Zotac Ad10 Nano - 1.95.5 Fusion x86_64 - Random Video Stutter then Freeze

[SplittingDistant]

Hi, Since (auto) updating to 1.95.5 I have a problem where video randomly stalls and appears to move a few few frames at a time in a very jerky slow motion until it eventually freezes completely. The remote control becomes unresponsive, and the only way out is by hitting the Power Button on the Zotac. I have tried a clean reinstall but the problem persists. I'm not 100% certain but I don't think it was happening in 1.95.4.
I've put this is "Miscellaneous" as I have no idea what's causing it!

[SplittingDistant]

OK, some more info for anyone who might be experiencing the same issues as me:

After my 3rd clean re-install the problem seems to have gone (fingers crossed).

On all clean re-installs I deleted the ntire contents of both the data and system directories, and installed a freshly downloaded and extracted "system" and "kernal" into the system directory.

The first two clean installs didn't cure the problem but the third seems to have done the trick (as I say, fingers crossed), the only difference was that I also copied the "system" & "kernal" MD5 files into the system folder on the final install and that seems to have made the difference - I can't understand how, but it worked.

[lrusak]

The md5 files are needed in order to update

[SplittingDistant]

Thanks Irusak, I was wondering!

Sadly my problem has reappeared - and I'm really at a loss with it. If I revert to the stable release everything is fine, but 1.95.5 just slows to a stuttering halt randomly on xvid/divx & mkv files - it can be fine for an hour then go wrong three times in the next hour, sometimes it plays for hours and doesn't go wrong at all. The symptoms are that everything is playing smoothly and then it goes slow-mo and jerky, and between 5 and 10 seconds later it freezes, and the only way out is a power switch reboot. I'm assuming it is a beta Openelec issue as 1.0.2. is fine. Apart from this issue 1.95.5 seems perfect.

Any suggestions would be warmly received!

[Jean-Max]

Hello,

On my ZBOX AD10 (Openelec eden fusion 64 1.95.5), I have also some freeze during video HD playback

-> Does 1.95.6 solves the problem ?

OpenELEC 2.0 (Beta 6) - 1.95.6 Fusion x86_64
OpenELEC PVR 2.0 (Beta 6) - 1.95.6 Fusion x86_64
on
http://openelec.tv/get-openelec

Thanks

[SplittingDistant]

Jean-Max,

I've upgraded to 1.95.6 and I can confirm that unfortunately the problem is still there.

Regards.

[Jean-Max]

Jean-Max,
I've upgraded to 1.95.6 and I can confirm that unfortunately the problem is still there.
Regards.

Thanks for your test
-> Is-it the same in 32 or 64 bit ?

I will not upgrade until this video freeze problem will be solved on AD10

Curious: a French Openelec AD10 forumer had his problem solved by upgrading from 1.95.4 to 1.95.5 !
Why such a difference with same hardware ?

It seems to me that when I was on 1.95.1, I had not this freeze problem
-> Was-it identical on your AD10 ?

Thanks for all

[Jean-Max]

... I also copied the "system" & "kernal" MD5 files into the system folder on the final install and that seems to have made the difference ...

So you Copy at the same time :
KERNEl, SYSTEM, KERNEL.md5 & SYSTEM.md5 to Openelec "Update" folder
and
KERNEL.md5 & SYSTEM.md5 in ...
-> what call you exactly Openelec "System" folder ?
( I see many folders with WinSCP but no folder with "System" name)

Thanks

[SplittingDistant]

Jean-Max,

My mistake! Sorry for confusion, I meant system partition rather than folder.

As I was doing a clean reinstall I copied KERNEL & SYSTEM and associated MD5 files into the openelec system partition, not the 'update' folder in the data partition, in fact I deleted the entire contents of the 'data' partition prior to reinstall to ensure a really complete reinstall from scratch.

I've only checked the 64bit version (I'm not even sure there is a 32bit Fusion build anymore).

I can confirm that the freeze problem was not present in 1.95.1 - I didn't notice it in .2, or .3 either - but I did not use those versions for a significant time, so it may just not have happened during my limited use. I first noticed it on (I think) .4, and it was definitely there on .5 nd is still there on .6

Have a look at my other active post entitled "Dual Boot Openelec / Linux Mint but with XBMC also on Linux Mint" as I'm beginning to think these issues are linked.

Thanks.

[Jean-Max]

OK !!

It was not easy for me to find "openelec system partition" ..:blink:

From a PC with WinSCP, it's named /flash/ (under /root/) and I can see there KERNEL & SYSTEM files
(system Folder is not seen on Windows with \Openelec access )

With WinSCP, /update/ folder is founded in /root/Storage/Update/

NB:
Some difference after boot from an Ubuntu live USB boot key :
/System/ is mounted in /media/System/

With Ubuntu live, and from terminal in user root (sudo -s), it's possible to copy KERNEL and SYSTEM from an second USB key to the Openelec system folder :
This possibility saved me some minutes ago :
I did a big mistake :
I upgraded my HD-ID11 (ION) with the last FUSION upgrade, so : Total crash !

All is OK after copying the right files in /System/