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Video Stalls During Playback - doomedtx - 2018-11-19 iMac 27" mid-2010 OSX 10.13.6 with 2.93 GHz i7 and 16MB RAM Kodi nightly 18.0-RC1 Git:20181114-6f8f706bc2 Debug log: https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/kF7rj95QZz/ MediaInfo: https://pastebin.com/PvrNX9WD During playback, the video frequently (~once every 5 minutes) stalls while the audio continues to play. The video will eventually 'catch up.' Backing up and replaying the stalled area almost never results in another identical stall, meaning it doesn't seem to be a problem with the file. File plays in VLC without stalling. I've read through the forums and tried enabling/disabling hardware decoding, changed the buffers, tried lots of different settings changes in order to fix the issue. I've been through multiple nightlies of 18. I've tried deleting the addons directory and letting Kodi recreate it. It's hard to pinpoint the time the issue started because it was happening for "awhile" before we realized "hey, that's been happening awhile." I know that's not particularly helpful, but it's hard to stop watching in the middle of a movie to troubleshoot Kodi. The iMac is connected via Cat 5E to a Buffalo router that is connected via 2 Cat 5E cables to our Thecus N5200XXX NAS. The issue doesn't seem to be network related, but does seem to happen more frequently on higher-quality files. The full debug is posted above, but here is a snippet that seems to be relevant. Is there anything else I should try to fix this issue? Code: 21:11:05.966 T:123145524723712 DEBUG: CPtsTracker: pattern lost on diff 83000.000000, number of losses 1 Video Stalls During Playback - Memphiz - 2018-11-19 It seems that you have mounted your NAS in the operating system level. Doing it that way prevents Kodi from knowing that this is a remote source. Depending on what protocol you are using it might be a problem then. Could you try to use samba or nfs from within Kodi instead to access your data on the NAS and report back if this fixes the issue? Based on the log file the stream is indeed stalling on the filesystem level. As said - Kodi treats your NAS Connection as local storage and doesn’t apply any caching measures like with Network sources. RE: Video Stalls During Playback - doomedtx - 2018-12-03 I finally got to do this last night, and it seemed to work! We were watching a video that stalled and stuttered so badly we couldn't watch it, but after re-setting the library to use SMB directly instead of the Volumes directory, it played back flawlessly. It's hard to prove a negative, so the real proof will come over the next days and weeks as we see how playback continues to go. Thank you for the suggestion; I'm cautiously optimistic! |