PerfectBlue97
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I have a Zotac zbox AD02 running Openelec, and for a while I've been experiencing audio drops.
The sound just stops, and then come back again after a few seconds.
Recently, the screen has gone black for a couple of seconds as well, and the audio has been dropping out more as well. More recently I've been getting a popping noise from my speakers, and some elements of the screen have turned red. Like pure 255,000,000 red. Maybe 5 of 6 times in a 2 hour movie. The dropouts and screen corruption is almost totally random. It happens with both music and video, and at different places each time. It happens with music downloaded from 100% legal DRM free website sites, video from legal DRM free sources, and files that I've made myself using 3 or so different software packages. All of the files play perfectly on my other computers. It also happens with Youtube videos.
Strangely, it usually only starts about 10 minutes into a video. Except for with youtube in which case it could happen randomly.
There is absolutely nothing in any of the Openelec diagnostics (I had other thread open looking for software problems). Nobody on this forum, on the XBMC forum or the Openelec forum could find anything at all in the log files.
So I'm thinking maybe that this is a hardware problem rather than a software one.
The zBox is connected to my Samsung amp via HDMI. I've tried changing the HDMI cable for a much better one, and I've tried different sockets on my amp as well. This is my third media player and it's the only one that has this problem, so I don't think that my AMP is broken.
Wiggling the HDMI cable doesn't seem to cause\resolve the problem.
I've tried booting from a clean SD card and a clean internal HD (Both fresh installs with no plugins). Same problem with both.
Could it be some kind of overheat or memory problem, or a problem on the MB?
If so, what is the best way of finding it given Openelec's limited diagnostic capabilities?
The sound just stops, and then come back again after a few seconds.
Recently, the screen has gone black for a couple of seconds as well, and the audio has been dropping out more as well. More recently I've been getting a popping noise from my speakers, and some elements of the screen have turned red. Like pure 255,000,000 red. Maybe 5 of 6 times in a 2 hour movie. The dropouts and screen corruption is almost totally random. It happens with both music and video, and at different places each time. It happens with music downloaded from 100% legal DRM free website sites, video from legal DRM free sources, and files that I've made myself using 3 or so different software packages. All of the files play perfectly on my other computers. It also happens with Youtube videos.
Strangely, it usually only starts about 10 minutes into a video. Except for with youtube in which case it could happen randomly.
There is absolutely nothing in any of the Openelec diagnostics (I had other thread open looking for software problems). Nobody on this forum, on the XBMC forum or the Openelec forum could find anything at all in the log files.
So I'm thinking maybe that this is a hardware problem rather than a software one.
The zBox is connected to my Samsung amp via HDMI. I've tried changing the HDMI cable for a much better one, and I've tried different sockets on my amp as well. This is my third media player and it's the only one that has this problem, so I don't think that my AMP is broken.
Wiggling the HDMI cable doesn't seem to cause\resolve the problem.
I've tried booting from a clean SD card and a clean internal HD (Both fresh installs with no plugins). Same problem with both.
Could it be some kind of overheat or memory problem, or a problem on the MB?
If so, what is the best way of finding it given Openelec's limited diagnostic capabilities?