Hey guys!
After upgrading to Krypton from Jarvis (on Linux Mint 17.3), unfortunately, Kodi has become unusable. 🙁
Right off the bat, in the menu and everywhere else, I’m experiencing severe tearing/flickering. It looks exactly like this guy on YouTube (so at least it’d seem I’m not the only one dealing with the issue):
I’ve tried toying around with everything I could think of: upgrading everything, switching graphics drivers, playing with settings (refresh rate, resolution, hardware acceleration, …) and nothing helps at all.
I can exclude many issues, since starting Mint (with Cinnamon) works fine without changing any setting; so hardware (especially cables, TV and stuff) and drivers seem to be doing their jobs. Also, everything worked fine before the upgrade.
One thing that does fix the issue: Changing “Display mode” from “Full screen” to “Windowed” (in System -> Settings -> System -> Display)—with the caveat that the system uses the top left quarter of the TV… :-s
(When switching back to full screen while playing a video, there is no tearing, “just” pretty bad flickering.)
Any ideas or hints?
Thanks,
Nicola