2014-09-18, 21:34
Today I suddenly got a audio cut-out issue with XBMC 12.1 (official build, march 17 2013) on a Mac Mini (2013 model, OSX Darwin 12.3.0).
Let me first describe my setup...
It's a Mac Mini from 2013 which I use as a dedicated XBMC media center in my living room connected to my Bravia TV via HDMI and a simple dedicated HDMI switch. I use wired LAN. No other apps are running on it.
Audio is through the TV (Audio output: HDMI, Audio output device: HDMI), not using an amp. currently.
The auto updating of OSX (currently version is Darwin 12.3.0) is turned off since I never use it for anything else than XBMC.
There is only user on the Mac Mini (me!) and no other users are messing with it via the network.
I (or anyone else) has not changed anything in my network, TV settings, network, NAS, Mac XBMC setup, etc. NOTHING.
Everything has worked perfectly for 1½ years since I initially set up the system, and I have not updated XBMC either since everything has worked fine for me.
But suddenly today... out of the blue, I began to get this issue:
While playing video files (MKV and MP4), the audio suddenly cuts out for about ½ second and then resumes. No video buffering message but video seems to fast-forward for a brief moment (½ second) to catch up. This happens aprox. every 3-5 min. Both with local video files on the Mac Mini's own HDD, files on my NAS and from my Windows PC's SMB share. So I don't think it's a LAN network issue. The issue happens with every video file I have tried and the files worked perfectly before (not corrupt video files).
I have tried to cold start everything - Mac Mini, TV, NAS, router, etc. No luck. I have disabled Weather, web-server, UPnP, etc. but that didn't help either.
Any idea what happened and how I can fix it? Can it be a corrupt database? Or is the Mac defective?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I'm using the default Confluence skin btw. Have tried to disable RSS feed also tried to uninstall the plug-in I was using. No change.
Let me first describe my setup...
It's a Mac Mini from 2013 which I use as a dedicated XBMC media center in my living room connected to my Bravia TV via HDMI and a simple dedicated HDMI switch. I use wired LAN. No other apps are running on it.
Audio is through the TV (Audio output: HDMI, Audio output device: HDMI), not using an amp. currently.
The auto updating of OSX (currently version is Darwin 12.3.0) is turned off since I never use it for anything else than XBMC.
There is only user on the Mac Mini (me!) and no other users are messing with it via the network.
I (or anyone else) has not changed anything in my network, TV settings, network, NAS, Mac XBMC setup, etc. NOTHING.
Everything has worked perfectly for 1½ years since I initially set up the system, and I have not updated XBMC either since everything has worked fine for me.
But suddenly today... out of the blue, I began to get this issue:
While playing video files (MKV and MP4), the audio suddenly cuts out for about ½ second and then resumes. No video buffering message but video seems to fast-forward for a brief moment (½ second) to catch up. This happens aprox. every 3-5 min. Both with local video files on the Mac Mini's own HDD, files on my NAS and from my Windows PC's SMB share. So I don't think it's a LAN network issue. The issue happens with every video file I have tried and the files worked perfectly before (not corrupt video files).
I have tried to cold start everything - Mac Mini, TV, NAS, router, etc. No luck. I have disabled Weather, web-server, UPnP, etc. but that didn't help either.
Any idea what happened and how I can fix it? Can it be a corrupt database? Or is the Mac defective?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I'm using the default Confluence skin btw. Have tried to disable RSS feed also tried to uninstall the plug-in I was using. No change.