Question Kodi on Raspberry Pi 4 ?

[1cherokee79]

I had been watch my MP4s on the roku for the last few months. I have many videos on a portable hard drive, plug and play types https://www.amazon.com/s?k=portable+hard+drives&crid=9JRZBJK488PX&sprefix=portable+hard+drive,aps,330&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
and everything went smooth.

Here lately, i had got my Raspberry Pi 4 going. I removed the Roku and connected the Raspberry to the TV and after months of editing on my videos, I loaded the on a portable hard drive and connected it to the Raspberry Pi 4. Everything is good and great but there's one issue i have. As i started watching my videos, every once in awhile, I can be watching my show and suddenly it freezes, it's not the drive, no errors there, i scan the drive before using then. It must be that Kodi itself comes to a freeze during the show. everything else is good accept for the sudden freeze in the show.

 

[MishterKirby]

What distribution are you running it on? And what SD card are you using?
And does everything freeze, or just video playback?

 

[1cherokee79]

THe SD card that i got Kodi on is a Sandisk and i think it around 60 something gb https://kodi.tv and so far when i start watch my tv shows, the playback goes good. There are times, maybe once per show, the video just stop like pausing a DVD

 

[MishterKirby]

Does it completely freeze, though, or can you still access the menus? What's the rating on the power supply you use? And what class SD card is it?

Speed Class | SD Association

www.sdcard.org

Seems to me it's either a corrupt install, or the card/power supply is not adequate, causing the Pi to hang

 

[1cherokee79]

you know, now that i think about it, when watching my playbacks, i notice up in the right corner of the tv screen is a little yellow lighting bolt symbol.

 

[MishterKirby]

Seems to be an inadequate power supply, since you're seeing that icon, according to the official wiki

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/configuration.html#firmware-warning-icons

I would suggest that you try another power supply, and see if the issue persists

 

[1cherokee79]

this is my build
https://postimg.cc/CZPQhYKq

In my build, on my Raspberry Pi 4, I have a RemotePi board usb-c connection so i would need a power supply for the Raspberry Pi 4 that has the USB-C connection for the RemotePi Board https://www.msldigital.com/collecti...-4-external-ir-and-led?variant=30268836610182

 

[MishterKirby]

this is my build
https://postimg.cc/CZPQhYKq

What's the rating of the wall adapter? Seems to me like that fan + hard drive are overloading it
Have you tried without the fan?

In my build, on my Raspberry Pi 4, I have a RemotePi board usb-c connection so i would need a power supply for the Raspberry Pi 4 that has the USB-C connection for the RemotePi Board

All power supplies made for the Raspberry Pi 4 are USB-C, such as the official one here

https://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-Model-Official-SC0218-Accessory/dp/B07W8XHMJZ/ref=asc_df_B07W8XHMJZ/

 

[1cherokee79]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TYQRXTK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[MishterKirby]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TYQRXTK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This should be enough to run it without problems