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I am using OMXPlayer to play some HD videos on my RaspberryPi 3 with latest Raspbian Jessie image. It run perfectly for some time (sometimes 20 minutes, sometimes 3 hours, sometimes 5 hours) but then it freezes. CPU and RAM values are normal. I am running OMXPlayer with this command:

/usr/bin/omxplayer --no-osd --loop myVideo.mp4

and after OMXPlayer freezes I get this message in console:

omxplayer.bin: OMXCore.cpp:785 OMX_ERRORTYPE COMXCoreCOmponent:FreeInputBuffers(): Assertion 'm_omx_input_buffers.size() == m_omx_input_available.size()' failed.

Googled and only advice that I found to solve this problem is to set GPU memory to 128 instead to default 64, I did it, but nothing changed.

Anybody here had similar experience with OMXPlayer ? Is there any way to fix this ?

Teemo
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It was because old raspberry pi firmware and old omxplayer version, so I recommend you to update firmware by:

sudo rpi-update

and to install and download OMXPlayer version 6c90c75 from this link to avoid freezing problems:

http://omxplayer.sconde.net/

Teemo
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    I just updated the RPi 3 firmware and made sure I was using the latest omxplayer build (dfea8c9), unfortunately, it is still freezing. Any ideas? – xfx Nov 26 '16 at 13:51
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Based on this thread, I discovered that installing an old version of Omxplayer (from Mar 9, 2014) solved my freezing issue. You can download old versions of Omxplayer here and install the downloaded .deb file using:

 sudo dpkg -i /path/to/your_install_file.deb
Paul Slocum
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I had a similar problem here... in my case, I was pushing a video from a nodeJS server on the local network. If I changed the video at the server, OMXPlayer would just crash.

I removed the OMXPlayer --loop flag. Instead, perform a while loop in a bash script. This solution fixed it for me... 

#!/bin/bash
sleep .5
while [1]
do
    omxplayer -b -r -live http://192.168.1.16:3000/fileserver/channelA
done
zipzit
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