Kodi 17 on Ubuntu 16.04 – Freezes, crashes and flickers

Hi,

I’ve been using Kodi(/Xbmc) for many years with much pleasure, but lately I am at a loss. After many hours of trying to fix things, I’m coming to ask for the communities’ input Smile

My setup:

  • Kodi 17RC3
  • Ubuntu 16.04 / x86_64
  • Intel® Core™ i3-3225
  • Using HDMI to a plasma TV
  • Using optical out for audio

My issue:

  • Random flickering when playing video (depending on the video, sometimes frequent, sometimes less frequent, sometimes no issue at all);
  • Freezing interface, often when searching through a video, sometimes when a video ends. Only solution is to ‘kill’ kodi, or to reboot;
  • Crashing, sometimes when searching through a video, sometimes when a video ends.
  • Freezing on alt-tab, mostly when playing video but also (sometimes) when just showing the default kodi interface
  • Above happens pretty much with every codec & container

What I’ve tried so far:

  • Updating Intel drivers (with 01.org tools)
  • Disabling / enabling VAAPI render method
  • Installing the latest Kodi (hoping for a fix Wink)

Crashlog (of a ‘random’ crash) can be found here: http://pastebin.com/Zb2j2WBf
Regular log (of a typical ‘freeze’) can be found here: http://pastebin.com/SmqTg1YZ (freeze happens around 11:28, log entries continue after)

Thanks so much for any help you’re able to offer!

Warner

p.s. thanks for all the fantastic work to all the developers out there! Kodi is a great program and keeps on getting better with each release!