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2015-05-23, 12:37
(This post was last modified: 2015-05-24, 15:15 by Bart72.)
My TV (and with that my audio-system) is connected to my iMac (21.5-inch, late 2013, 3,1 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 1024 MB) as a second screen. Yosemite 10.10.3. Kodi 14.2 x86_64. Install Method: dmg. iTunes 12.1.2.
When playing music on iTunes I select Kodi with Airplay output in iTunes. I noticed my iMac is slowing down. Suddenly Kodi is taking 400-450 % CPU.
Overall, I'm delighted with all of your work, thanks a bunch!
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Does this also happen when you listen to local mp3 from within kodi? Also do you habe itunes on the same max like kodi or is there another mac involved?
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Ah, yes, the same use cpu-usage when playing mp3's from within Kodi (no iTunes involved). No other macs involved, just the one iMac on which iTunes is played. Just to compare: playing a 720p HD-movie with 5.1 DTS-sound uses about 10% CPU.
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So your using iTunes to Airplay to Kodi .....and both iTunes and Kodi are running on the same Mac, is that correct ?
Why Why ?
Only suggestion is to stop running both iTunes and Kodi at the same time.
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2015-05-30, 09:22
(This post was last modified: 2015-05-30, 09:33 by Bart72.)
Kodi is always-on on my mac. And yes, I can just put the sound through to HDMI. But then all sound is played there. I just want the music on the speakers with a different volume. All other sound (from system, applications etc) I want to get from the iMac-speakers. The iTiunes-to-Kodi system is perfect for this.
But apparently it's not the iTiunes-to-Kodi-airplay-system that hogs my CPU, it's just playing MP3's on Kodi that does that. Now I tried the strangest thing: turn off audio visualisation: and playing an mp3 within Kodi is using a mere 2% CPU, iTunes to Kodi through airplay at 15%, which is no problem. Though I couldn't believe that would be the solution as I think a simple visualiser never would use so much CPU, it was just that.
Sorry for (kind of) wasting your time on my 'problem'. Can be marked as solved.
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which audio visualisatiom did you use?
AppleTV4/iPhone/iPod/iPad: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much:
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HowTo setup NFS for Kodi:
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READ THE IOS FAQ!:
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It was projectM. And after looking into it I saw you can set the quality which changes CPU-usage drasticly. Setting it to 'low' it only uses about 13%.
Changing the 'detail' within FishBMC doesn't change anything, all take about 425-475% cpu-usage.
OpenGL Spectrum uses 8 - 9%, As does Waveform.
