[Q] Video playback issues. - Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So, not quite sure how to explain this but I'll give it a try
Every time I try to watch a movie on xbmc on my fire tv I get this weird issue after a few minutes playing the video, the screen goes black and there is just a " band " on the top of the screen with green and other weird colored " pixels " it's like big squares in mostly green but also blue and pink and so on,, sound works just fine and continues as normal, as soon as I stop the video and go back to xbmc everything looks just as normal, any idea why this is happening? And what it could be?
Amazon fire tv
Xbmc Gotham 13.1

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Same issue here. Are you using the Krypton Nightlies?
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