2015-08-26, 18:22
SOLVED!!!
I am not sure what has happened - but here are my symptoms (all involve playback of local video files on ubuntu 14.10):
Kodi 15.0 - every idk 10th video i would play would get shoved in the in the background (could hear the sound) but only the main menu screen would show. I worked around this by selecting the same video to play (again could tell both instances were playing at the same time due to the sound). then i would "alt+f4" the second instance and the original video would be there full screen. This was annoying but w/e it didnt happen all that often.
Kodi 15.1 - every file i try to play back plays the first 2-5 secs (sound and video) and then freezes. Cant do anything. "alt+f4" doesn't work. I have to alt+tab to desktop and open terminal and then do a "top" command to get the PID of "kodi.bin" and then do "kill -9 PID" to get kodi to close.
I tried uninstalling kodi with the commands from the wiki (thinking a fresh install might fix whatever is up):
sudo apt-get remove kodi*
sudo apt-get purge kodi*
however I dont think those worked because when i try the first command "sudo apt-get remove kodi*" it shows like 10 errors of something like "error: could not regex find crashlogXXXXXXXX.log"
any help would be appreciated..currently not on or have access to the kodi machine (cpu: i5 4440/MB:MSI Z87-G41)... i plan to try and get a debug log tonight
I am not sure what has happened - but here are my symptoms (all involve playback of local video files on ubuntu 14.10):
Kodi 15.0 - every idk 10th video i would play would get shoved in the in the background (could hear the sound) but only the main menu screen would show. I worked around this by selecting the same video to play (again could tell both instances were playing at the same time due to the sound). then i would "alt+f4" the second instance and the original video would be there full screen. This was annoying but w/e it didnt happen all that often.
Kodi 15.1 - every file i try to play back plays the first 2-5 secs (sound and video) and then freezes. Cant do anything. "alt+f4" doesn't work. I have to alt+tab to desktop and open terminal and then do a "top" command to get the PID of "kodi.bin" and then do "kill -9 PID" to get kodi to close.
I tried uninstalling kodi with the commands from the wiki (thinking a fresh install might fix whatever is up):
sudo apt-get remove kodi*
sudo apt-get purge kodi*
however I dont think those worked because when i try the first command "sudo apt-get remove kodi*" it shows like 10 errors of something like "error: could not regex find crashlogXXXXXXXX.log"
any help would be appreciated..currently not on or have access to the kodi machine (cpu: i5 4440/MB:MSI Z87-G41)... i plan to try and get a debug log tonight