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Hello all,
First, I will thank the XBMC community for the nice XBMC software which is a real success!
Now, I've some issues playing video with XBMC (11.0 Git:20120321) : I have a mediacenter PC with XBMC installed on Windows 7. The PC (and XBMC) is turned on permanently. After a while (sometimes 2 hours, sometimes 1 day), any video started lags. ==> hard jerk during video playback. If I restart XBMC, the issue disappears and the same video playback is perfect without any jerk! (Note that my video output settings are configured for full-screen playback - adjust display refresh rate to match video - synck playback to display - AV synck method : video clock (resample audio). BUT changing those settings doesn't fix the problem)
Has anybody any idea regarding this strange issue/behavior?
Thanks in advance.
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There are certain skins and add-ons that seem to be causing memory leaks that could cause this issue. They mainly cause a crash though. There is also a known issue where waking up from standby, XBMC can have this issue until XBMC is restarted.
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I have this exact problem with my setup, and it survived two computers. Both were/are running Windows 7 64-bit, Eden 11.0 stable, both use the basic Confluence skin that it gets set to as default and as far as I know no other alterations that would cause this issue. I only started using XBMC with the Eden betas but I even had the problem back then as well as through the release candidates and finally with the official release.
What happens is that after a couple of days all videos are consistently jerky, as though they're losing 1 out of 8 frames or so in a deliberate pattern. My girlfriend never really notices it but I can spot the problem right away. Fortunately I was able to set an Alt-F4 and a Windows quick launch button to my Harmony remote using FLIRC so it's as simple as starting a show or movie, realizing the problem is happening, closing and reopening XBMC in a few seconds and then resuming the show where I left off. Closing and opening XBMC always fixes it for me right away, and it will always take at least two days to crop up.
This computer is on 24/7. No standby, no hibernation and it spends 99% of its power-on time sitting on the home screen in Confluence with the TV and receiver powered off. For what it's worth I use ffdshow tryouts for my decoder package. I'm not sure if that matters as it doesn't do it mid-playback, though. It seems to directly be tied into how long XBMC has been running.
The only hardware that survived the rebuild is an Nvidia 9800GT graphics card, but just in the nature of upgrading the computer I downloaded the latest (at the time) graphics drivers.
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Ffdshow has no effect on XBMC unless you are using the DSplayer builds.
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Yes, you are definitely not alone on this. I posted in another thread about stuttering on playback and when navigating xbmc. Reboot always fixes it.
I also leave it on 24/7 b/c I want instant access at any time. Very annoying that this happens. I hope someone can fix this at some point.
My only other question is: Why aren't more people posting about this issue? Is it more common in the windows builds?
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I get this occasionally, as a work-around I remapped the green windows button on my remote to quit XBMC and relaunch it using EventGhost.
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I think for now as a workaround, I will just have windows scheduler do a reboot every night like at 5:00 am.
Hopefully this will get addressed at some point.