Issues with Pi permanently left on

[Baz8755]

My RPI 2 is left on 24/7 and recently I found the GUI would lock up after a day or so, this was resolved by disabling the screen saver.

However I have also noticed that movies stutter, this is easily resolved with a reboot but I never used to have any of these issues a few months ago. Admittedly I was running a Pi Model B back then, just to add a bit more confusion.

[f1vefour]

Movies stutter when?

[Baz8755]

(14th Jun, 2015 02:12 AM)f1vefour Wrote:  Movies stutter when?

As soon as playback starts, I have tried persevering for a minute or two but it it doesn't clear up. A reboot always solves.

[Exnor]

I also have the same problem with the screensaver since the upgrade to 14.0 (Kodi)... since then i've disabled the screensaver.

Video playback, in my case is not affected.

[Skywatch]

I have pi 1 and pi 2 running 24/7 with no such problems.

I do have good quality power supply and power leads though, so maybe a place to look.

Also, what else is attached to the pi's?

[syco]

Same here and I have nothing attached to
my Pis and also I am using good energy
supply with them (2 A).

That is just since Kodi is there.

[Skywatch]

(22nd Aug, 2015 09:38 AM)syco Wrote:  Same here and I have nothing attached to
my Pis and also I am using good energy
supply with them (2 A).

That is just since Kodi is there.

Did you purchase and install the mpg licence?
What is the display device and how is it connected?
Put a problem movie on the SD card that the pi boots from and try playing it from there. That will eliminate any usb or network issues.
Do you have a volt meter?
What format are your movie files in?
At the command propmt type sudo uname -a and post the response.

[syco]

(22nd Aug, 2015 06:19 PM)Skywatch Wrote:  

(22nd Aug, 2015 09:38 AM)syco Wrote:  Same here and I have nothing attached to
my Pis and also I am using good energy
supply with them (2 A).

That is just since Kodi is there.

Did you purchase and install the mpg licence?
What is the display device and how is it connected?
Put a problem movie on the SD card that the pi boots from and try playing it from there. That will eliminate any usb or network issues.
Do you have a volt meter?
What format are your movie files in?
At the command propmt type sudo uname -a and post the response.

Yes, on both Pis both licenses are set.

The display devices are an LG TV and an Epson TW3200 (a projector).

The series and movies are playing okay. I have the stuttering while using
Kodi, like scrolling and so on. Disabling the screensaver did something
good, but still it is not fluid and hanging often.

No volt meter.

Files are all different, vom old avi stuff with mpg to newer .264 coded files.

Response:
Linux Xbian-TV 3.18.8+ #1 PREEMPT Thu Mar 5 03:43:34 CET 2015 armv6l GNU/Linux
Linux XBian-Beamer 3.18.8+ #1 PREEMPT Thu Mar 5 03:43:34 CET 2015 armv6l GNU/Linux

[Skywatch]

Where is the source of the videos? network? usb stick? hdd?

Try my suggestion of putting the videos on the Xbian boot SD card and seeing if they play OK from there. It will eliminate any issues with USB or network devices.

[f1vefour]

You sure it's not because of the limit GUI framerate option?

[maybeme]

I had a very similar problem, I had to reboot the pi before I could see a movie. After a while, I figured out it wasn't because the pi was already running 24 hours, but it was because the receiver and TV were switched off and on. My receiver supports CEC, but my TV doesn't, so I just disabled CEC, and now I can keep my pi running without having stuttering video or anything.

[Baz8755]

(30th Aug, 2015 12:07 AM)maybeme Wrote:  I had a very similar problem, I had to reboot the pi before I could see a movie. After a while, I figured out it wasn't because the pi was already running 24 hours, but it was because the receiver and TV were switched off and on. My receiver supports CEC, but my TV doesn't, so I just disabled CEC, and now I can keep my pi running without having stuttering video or anything.

Thanks, disabling CEC seems to have revolved the issue

[syco]

(19th Sep, 2015 07:53 AM)Baz8755 Wrote:  

(30th Aug, 2015 12:07 AM)maybeme Wrote:  I had a very similar problem, I had to reboot the pi before I could see a movie. After a while, I figured out it wasn't because the pi was already running 24 hours, but it was because the receiver and TV were switched off and on. My receiver supports CEC, but my TV doesn't, so I just disabled CEC, and now I can keep my pi running without having stuttering video or anything.

Thanks, disabling CEC seems to have revolved the issue

How to disable CEC?

[Skywatch]

Try...

hdmi_ignore_cec_init=1

Add it to /boot/config.txt and then reboot.

[syco]

(3rd Oct, 2015 10:01 PM)Skywatch Wrote:  Try...

hdmi_ignore_cec_init=1

Add it to /boot/config.txt and then reboot.

Thanks. Funny, it was there, already. I do not
know why.