[jerndl]

Has there been any progress (resolution or workaround) for the VAAPI hardware accelerated playback freezing issue?

Symptom - During playback, the video freezes while the audio continues to play. Key presses are non-responsive and the chromebox needs to be powered off/rebooted to regain normal function.

Obviously disabling hardware accelerated playback prevents the symptoms however higher bitrate content playback is choppy, particularly when syncing to a 24p display. I haven't seen much chatting about this issue and haven't been able to find any solutions in the thread. If there isn't one, is this on the XBMC Dev team's radar?

Note: Running standalone openelec v4.0.6. The content is being pulled (over SMB) from a NAS on a 1Gb link. Same config/content works fine on an older Zotac zbox w/ celeron CPU and nvidia GPU.

I'm having the exact same problem "Symptom - During playback, the video freezes while the audio continues to play. Key presses are non-responsive and the chromebox needs to be powered off/rebooted to regain normal function." It doesn't happen all the time, although it "seems like" it is happening more frequently. I am also running standalone OE 4.0.6 but my content is coming from a 4TB WD MyBook external USB 3.0 drive. I set this up awhile ago during the early stages of the EZ setup script, before the Coreboot firmware update. Any Ideas? I can provide a log if needed. BTW during the "freeze" the Chromebox continues to work as a SMB server for other XBMC "clients". Thanks.

Jay