I’ve got a very simple Kodi setup:

  • Arch Linux on a laptop behind the TV
  • Media files on a server upstairs, shared over NFS

I’ve been running Kodi quite successfully on this machine for years, but with the Omega update, videos play without audio for about 10seconds, then freeze. Sometimes if I wait a while, I see subtitles for the episode while the video is frozen. Music doesn’t play either. The interface freezes too, to the point where I have to kill -9 it. Switching from Wayland to Xorg hasn’t had an effect.

I tried deleting ~/.kodi and restarting, but nothing changes.

Has anyone else run into this?

  • RedMEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    Sounds like a NFS/kernel issue.

    Have you tested local files to see if it’s a network related issue?

    • Daniel QuinnOPEnglish
      1•7 months ago

      I did try mounting the NFS share to an actual path (as opposed to using Kodi’s built-in NFS handler, but as I don’t want this machine to have local files on it, I didn’t try loading them from a local path.

      What did work in the end was uninstalling, deleting ~/.kodi, and then re-installing via Flatpak instead of Pacman. I think the Flatpak version is older, so the problem isn’t happening anymore.