 32
23:44:51 T:140212644030208  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 36 times.
23:44:51 T:140212644030208   ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
23:44:51 T:140212644030208  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 32
23:44:52 T:140211598624512  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 36 times.

I've tried to search and tinker with this now for over 3 weeks with no resolution. It only happens with Kodi. I can playback Netflix and Youtube in chrome endlessly without issues. I'm hoping someone here may have come across this issue before, knows a trick to fix it or can get me pointed in the right direction to resolving it.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[FernetMenta]

Did you try selecting the correct audio device which should be "SAM SAMSUNG on HDMI" in your case?

[NightStormWolf]

Did you try selecting the correct audio device which should be "SAM SAMSUNG on HDMI" in your case?

Yes, in fact i even setup an asound.conf file to default all audio to that device, in case it was a card issue. No luck there. Didn't matter which setting was used, default with asound.conf or the Samsung HDMI directly, the audio will exhibit the same problem. It's an odd behavior because the audio will cut out seemingly randomly and stay gone until i restart, but video playback isn't affected at all.

I've also tried restricting the output to a fixed 48kHz, because i know older XBMC versions had issues with that setting and HDMI audio playback.

[NightStormWolf]

Bumping thread, this problem has not been resolved and i cannot seem to figure it out. Any help is appreciated, including ideas or suggestions on where and what to look at.

New debug log from Kodi 16 Beta 5: Log Here (pastebin.com)

Playback of live TV channel starts at 18:42:13 T:140420347517120.

Getting repeating errors like this:

Code:

18:49:16 T:140417303570176   ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
18:49:16 T:140417303570176   DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio::HandleSyncError - average error -3832298.039291 above threshold of 100000.000000
18:49:16 T:140417303570176  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 32
18:49:16 T:140419216156416  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 79 times.

Why is Kodi skipping packets? This error repeats like crazy and is visible at the end of the log. There are no issues with video, the audio simply stops while the video continues on like nothing happened. The whole audio subsystem stops working when this happens. No other applications or programs cause this issue.

[fritsch]

As the issue is fully not obvious, can you please reproduce with OpenELEC from an USB stick?

Use one of the Milhouse builds you find in the sticky topic of this thread, please. Flash the img.gz after unpacking to usb stick and see if you get the very same issue. I suspect a driver / kernel issue or something but we will see.

[jeffski10]

Just spotted this thread as I am seeing a similar issue when using an .edl file to skip the commercials in a recording. I have the files still so could provide them if it helps for a debug attempt?

[loopy123]

Same problem here with similar error message.

OpenELEC release: RPi2.arm-6.0.1

Code:

NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 23
21:41:47 273082.531250 T:1336931392  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 51 times.
21:41:47 273082.531250 T:1336931392   ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
21:41:47 273082.531250 T:1336931392  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 23

[fritsch]

Please don't cut logfies ... nobody can follow.

[pablogott]

Any more info on this? I'm on a Raspberry Pi and can only get audio for 10-12 hours before it cuts out and needs a reboot. My files are all encoded the same (h.264/aac) but with different framerates (24/25/30). I haven't seen any pattern as to why it stops working except time. In case it helps here's the part of the log where the problem starts:

Code:

23:55:28 38587.070312 T:1968082944  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: /storage/videos/livemusic/Baby Talk 'I Know I'm Not Wrong' _ Live @ El Rio [HQ Audio + Video]-epScoZb6XbE-OOFTV Broadcast 720p .mov
23:55:28 38587.070312 T:1715074112  NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
23:55:28 38587.070312 T:1715074112  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
23:55:28 38587.085938 T:1715074112  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
23:55:28 38587.160156 T:1715074112  NOTICE: Opening stream: 1 source: 256
23:55:28 38587.167969 T:1715074112  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 28
23:55:28 38587.179688 T:1715074112  NOTICE: Creating video thread
23:55:28 38587.179688 T:1715074112  NOTICE: Opening stream: 0 source: 256
23:55:28 38587.179688 T:1689908288  NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayerVideo start, auto delete: false
23:55:28 38587.179688 T:1715074112  NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86018
23:55:28 38587.179688 T:1689908288  NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
23:55:28 38587.187500 T:1715074112  NOTICE: Creating audio thread
23:55:28 38587.187500 T:1847751744  NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayerAudio start, auto delete: false
23:55:28 38587.187500 T:1847751744  NOTICE: running thread: CDVDPlayerAudio::Process()
23:55:28 38587.187500 T:1828828224  NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
23:55:28 38587.187500 T:1847751744  NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86018, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through)
23:55:28 38587.210938 T:1689908288  NOTICE:  fps: 23.976024, pwidth: 854, pheight: 480, dwidth: 852, dheight: 480
23:55:28 38587.210938 T:1689908288  NOTICE: Display resolution DESKTOP : 720x480 (720x480) @ 60.00i - Full Screen (16)
23:55:33 38591.957031 T:1957688384   ERROR: ActiveAE::InitSink - failed to init
23:55:33 38591.957031 T:1957688384 WARNING: CActiveAE::StateMachine - signal: 3 from port: OutputDataPort not handled for state: 1
23:55:38 38597.187500 T:1847751744   ERROR: ActiveAE::MakeStream - could not create stream
23:55:38 38597.187500 T:1847751744   ERROR: Process - failed to create audio renderer
23:55:38 38597.195312 T:1847751744  NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86018, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through)
23:55:38 38597.195312 T:1847751744  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket duplicate 4 packets of duration 21
23:55:40 38598.406250 T:1847751744  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 3 times.
23:55:40 38598.406250 T:1847751744   ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
23:55:41 38599.613281 T:1847751744   ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
23:55:41 38599.613281 T:1847751744  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 21
23:55:42 38600.886719 T:1847751744  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 98 times.
23:55:42 38600.890625 T:1847751744   ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
23:55:42 38600.890625 T:1847751744  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 21
23:55:43 38602.136719 T:1847751744  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 56 times.
23:55:43 38602.136719 T:1847751744   ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
23:55:43 38602.140625 T:1847751744  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 21
23:55:45 38603.390625 T:1847751744  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 57 times.
23:55:45 38603.390625 T:1847751744   ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
23:55:45 38603.394531 T:1847751744  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 21
23:55:46 38604.644531 T:1847751744  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 57 times.
23:55:46 38604.644531 T:1847751744   ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
23:55:46 38604.644531 T:1847751744  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 21
23:55:47 38605.886719 T:1847751744  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 56 times.
23:55:47 38605.886719 T:1847751744   ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
23:55:47 38605.886719 T:1847751744  NOTICE: CDVDPlayerAudio::OutputPacket skipping a packets of duration 21
23:55:48 38607.125000 T:1847751744  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 56 times.
23:55:48 38607.125000 T:184775

[fritsch]

Please don't cut logfiles! This is sadly not a Debug Log.

Btw. are you sure that your Display is really 720x480 @ 60i? Looks like HDMI offline.

[pablogott]

I'm using a SD monitor with the composite out, what is HDMI offline?

[fritsch]

Post your Debug Log, please - we cannot even see which device is opened.

[pablogott]

My full log is too big for pastebin, but here's the beginning up to the part where the problem starts repeating, which is the bulk of the log:

http://pastebin.com/K9bgicaK

I'm not sure if I enabled the debug log correctly, do I have to see the text overlay in the GUI?

[fritsch]

Sorry you run an outdated not supported anymore kodi -> open your own thread in the Raspberry Pi forum, please.