[vonson]

Hello everyone,

I have a major issue since the v21 update, that is most of my movies won't playback any more (device is a fire stick 4k max). The movie starts, then after 5-10 seconds just stops, or if I try to skip ahead/back it just stops. It happens when starting them via library as well as when starting them from their folder.
It happens on some files, not on others. It happens on movies that have played before as well as on new ones.

This never happened before I updated to v21.
I even checked with my older fire stick which still has 20.0 installed, and the movies in question do play there without any problem.

I have uploaded a log file to paste.kodi.tv (I don't know if this has worked): https://paste.kodi.tv/hujepowofu.kodi

Is this a known issue? Has anyone else experienced this? Is there anything I can do to fix this?

[Monamin]

I have the same issue on my 4k-Chromecast and not sure what's the fix is! I reinstalled the App as new and uploaded the movie files from my Network drive, but still the same issue !!
I tried with the Audio passthrough and "Caching", but still no use.

[vonson]

Over in another thread (https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid3194378) someone suggested it is caused by srt files present in the folder.

[Monamin]

Thank you... I just tested after removing the SRT, and it played fine. Thank you
will check the other post for a fix if any.

[vonson]

In case anyone else has this issue: Over in the other thread referenced above user chengtjaws proposes a quickfix:

To fix the srt playback crash issue, go to settings -> services -> SMB client and change chunk size to 64 kb.
Default value was changed from 64 to 128 in v21 update, see https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/24961
Hope it helps, worked for me at least