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Hello

First thanks for this amazing distros, it is working great and far smooth than raspbian with xbmc over it.

I have a problem.

When i play a video in xbmc, it happens that there is an interemittent black screen of 0.5 seconds.

It is not regular at all, sometimes i got 4 black screen in a row, then nothing in the next 5 minutes.

Some videos have this problem, others have not. of course it is not in the video.

I suspect some kind of overflow, but i cannot see any terminal output to check on that.

So here my questions :
Do you have any ideas what can be the cause? and how can i fix this?

Is there any way to get the terminal output of the video player, in a log file for example ?

Is the video player used by xbmc omxplayer? i've tried to use omxplayer to play the video but the package is not even installed, so how xbmc play videos?

Thanks

Edit:
Here are some mediainfo :

NO BLACK SCREEN FILE :

Terminal

General
Unique ID : 179965827406413707256323989306792786177 (0x876428584449BF05ACF59C3F7B48B901)
Complete name : b.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 434 MiB
Duration : 43mn 36s
Overall bit rate : 1 393 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-03-19 15:52:52
Writing application : mkvmerge v5.0.0 ('Die Wahre Liebe') built on Sep 25 2011 20:33:49
Writing library : libebml v1.2.2 + libmatroska v1.3.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 43mn 36s
Bit rate : 1 200 Kbps
Width : 1 024 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.085
Stream size : 366 MiB (84%)
Writing library : x264 core 98 r1649 c54c47d
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=2 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x111 / me=hex / subme=6 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=30 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=1200 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 43mn 36s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 59.9 MiB (14%)

BLACK SCREEN FILE:

Terminal

General
Unique ID : 218862345834585499347943933466949820798 (0xA4A75AC40FD504B2A2AD961E7C91A17E)
Complete name : a.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 502 MiB
Duration : 44mn 13s
Overall bit rate : 1 587 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-03-19 09:50:04
Writing application : mkvmerge v5.0.0 ('Die Wahre Liebe') built on Sep 25 2011 20:33:49
Writing library : libebml v1.2.2 + libmatroska v1.3.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L3.2
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 8 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 44mn 13s
Bit rate : 1 200 Kbps
Width : 1 024 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.085
Stream size : 370 MiB (74%)
Writing library : x264 core 98 r1649 c54c47d
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=8 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x131 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=6 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=1200 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 44mn 13s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 121 MiB (24%)

For me the main difference is the audio, black screen one got 6 channels.
I'm gonna check on that.

I was quite right, this black screen was an audio problem.

In xbmc settings, system->audio , i was configured in 7.0 , i've changer it to 2.0 and this black screen problem reduced a lot, but still not completelly.

anyone having same problem ?

i've found how to get the log, enable logging in system->logging then look in .xbian/temp/xbmc.log, but it's pretty extensive and incomprehensible.

I'm still unable to find the actual path to the omxplayer used in xbmc. or may be it is built inside it?

Omxplayer is built directly into the xbmc.bin

well thank you, i gonna use my raspbian image for direct use of omxplayer i guess.

(31st Mar, 2013 06:31 AM)GloW Wrote: [ -> ]well thank you, i gonna use my raspbian image for direct use of omxplayer i guess.

sudo apt-get install omxplayer
sudo service xbmc stop

I have the same problem, I did a fresh install and the first 3 days did work perfectly.. then it started again.
I dont want to switch to another distro cuz I like xbian, but I have no choice until someone find the solution..

Is "output to all speakers" in System -> Audio set?

This has been known to cause problems, so if it is set, remove it and see if that improves things.

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