10.14.6 issue with 18.3 and reverting refresh rate after watching video
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(2019-08-19, 20:27)neurosis13 Wrote: did a clean install help?
i have the same issue
nope,

What I do now is suss what the source frame rate is, alt-tab back to the Finder and change the refresh rate to match., then alt-tab back to Kodi and resume to watch.

This way, when the file ends, Kodi does not kill the WindowServer process, but just takes me back to where I started as per normal.  If I still try to quit Kodi from here though, Kodi still causes WindowServer to crash and kills all my network mounts too. Ouch… 

To get around this, I don't quit Kodi via Cmd-Q, but rather alt-tab back the Finder once more, and then I have an AppleScript sitting next to Kodi in my Dock called KillKodi.app. It's basically a shell script to kill the Kodi process so not to bring down WindowServer when Kodi tries to switch res back to what it was before launching. 

Such a PITA.  Am about to try 18.4, but didn't see anything in the release notes vaguely similar and so am not expecting much.

Still, I like Kodi and the above is more complex to read than actually do.
macOS 10.14.6
2018 Mac Mini (3.2GHz i7, 32GB, 128GB)
OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock
Sharp LC42D83Xreceiver (1080p) via HDMI
Sony STR-DE497 Receiver via Dock Toslink port
Kodi 18.3
Finder mounted SMB shares from FreeNAS 11 as Kodi sources
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RE: 10.14.6 issue with 18.3 and reverting refresh rate after watching video - by loungeroommac - 2019-09-09, 13:28
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