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Hi
I recently upgraded from 14.2 to 15.1 on both Android and Windows clients and am noticing a very short (500ms) audio gap after skipping forward or back any amount.
Anyone else noticed this?
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Yep, same with resuming after a pause. The exact gap seems to change with different hardware (or maybe platforms), so sometimes it's not always noticeable, but sometimes is.
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2015-09-13, 21:26
(This post was last modified: 2015-09-13, 21:32 by candyman2000.)
Oh great, thanks FernetMenta.
I'm running Windows and Android clients, from the linked post it seems that this fix is currently only available for Linux, OS X and Rasberry Pi so I'm not able to test at the moment.
When will this change be implemented in Windows and Android? Will it make 15.2?
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2015-12-16, 18:33
(This post was last modified: 2015-12-16, 18:48 by errr.)
Hi, this is my first post here.
I'm using KODI to play ISO and MKV files ripped from my music DVDs. Some MKV files are MPEG-2 AC3 or AAC, other MKV files are H.264 AAC.
When I skip to previous or to next embedded chapter, or when I pause and then resume playing, or when I start a new file from the beginning (00h:00m:00.000s), there's an audio gap of around 0.5 to 1 second before the audio starts to play (the video starts to play with no audio).
This happens with AAC and AC3 audio codecs, I didn't test with other codecs so I can not say for sure.
No matter what hardware and KODI version I use: this happens using KODI v15.2 and v16.0 beta 4 for Mac OS X on my Mac Mini (Late 2012), and also using KODI v15.2 on my brand new Nvidia Shield Android TV (2015 model year). If I remember well, this was on KODI v15.0 too. I can not say about older KODI versions because I only started using KODI few months ago.
I must say that this also happens on my Sony BDP-S6200 when playing MKV files, so this is not only a KODI issue.
This is very annoying when playing music video files. Maybe when playing movie video files this is not very important because movies are usually played from beginning to end with no chapter skipping.
Did anyone send a bug report to KODi team?
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what about post #6 is unclear to you?
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2015-12-17, 01:44
(This post was last modified: 2015-12-17, 04:55 by Ned Scott.)
The audio gap is created by Kodi making sure the audio is in sync. Fernet's changes for v16 EDIT:the future improve this and shorten the time it takes for Kodi to figure out the sync. So even if you don't have a "sync" issue, that is why there is a gap.
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Sorry, his work has not been merged for v16.
The point still stands: he has explained why there is a gap, and he is working on fixing it. There's no "hurry" to start playback. That's not how it works. The current behavior is frustrating, I know, but it was done for good reason. It was done to fix other major issues, and make things maintainable for the future. Sometimes that causes bumps in other areas, but those bumps will eventually be fixed.