[drewg]

[quote='Wilberry' pid='1840520' dateline='1416410783']

they all crash when left on buffering too long or if the buffer reaches too high ( even in software encoding mode )
they all crash on hardware encoding (with both options on, faster than no options on)

the best I could get was software encoding mode (I can't tell much difference of the crashing in any versions, they all crash)

Description of crashing:
with hardware encoding on, streaming playback wont last but a few minutes (5 to 20 minutes)
with software encoding on, streaming playback crashes randomly sometimes it doesn't.
the "crash" can be described as a full stop and close of xbmc, back to the home screen of nexus player (with a dialog that says xbmc has stopped responding).

(these are compared to my nexus 5 (xbmc 13.2, android 4.x) experiences, which rarely or ever crash)

This is with heavy usage, EG: xbmc is all I currently use for media perhaps 3 to 4 hours at night.

I've been running a few nightlies between Kodi beta2 and Kodi beta3, and I have had no crashing once I disabled mediacodec.

Or.. Hmmm.. My usage is ~1-2 hours per night. Mostly NFL Rewind via the NFL Gamepass add-on, and PlexBMC, mostly watching the Daily Show plex channel. Both of these are low bitrate ~4Mb/s H.264 video. Non-Xbmc time is spent mostly in youtube. What do you watch? BD rips? Maybe you're stressing it more than me.

Hmm.. Maybe your problem is heat related? I'm always suspicious of these tiny / pretty cases designed by marketers. My device is velcroed-taped to the back of my TV, so it gets pretty good air flow, and the metal back of the TV probably acts as a heat sink.


Drew