SOLVED: Hanging in Linux Only

[mdkb]

You should be using Intel QSV.  

okay, I followed all the various instructions. I tested it on the offending movie with pgsubs and though it still crashes on it even if not using the subs, I can at least stop the movie and back out, which I couldnt before. I also noticed the movie says it is AV1 codec but I switched all that off. Anyway, I will test it with other movies and see how it goes.

Thanks for all the help. Its been really useful. I'll let you know how it goes.

EDIT: actually it had worse problems with not playing some movies until I adjusted a few other settings as well:
In the logs I could see "Current HLS implementation doesn't support non-keyframe breaks but one is requested"
which suggested there was still transcoding issues and I dont know what fixed it but I changed the following:


I tried setting hardware acceleration in playback\Trickplay.
checked Enable hardware decoding
Enable hardware accelerated MJPEG encoding

went back into playback/transcoding to change some stuff:

- unchecked "Prefer OS native DXVA or VA-API hardware decoders"
- unchecked "mpeg2"
- disabled both "low-power encoding" options as it said it needs configuring on linux to use.
- checked "Enable fallback fonts" in \playback\transcoding settings.

something fixed everything because now even the pgsub video played so long as I used the srt subtitles.

so this is now fixed so far. if I have other issues I will report them.