2024-07-16, 17:08
(2024-03-12, 16:52)kingsombra Wrote: As of the 7.0.3 versions, I have been seeing video freezes when playing very long ambience videos.
(I like to watch these to help me sleep)
At just around 7 hours to 7.5 hours, a video will freeze and the sound is a nasty whine, (waking me up )
This didn't seem to happen with 7.0.2. Its fairly repeatable with 7.0.3.
This does not happen when playing a very long video, stored on my NAS and playing through UPNP.
Therefore, I do not think its a recent update of Kodi 20.5, causing it.
A couple of ideas I had are...
-Somehow a memory leak bug worked its way into 7.0.3.
-Google/youtube, with their anti add-block zeal, has put in code to watch if mid-role adds are running and cuts off videos at 7 hours if not.
Things like this are really tough to diagnose since it takes so long to reproduce it, causing insanely long debug logs.
Anyway I just wanted to bring this up in case someone wants to look at it.
I rarely watch videos played directly from youtube anyway.
As of the latest and greatest versions 7.0.8 and 7.0.9betas long ambient videos no longer hang, they just crash.
How to repeat...
Fresh install youtube addon.
Do not create an account.
Put a long video in a ".strm" file.
Example:
---Calm_Fantasy_Medieval_Night_8_hours.strm---
plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=u3TnmAB693M
------------------------------------------------------------------
Play the strm file.
Wait for the crash at somewhere between 4 to 6 hours.
NEVER MIND. I am starting to think this is being caused by Spectrum cables ^0@$&*&Med midnight to 6am maintenance window.