[jlhinson]

I have Arch Linux (x86_64) installed on a laptop and XBMC 12.0 installed from the community repo. Everything is working well except for playback of my music files. I can play movies with no issues, but my music starts to stutter as soon as I start playing it. My visualizations are not working either, so I turned them off to ensure that was not causing the problem. I have noticed in debug that my cpu usage jumps to near 100% during music playback as well. By debug log shows a repeated PulseAudio warning of "stream underflow" the entire time I am trying to play the music. I am assuming the problem may have something to do with the buffers. I have no clue where to start, so I turned to the forums for some help. Any help will be greatly appreciated! I am a new member and this is my first post, so please be gentle.

XBMC Debug Log File

[ejik]

Same bug.

[Flow_]

I reported the same problem here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1354645

[vostok4]

There are a couple of fixes to potential help you with this. Use xbmc-git to try it out from AUR.

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/2320

You can also try to cherry pick these changes:
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/2240

Good luck.

[fritsch]

The first one is ALSA only, I don't think it will help in the pure pulseaudio case. But please test the second one - cause if it helps, it can go in.

So if you have valid results and tested the patch. Please state on github, that it works, supply two logfiles with and without the patch. (As github is a development platform, ... you know the rest - don't spam 100 people without new and valid information).