[Milhouse]

I suspect that the problem is not hevc, but the software decoding at all. I reproduced the same bug with 264, when hardware decoding was turned off .

Yep (good point) - I've now been able to crash Kodi with a regular h264 movie that I never had a problem with when using hardware accelerated decoding.

Setting Video Acceleration to "Software" is sufficient, although it sometimes takes a few start-stop-start cycles (although in the log below, I managed to crash Kodi on the second "start").

Crashlog (debug enabled, no epel): http://sprunge.us/OAeE