[SimbaG]

Kodi is running in a QNAP 453bmini NAS, and I install kodi from https://www.qnapclub.eu/en/qpkg/873.
The CPU of 453bmini is J3455, and system version is Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (Linux 4.14.24-qnap)

Kodi version is 18.8.0 Git 20200728.

If I play a video, The UI is twinkling, include subtitles, UI, and buttons.
I also tried kodi 19-alpha, and they are same.

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[SimbaG]

Thanks for your reading.
Any suggestions?

[SimbaG]

Once I turn the display mode from full screen to Window, the problem will be solved.
However, every time I open the Kodi, Kodi always uses the full screen mode. So I have to go to the settings and turn it to window mode.

[Klojum]

Kodi is running in a QNAP 453bmini NAS, and I install kodi from https://www.qnapclub.eu/en/qpkg/873.

Team Kodi did not compile that build for the QNap NAS devices.
So whatever beef you have, you will need to contact QNAP itself, or whoever created it for QNAP.

[lovemachine]

See Klojum's signature line as to how, but posting a log file *might* net some responses that could be helpful.  Otherwise, there isn't much to go on.

[SimbaG]

See Klojum's signature line as to how, but posting a log file *might* net some responses that could be helpful.  Otherwise, there isn't much to go on.

Yes, I understand Kodi might not have official support for QNAP.
I opened the debug log option, and I got a 300KB+ log file.
It is too large, so I put it in Pastebin.
https://pastebin.com/iHkvH9YT
Hope someone can fix it.
I also took a video, if you need it, please let me know.

Thanks.

[SimbaG]

Kodi is running in a QNAP 453bmini NAS, and I install kodi from https://www.qnapclub.eu/en/qpkg/873.

Team Kodi did not compile that build for the QNap NAS devices.
So whatever beef you have, you will need to contact QNAP itself, or whoever created it for QNAP.

I paste my log file at:
https://pastebin.com/iHkvH9YT
I understand my Kodi is an unofficial version so I might not be able to get support from here.
Thanks for your reading.

[Klojum]

I paste my log file at:

Code:

2020-08-24 14:46:21.533 T:140454714103936 NOTICE: Starting Kodi (18.8 (18.8.0) Git:20200728-nogitfound). Platform: Linux x86 64-bit
2020-08-24 14:46:21.533 T:140454714103936 NOTICE: Using Release Kodi x64 build
2020-08-24 14:46:21.533 T:140454714103936 NOTICE: Kodi compiled 2020-07-28 by GCC 7.5.0 for Linux x86 64-bit version 4.15.18 (266002)
2020-08-24 14:46:21.533 T:140454714103936 NOTICE: Running on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, kernel: Linux x86 64-bit version 4.14.24-qnap
2020-08-24 14:46:21.593 T:140454714103936 NOTICE: FFmpeg version/source: 4.0.4-Kodi
2020-08-24 14:46:21.593 T:140454714103936 NOTICE: Host CPU: Intel® Celeron® CPU J3455 @ 1.50GHz, 4 cores available

Since when do QNap NAS devices run Ubuntu ?!?
Because you started this forum thread saying this was about your QNap NAS running Kodi.

[SimbaG]

I paste my log file at:

Code:

2020-08-24 14:46:21.533 T:140454714103936 NOTICE: Starting Kodi (18.8 (18.8.0) Git:20200728-nogitfound). Platform: Linux x86 64-bit
2020-08-24 14:46:21.533 T:140454714103936 NOTICE: Using Release Kodi x64 build
2020-08-24 14:46:21.533 T:140454714103936 NOTICE: Kodi compiled 2020-07-28 by GCC 7.5.0 for Linux x86 64-bit version 4.15.18 (266002)
2020-08-24 14:46:21.533 T:140454714103936 NOTICE: Running on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, kernel: Linux x86 64-bit version 4.14.24-qnap
2020-08-24 14:46:21.593 T:140454714103936 NOTICE: FFmpeg version/source: 4.0.4-Kodi
2020-08-24 14:46:21.593 T:140454714103936 NOTICE: Host CPU: Intel® Celeron® CPU J3455 @ 1.50GHz, 4 cores available

Since when do QNap NAS devices run Ubuntu ?!?
Because you started this forum thread saying this was about your QNap NAS running Kodi.

Well, for your question, I don't know when do QNAP starts running Ubuntu on their x86 products.
As I said, my NAS is QNAP 453bmini, and its CPU is J3455 with an HDMI port.
I believe QNAP changed very less on Ubuntu. They use crontab, use standard Linux raid manager -- mdadm, use bash, and they offer docker on it.
All things are familiar, so I guess this bug might happen on other Ubuntu devices.

May I please take your time to have a look at the log file?
I tried Kodi 18.1 18.8 and Kodi 19.0 beta version. All of their UI and sub-titles are twinkling while playing. The log file is generated by Kodi 18.8 as you see.

Thanks for your reply.

[asavah]

While they are using ubuntu they do use a CUSTOM kernel Linux x86 64-bit version 4.14.24-qnap

Assuming they (qnap) or the packager did not touch Kodi code the problem you are having is with high probability related to in-kernel drivers or mesa gfx stack.
Report the issue to qnap support, they sell the product thus they have to provide support for it.