Video Freeze During Playback

While playing videos from an NFS share on the same machine as the Kodi instance, I am reliably getting behavior that follows this pattern:

  • Screen freezes at a particular frame (same frame upon repeated attempt to play video), simultaneously
  • audio playback continues, simultaneously
  • controller and keyboard input both fail to cause results as far as I can hear, simultaneously
  • HTTP access, Yatse Android app acess, and AndUPnP fail to cause results as far as I can hear
  • Audio playback eventually stops

HTTP, Yatse, AndUPnP hopefully cover all the protocols I could be attempting to control Kodi. If I send the KILL signal to “kodi.bin” then “sh kodi” the screen remains on the mentioned frame, and both become defunct processes. If I attempt to reboot at this time the machine takes a long time to power down, which I interpret as it waiting for these two processes. The screen remains on that frame until power down.

I can post the verbose “all the thingsTM” log file upon request. My initial summary is that I only see a few error level messages regarding a failure on my part to mount the partition with my media on it at first which caused a failure to get the respective NFS shares and a few error level messages about NTP timeouts. There are no critical level messages.

I see a lot of info level messages containing the word Platinum which appear to involve connections to my router on port 80. I think it’s UPnP related. /DeviceDescription.xml is being requested.