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Having the same issue and it's happening in any videos. Seemingly random crash when selecting a video. Audio starts to play, but video never starts and then xbmc completely locks up and has to be killed with a killall -9. I'll also try to get a crashlog and backtrace next time it happens.
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Same here. Not a specifiable movie, movie-resolution, Video-add-on or something else, seems random, but only when STARTING to watch a movie/video.
After the Screen freezes you can also kill X using SSH-Connection which will automatically restart X (and in my case also restarts XBMC). Then you can try again watching a movie till the next freeze...
System:
AMD X2 250
Nvidia GT 430 (Driver: 295.20 from Ubuntu-x-swat)
2GB RAM
Ubuntu 11.10 - 32bit
XBMC 11.0 RC2
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There are a couple of problems related to current nvidia drivers and multi threaded applications. We have observed many crashes on nvidia systems when UPnP was enabled. Try to disable UPnP client and server functions.
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2012-03-17, 14:58
(This post was last modified: 2012-03-17, 14:59 by joethefox.)
yes, 64bit ubuntu and as bonus with Sync Playback to Display enabled still no crashes (but this is independent from the upgrading to 12.04. Even this was resolved for me, I think was solved by xbmc team some weeks ago)
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I'm going to do an upgrade to 12.04 right now and see how it goes (been running on my laptop for a 2 couple weeks). Will report back in a bit.
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have you tried if the trick "from fullscreen to windowed" works? before upgrading try this, just to see if it you have the same behavior as mine.
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Interesting.
If I cause the video to hang and go windowed, video resumes.
If I then go back fullscreen, video continues.
I then cycled through my movies to reproduce the issue a second time in the same process lifetime, and instead did a stop on the video, which caused a full freeze in xbmc, and it wouldn't accept keyboard input any longer. This is a typical crash for me, where the video freezes and the wife does something and xbmc completely faults.
I killed xbmc process, but restarted but wasn't able to reproduce the initial freeze.
After a reboot, I was able to reproduce the freeze and confirmed for a second time that going to windowed would thaw the video/audio, and going back to fullscreen would continue to work.
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Could someone who observes this issue post a full debug log?