[Cloudhopper]

When playing 2-channel audio (mainly AAC and MP3 encodings) I've been bedevilled by a roughly one second audio dropout every 6/7 minutes of playback. This has been happening through several Kodi releases up to and including the 20.1 release. I've finally worked out that it stops happening if I reset the Stereo upmix option. I now let my AVR do the upmix, and the audio plays uninterrupted by any dropouts.

I don't know whether it's a Kodi defect or just particular to my setup - Ubuntu and latterly LibreELEC running on a Gigabyte GA-H110M-HD3 motherboard using an HDMI connection. If it's the former, I'm not asking for nor expecting a fix, I've posted this workaround here simply to help others avoid the frustrations it has caused me whilst trying to track down the cause of the dropouts.

[izprtxqkft]

being that it happened over multiple kodi versions and i dont see where it has been reported as an issue - https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues?q=stereo+upmix

across 2 different operating systems ubuntu and libreelec

the logical conclusion would be that it is your hardware, whether it be a cheaply made hdmi cable, the motherboard or the avr