Video Stall issues since Win10 Anniversary?

For the last week or so, the reliability of the video has been quite unstable. It's almost as if the CPU usage maxes out, and the program crashes (clicking on the screen brings up the "has stopped responding" box), even though the audio continues - if I wait ~5-30 seconds, it will typically re-sync, although it has crashed completely a few times (after being basically bulletproof since the spring). I almost exclusively use x265, and it's not a file corruption issue (they play perfectly in MS's "Movies & TV" - ok, I lied, it does the same thing... $#!^). I had the release from April, and just upgraded to v17.B2 hoping that would solve the issue - and obviously it hasn't. Even more inconsistently, I can skip back 10 seconds or a minute, and the video will not stall in the same area. I have run the file from the local drive, from a NAS, and even from my RAMdrive, with no differences.

As I think more about it, when playing .avi or .mp4, the stalls don't happen. Is there something in the HEVC/x265 codec that could be causing issues as of late? I've been x265-almost-exclusive for several months, and this has been the first issues.

help, no internet connection message

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No Audio on Live TV during adverts

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Kodi 16 – Chromebook (Android) Video Always On Top

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Don’t scan folders?

Hi All,

My shows are arranged following "simple" in http://kodi.wiki/view/naming_video_files/TV_shows

So /data/Videos/<Show Name>/<Season X>/<Show>-<SXEX>-<Title>.mkv

This has been working fine for years but lately i've noticed some strange behaviour where shows are being matched to HiGH&LOW http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=301564&lid=7

Looking at the logs it appears Kodi scans the Season2 folder and tries to find a match via tvdb.. Tvdb returns a match http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?ser...anguage=en

My question is there a way to disable this behaviour?

Quote:16:51:28 T:139921469626112 INFO: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: Received announcement: VideoLibrary, xbmc, OnScanStarted
16:51:28 T:139921469626112 DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: No NFO file found. Using title search for '/data/Videos/TVShows/Mr Robot/Season2'
16:51:28 T:139921469626112 DEBUG: FindMovie: Searching for 'Season2' using The TVDB scraper (path: '/home/media/.kodi/addons/metadata.tvdb.com', content: 'tvshows', version: '1.8.4')
16:51:28 T:139921469626112 DEBUG: scraper: CreateSearchUrl returned <url cache="cache-Season2-en.xml">http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Season2&amp;language=en</url>
16:51:28 T:139921469626112 DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0x7f422c1ec3e0) http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?ser...anguage=en
16:51:28 T:139921469626112 INFO: easy_aquire - Created session to http://thetvdb.com
16:51:29 T:139921469626112 DEBUG: Get: Using "UTF-8" charset for XML "http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Season2&language=en"
16:51:29 T:139921469626112 DEBUG: scraper: GetSearchResults returned <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><results><entity><title>HiGH&amp;LOW</title><language>en</language><url cache="301564-en.xml">http://thetvdb.com/api/1D62F2F90030C444/series/301564/all/en.zip</url><id>301564</id></entity></results>
16:51:29 T:139921469626112 DEBUG: GetVideoDetails: Reading movie 'http://thetvdb.com/api/1D62F2F90030C444/series/301564/all/en.zip' using The TVDB scraper (file: '/home/media/.kodi/addons/metadata.tvdb.com', content: 'tvshows', version: '1.8.4')
16:51:29 T:139921469626112 DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0x7f422c1ec3e0) http://thetvdb.com/api/1D62F2F90030C444/...all/en.zip

wasapi exclusive mode isnt.

since 17b2 wasapi audio isnt taking exclusive access of audio for me in win10 anniv, even when set to keep the device alive constantly. Other windows sounds/notifications/alerts are mixed in the same as in directsound mode. Anyone else seeing?

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