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Hi,

Using Frodo on an AppleTV2, but I have a slight problem getting Karaoke to work properly.
I read the Karaoke Howto and everything is set up fine.
After the playback of a MP3 has started, I can see a black screen with the lyrics. But only the first lines. They don't change to the next lines in the song, as it plays.
But if I press Pause, the song pauses and the lyrics are "refreshed" , so the correct lyrics are visible for the part of the song, where I paused.

As english is not my native language, I still hope you can understand, what the issue is and maybe provide any hints or even a solution?
My girl really wants to sing soon ;-)

overlook

Could you verify if this is an ios specific problem or a generic issue? Just install XBMC on a PC and see if it works there or fails in the same way.

I just checked - it's not an iOS specific problem. It's not working on a Ubuntu installation either.
If i switch on the Debugging, it works, because the screen is updated with the FPS and processor usage.

I just found out, it works, if I set <defaultbackground type="vis"/> in the <karaoke>-section in the advancedsettings.xml (enables visualization during lyrics playback)
... looks like a bug, as the screen is not refreshing, if lyrics only are displayed.

try deactivating dirty rendering via advancedsettings.xml and see if this fixes it too.

yes,
if i set

it works - does it have any side-effects like performance problems on other parts of xbmc, like playback of video?

XBMC wise, it shouldn't actually effect performance.

Okay, but as I want to have visualisation anyways during karaoke, I just switch on the vis-flag.
Should I open a bug report for this?

yes please