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--- doc:appunti:software:kodi_send_packet_failed [2024/05/08 17:48] – created niccolo
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 ====== Kodi ERROR: send packet failed: End of file ======
+I got a very strange problem with some MKV video files ripped from DVD. The files contain one video track and several other audio and subtitle tracks.
+During playback, at about 00:02:00, the video got stuck and only the audio continued to play. Into the kodi.log we can read the following error message:
 <file>
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 T:472      INFO <general>: Skipped 511 duplicate messages..
 </file>
+I started the playback again and pressed the **Ctrl+Shift+O** to display the **[[https://kodi.wiki/view/Player_process_info#Player_Debug_Info|Player Debug Info]]**. I turned out that near the critical time point the **video queue saturation** parameter (//vq//) drops to zero and does not recover.
+Playing the same file in a GNU/Linux computer using **mplayer**, we receive the followgin error message:
+<code>
+Possibly bad interleaving detected.
+Use -ni option if this causes playback issues and avoid or fix the program that created the file.
+</code>
+This was quite surprising because the encoding and muxing were done with **ffmpeg**.
+Fortunately enugh it was possibile to fix the file files without re-encoding them. It was necessary to extract all the streams as single files and then re-mux them all together.