fbacher
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2 years ago I will look at that specific bug. I may have already fixed it. For about the past week I noticed a related nasty bug that causes TMDb trailers to display very slowly.
I am clearly not doing enough testing. The main culprit in my testing is that I am not 1) blowing away my entire trailer cache 2) not spending enough time testing each trailer source. I am too eager to release.
That said, I am working on the issue. I am working about 1/2 speed for the next few weeks on this.
The general problem with black screen has been around a few months, actually longer. I haven't noticed because I haven't tested long enough on the scenario that triggers it. The easy way for me to trigger it is to clear my trailer cache and then download TMDb trailers. I generally use two machines for testing. One, which is also my main movie box for home use, I don't tend to blow away my downloaded trailers. On the other, I do blow away the trailers periodically. However, if I also have it configured to download from multiple sources, then the problem doesn't stick out so much, since trailers play from the other sources.
The fundamental problem is that with no cached trailers, you have to discover everything and since there are a lot of movies without trailers you can see a blank screen for a bit. It can also take longer to download the trailer than it takes to play it. Normally I have seen this as a startup issue that goes away after a decent number of trailers have been cached. Over time I tweaked things to reduce the problem when downloading TMDb trailers. These include: at startup, first find all of the TMDb movies with trailers that are cached and feed those to the "random player". After that, resume searching for more movies with trailers. However, due to a change, this is not working so well, and hasn't for a while. I should have caught it sooner.
I also need to test your specific scenario, which I did a while back, but apparently not long enough.
Do you see any trailers being played?
bullwinkl
Upon running all versions released so far I get a black screen after license screen and the kodi log grows to an unmanageable size with an error repeated thousands of times in it. The error has a different trailer listed each time Kodi runs, but always the same trailer for the duration of the log, if that makes sense. It repeats until the log is too big for me to view. I've attached just a small section of the kodi log to show you what I mean.
logselection.txt