[mikeb8591]

Running RC4 on a Windows 8.1 PC with the 3.3.8 NextPVR addon and NextPVR on the same machine; pausing, skipping, and resuming live TV in Kodi is still a risky operation for us. Many times it works, and then sometime it'll just cause a total hang. Unreproducible to order, but the problem occurs much too often to meet the WAF  

 There''s been a flurry of changes the last couple of weeks, 3.3.11 was just released.  Please give that a try, and let us know, it's had a fairly substantial rework of some of the time-housekeeping code that directly affects skipping, pausing and resuming.  Skipping can sometimes still take much longer than it should, but some of that is Kodi's method of requesting multiple (sometimes a quite large number) of seeks to perform one skip operation requested by the user.

Thanks!       

I was hopeful Mike, but it only took a few minutes to confirm that the problem is still there - reproduced quite easily by pausing live tv for a minute and then playing with skipping back and forward, pausing, starting, skipping.

paste.kodi.tv doesn't seem to be able to handle the 6.6MB log file, so you can find it here on OneDrive along with the Kodi crash report (doesn't show much) and the dmp file which points to an access violation in the crt:

Unhandled exception at 0x00007FF9DE80F938 (ucrtbase.dll) in kodi_crashlog-18.0-RC4 Git_20181228-14086a7bd3-20190109-181926.dmp: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x0000000000000000. 

 Hi Davel,

Do you have the kodi_crash.log file?  (should be a text file, not a .dmp file)

I've been testing on RPI, and haven't had any crashes, but that's linux, and you're on windows.

Thanks!