[uber12]

I am having problems with the Crunchyroll addon (with both versions - the version in the Kodi repository and the latested version from GitHub) with Libreelec 8.0.1 (Kodi 17.1) on RPi 3. (The same problem happens on both Kodi 17 and 17.1).

The addon runs, but after about 30 seconds of playing video, it begins to buffer, then plays, then loses all audio while playing back a static image once every 2 seconds (as if fast forwarding - but I'm not fast forwarding). The behaviour is almost similar to not having enough bandwidth to play smoothly, but there is plenty of bandwidth. If I revert back to an earlier version of OpenElec and Kodi (15), it's absolutely smooth playback with no problems at all. So the problem has happened only since upgrading to Kodi 17.

Note that the Video quality setting for all of this is 480p. I even tried 360p, it's slightly better, but still the same occurs.

I have been using the Crunchyroll addon on Kodi 15/OpenElec and also on Libreelec 7 with none of these issues for quite some time.

Is all of this something to do with MPEG Dash As it stands at the moment, the addon (both Github and Kodi Repository) is not usable. (Please note that neither the GitHub or Kodi repository addon crashes on RPi 3. It never crashes. Just the playback is the problem).

Note also that I am on a good quality ADSL2+ connection (not Fibre), and haven't had any issues with Crunchyroll in the past. And if I go back to a previous version of Kodi, everything works great. It's just since Kodi 17 that this prolbem now happens). I get 1.3 MB (Megabytes not megabits) down which is very good for ADSL2+ and can stream higher resolution video from other sources no problem.

Thanks for your help with this!