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Wrooty · 2011-12-05, 14:00

Hi there!

My xbmc is installed on an acer revo 3610 with windows 7 running. The revo goes in and out of standby rather than shutting down.

Now over time for some reason XBMC will become very slow. Playback will be very choppy and menu selection is very delayed. If I simply close and reopen XBMC everything goes back to normal. I do not have to reboot the computer.

I have tried nightly builds of XBMC but that makes no difference. Does anyone have any ideas?

Many thanks.

Avigrace · 2011-12-05, 14:24

I experience this all the time, since Dharma I think.

My workaround is to install powertriggers 2 where you can run a batch file before and after standby. I run one before to kill xbmc and another after to start it. Not ideal but does the trick for me.

glennt · 2011-12-05, 15:53

Mine does the same thing, but I haven't taken the time to dig into why. Playback is generally OK, but the menus get sluggish and I eventually can't even start a movie (i.e. you select a movie and it never comes up.) It seems worse if Hulu or Windows Media Center (for Netflix) are running when it goes to sleep.

I'm doing something similar to what Avigrace has done. I've been playing with the Windows Task Scheduler to trigger AutoHotKey scripts that kill XBMC, plus Hulu or the WMC Netflix if they're running, when the PC goes into standby. When it comes out of standby, XMBC is started.

Wii60 · 2011-12-05, 16:17

Try leaving your hard drives on in power management and see what happens.

mikeybhoy · 2011-12-06, 20:02

My Revo never goes in to standby but I also find that xbmc becomes jerky in playback or unresponsive over time. Have just assumed there is a memory leak somewhere in my setup.

cdanderson04 · 2011-12-06, 20:15

@mikeybhoy

I was just about to make a post concerning this. I have the same problem. Like if things are flowing on the screen there is a jerky stop-go kind of thing going on. Cam on here to find a solution to it.

mwkurt · 2011-12-06, 20:37

This problem has been in XBMC it seems, forever. There are many threads in the forums concerning this. Please see:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ight=sleep

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=82879

http://forum.xbmc.org/archive/index.php/t-69245.html

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ight=sleep

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ight=sleep

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ight=sleep

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ight=sleep

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ight=sleep

Many, many threads with the same issue. So far no one can figure out what the problem is. The best fix so far is to do a restart of XBMC. I do wish one of the Dev's could figure this issue out.

Mark

Wrooty · 2011-12-10, 21:15

Hi!

Thank you all for your replies. I have used both powertrigger and tashschd.msc. After getting them to work I often found XBMC would crash on start up.

I really don't know what else to do. GRR!