Pausing & Resuming - Audio starts but no video

[tomstephens89]

Using the Jellyfin for Kodi in Addon mode plugin,  I have for a long time experienced a minor issue where if I pause content for say a few minutes or more, then hit resume, audio playback will start but video does not. Hitting seek back or forward by a couple of seconds resolves this and playback continues as normal.

I have played with the step back on resume setting in the plugin (or whatever its called) but I don't think this has an effect on pause/resume in the player, only when fully exited for sync of the playback position. 

Any ideas or anyone else noticed this?

I use a Pi5 running LibreELEC 12.0.1. 

Thanks

[qwerty12]

Just my opinion, but when it comes to actual playback of content, Kodi isn't quite as reliable compared to, say, mpv. When I resume playback after pausing, the video's fine, but the audio's gone. Like you, I have to seek back for resumption of normal playback.
I know Jellyfin isn't to blame in the slightest because I use Jellyfin for Kodi in the Native (Direct paths) mode. I thought this was a peculiarity of using Kodi on an Android TV box, but the same thing happens on my Windows desktop.

I stumbled upon a three-year-old Reddit thread, with relatively recent activity, talking of the same problem. I wouldn't be able to tell you how to fix your problem, sorry, but I did find a workaround from that thread: the Unpause Jumpback add-on will automatically seek back when resuming video so that you don't have to do it yourself. You can configure the time the add-on jumps back by and to only do so if you've paused for at least x seconds.

[tomstephens89]

Just my opinion, but when it comes to actual playback of content, Kodi isn't quite as reliable compared to, say, mpv. When I resume playback after pausing, the video's fine, but the audio's gone. Like you, I have to seek back for resumption of normal playback.
I know Jellyfin isn't to blame in the slightest because I use Jellyfin for Kodi in the Native (Direct paths) mode. I thought this was a peculiarity of using Kodi on an Android TV box, but the same thing happens on my Windows desktop.

I stumbled upon a three-year-old Reddit thread, with relatively recent activity, talking of the same problem. I wouldn't be able to tell you how to fix your problem, sorry, but I did find a workaround from that thread: the Unpause Jumpback add-on will automatically seek back when resuming video so that you don't have to do it yourself. You can configure the time the add-on jumps back by and to only do so if you've paused for at least x seconds.

This is interesting. I used to use Kodi with a standard FTP backend for the media library but you know I can't remember if I had such pause issues back then as I have been using Jellyfin for nearly 2 years now.

I wonder if this is to do with the Caching function in Kodi and/or the chunk size.

I am going to have to do some testing and report back.

[tomstephens89]

The unpause add-on works great. The caching function has no effect on this problem even if disabled.