[IOWNSU]

Hi Folks,

Rather annoying issue, My HTPC is a Gigabyte E350N with AMD GPU (Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Wrestler [Radeon HD 6310]) running Fedora 19

When playing video, if i hit tab to keep playing video but return to the menu, after about 10 seconds, the audio starts to stutter, When I return to the video by pressing TAB, the audio comes right and the video "catches up" to the current playing position

I've tried:

• Increasing the video ram from 512MB to 1 and 2GB
  
• Increasing the Audio Buffers in Pulseaudio
  
• Increasing the Priorities (Nice) for both XBMC and pulse
  
• Open source GPU Drivers
  
• Proprietry GPU drivers
  
• Different Hard Drives
  
• Disabling Dirty Regions
  
• Software Rendering
  
• Audio forced to 2 channel Analog
  
• tsched=0 in pulseaudio (Makes it MUCH worse)
  
• Different Skin
  
• Animations disabled
  
• RSS Ticker disabled
  
• Different OS (Ubuntu)
  
• Different OS (Debian)
  
• Sound over HDMI
  
• Sound over Analog
  

Here is the debug log
http://pastebin.com/DytjVQ9F

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8EL5f77Rhs

[fritsch]

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116996

Get rid of pulseaudio completely. It is in no good stage within xbmc.

[ursli]

Sounds like the same problem I had (with alsa, so not pulse related on my end) http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=164475

was fixed in the xvba branch by fernetmenta can't find the commit anymore sadly but it's probably worth updating to check if it fixes your problem too.

[fritsch]

yeah - but the original poster is not running the xvba version at all - therefore I wonder why it is not even worse :-) with HD stuff. To remove PA is a first test, cause i have seen it not working or making problems in a really high percentage of cases.

The fix fernetmenta did was for the buffered renderer back then, which is for sure not in frodo 12.2 the OP is running.