2018-02-03, 19:54
Hi - I am using a nightly build from a week ago (18.0-ALPHA1 Git:20180128-f094478) on an Nvidia Shield TV and having problems with Kodi temporarily freezing when I try to skip some chapters on mkv playback. This happens only with some chapters, and only on some mkv titles. On others it seems to chapter skip fine.
Here's a scenario:
- start mkv playback, title plays back just fine
- if I do not touch chapter skip forward/back, title will play flawlessly, even as it goes from chapter to chapter
- if I try to skip forward, the video frame will jump to the right image but playback freezes and the timestamp for the current playback goes to 0:00:00. If I chapter skip again and again then it may play on another chapter just fine, but always occurs on the same chapters. If I hit Stop while it is frozen it takes about 30 seconds to unfreeze and return to Kodi menu.
- example, playback title is fine. At the 2 minute mark (or whenever) I skip to next chapter. Video image changes to first frame in that chapter but playback freezes, and the timestamp for the location of playback goes to 0:00:00 even though it should be something like 0:07:15. If I hit chapter skip again it updates to the next chapters frame and then freezes. If I hit skip again it may start playing that chapter back just fine, although sometimes without any audio (in which case I hit stop and then restart the title and all is fine again, until I try to chapter skip again).
With some titles the problem does not seem to occur. With other titles it occurs, but only on some chapters, and it is consistent. So for instance title 1 may never have any issues with chapter skipping. But title 2 will have a consistent issue when skipping to chapters 2, 3, 7, and 10 but all other chapters are fine. And always the same chapters problematic for that title. Issue happens when you skip forward to the chapter or back to the chapter.
Note that if I use the bookmark feature, the thumbnails for all the bookmarks are properly generated, however when navigating using the bookmark I will get the same exact freeze/issue as if I chapter skipped to it.
I reproduced the issue following these steps:
- turned on debug logging and restarted Kodi
- starting playback of a problematic title
- skipping to chapter 2 where the issue occurred, exited Kodi.
Please see the debug logs, split into two parts:
debug log part 1: https://pastebin.com/L3s0HC35
debug log part 2: https://pastebin.com/0vTdLiPX
Can you please let me know how to resolve it? Thank you very much in advance for your help.
Here's a scenario:
- start mkv playback, title plays back just fine
- if I do not touch chapter skip forward/back, title will play flawlessly, even as it goes from chapter to chapter
- if I try to skip forward, the video frame will jump to the right image but playback freezes and the timestamp for the current playback goes to 0:00:00. If I chapter skip again and again then it may play on another chapter just fine, but always occurs on the same chapters. If I hit Stop while it is frozen it takes about 30 seconds to unfreeze and return to Kodi menu.
- example, playback title is fine. At the 2 minute mark (or whenever) I skip to next chapter. Video image changes to first frame in that chapter but playback freezes, and the timestamp for the location of playback goes to 0:00:00 even though it should be something like 0:07:15. If I hit chapter skip again it updates to the next chapters frame and then freezes. If I hit skip again it may start playing that chapter back just fine, although sometimes without any audio (in which case I hit stop and then restart the title and all is fine again, until I try to chapter skip again).
With some titles the problem does not seem to occur. With other titles it occurs, but only on some chapters, and it is consistent. So for instance title 1 may never have any issues with chapter skipping. But title 2 will have a consistent issue when skipping to chapters 2, 3, 7, and 10 but all other chapters are fine. And always the same chapters problematic for that title. Issue happens when you skip forward to the chapter or back to the chapter.
Note that if I use the bookmark feature, the thumbnails for all the bookmarks are properly generated, however when navigating using the bookmark I will get the same exact freeze/issue as if I chapter skipped to it.
I reproduced the issue following these steps:
- turned on debug logging and restarted Kodi
- starting playback of a problematic title
- skipping to chapter 2 where the issue occurred, exited Kodi.
Please see the debug logs, split into two parts:
debug log part 1: https://pastebin.com/L3s0HC35
debug log part 2: https://pastebin.com/0vTdLiPX
Can you please let me know how to resolve it? Thank you very much in advance for your help.