2016-06-02, 01:26
I'm not sure what happened. I updated to Jarvis and every time I try to play anything in Kodi the video is only solid colors that are flashing. Any ideas on a fix? Thanks in advance!
2016-06-03, 21:00
I came here for the same reason. I have a working setup in my living room and have no issues with Kodi at all there, so I wanted to set something up for my parents and I used an almost identical pc setup (the only thing that changed is a slightly different video processor, but it should still be able to play video in kodi) and I get the same solid color flashes whenever I try to play a video but the sound works fine. Also I tried installing kodi on a laptop that I used a couple years back for the same thing and got the same issue, which doesn't make sense because it worked when I used it back then. So I had to test it on my desktop and it works fine there.
Any help would be appreciated, I will continue to search the forums for an answer since this is the first post I saw about it. Thanks in advance
Any help would be appreciated, I will continue to search the forums for an answer since this is the first post I saw about it. Thanks in advance
2016-06-03, 22:27
Not meaning to Hijack your thread Bingham but I don't want to create more of the same posting since I have already seen a couple in the last couple of day about the same thing but I am going to share my debug log here and hope for an answer myself.
http://pastebin.com/2zP6UGKZ
I also tested the video that I tried to play in Kodi on VLC player and it works just fine on the same machine.
http://pastebin.com/2zP6UGKZ
I also tested the video that I tried to play in Kodi on VLC player and it works just fine on the same machine.
2016-06-04, 11:56
under video options set "render method" to "software". if this doesnt work disable dxva2.
2016-06-04, 19:13
Awesome, thank you Ed76. That worked perfectly!
Worked perfectly!!! Thanks so much! I thought I would be bald from pulling my hair out trying to figure this out.
2016-06-05, 11:23
you both use windows, its because kodi version > 15 uses now directx 11. your graphics card is a little older and the drivers doesnt support dx11 very good. with "software mode" you get a higher cpu load, in general render method "pixelshader" or "dxva" is much better. if you got problems with stuttering/high cpu load update to newest driver you can find and try again with another render method or you have to buy a newer, cheap graphics gard.
2016-06-05, 19:32
Thank you again Ed76, that is good info and I will be sure to keep it in mind for future Kodi projects.
2016-12-02, 06:41
Super star! the render method fixed my hp mini flashing screen colors!
