[alexvanniel]

.. the video does not come forward, the audio plays for a second or so and then all of a sudden dies (my receiver looses HDMI audio) but the timer/counter still plays. XBMC is then still responsive and I can go where I want up until I press X to stop the movie.

you described exactly the behavior of XBMC here ! After a freeze I do a login via TTY console, kill the xbmc process, start xbmc again and can play the video without problems .. it's unfortunately not directly repeatable, means it happens often but not always with the same videos; I'll check my logs ..

Greetz

LastCoder

You might want to post your log too. I had to post my xbmc.old.log though, since the system had to be restarted, I wanted to use the xbmc log uploader, and thus a new log was created. Luckily you can upload your .old.log with the logfile uploader though. Handy addon.