On 25 Jan 2026, at 20:59, Stephen Morris<[email protected]> wrote:
What do I need to look at to try to determine why Kodi is hanging on Blu-ray
disc insert?
I’m sure you have have this suggestion for other issues you faced.
Check the system and user journals for errors.
Barry
I tried journalctl and got the 7 messages below for kodi, the first 6
were from startup but the kodi front end displayed and worked fine at
that point. The 7th message was when I inserted a blu-ray disc into
the player, but I don't understand why that would cause the hang?
Would the first 6 messages also explain why even though kodi seems to
recognise my monitor its resolution for full screen is significantly
bigger than what the monitor supports?
Jan 26 16:24:59 fedora systemd[2565]: Started
[email protected] - Kodi- Media Center.
Jan 26 16:24:59 fedora kodi[7038]: libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0
Jan 26 16:24:59 fedora kodi[7038]: libva info: Trying to open
/usr/lib64/dri-nonfree/nvidia_drv_video.so
Jan 26 16:24:59 fedora kodi[7038]: libva info: Trying to open
/usr/lib64/dri-freeworld/nvidia_drv_video.so
Jan 26 16:24:59 fedora kodi[7038]: libva info: Trying to open
/usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
Jan 26 16:24:59 fedora kodi[7038]: libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
Jan 26 16:26:42 fedora kwin_wayland[2909]: "Kodi" Stream error: no
more input formats
I think this means you are missing codec’s to handle the bluray disc,
but that is just a guess.
Barry
I would have thought I have the codecs already installed as I can get
the Blu-ray to play in VLC now after installing everything necessary to
rectify what it said was missing, but playing the disc in VLC produces
artifacts on the screen through the video and vertical bars all across
the border between the video and the black bars.
Having tried something else I don't think the last message is an
indicator of why it hangs as I tried loading a DVD into the player and
when Kodi mounted that it hung Kodi as well, but it did not produce the
last message.
The other thing I've noticed is if I run Kodi windowed instead of
fullscreen it starts with its window sized to the physical dimensions of
the monitor (4K) and when it hangs I can't use ctrl+tab to switch to
windows behind it and the mouse point won't move, but if I run say
konsole half screen and Kodi half screen when Kodi hangs I can get to
the konsole window to kill Kodi.
I'm only trying Kodi because I found a net article that said Kodi could
play Bu-ray movies. What I haven't done yet is install and try Kodi
under windows, but under windows the version of Laewo that struggles
with playing the Blu-ray under Wine plays the same Blu-rays without any
issue at all using the same USB Blu-ray device.
regards,
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