[dlxmax]

When using a very popular video plugin, and this happens on at least one other popular plugin that I know of, and browsing though file lists, I've noticed that the display list is now forced to refresh every ~13 seconds.

PR:7874 is the only possibility I can see from #0907, but it's not immediately obvious how a repo updating is affecting an add-ons file list (but it's not completely implausible).

Possibly unrelated but you might want to disable the following two repositories which are no longer available and seem to be spamming your log with failed curl and CRepositoryUpdateJob requests:

Code:

15:54:52 309.902100 T:1834443776   ERROR: Open - failed to open source <https://spoyser-repo.googlecode.com/git/RAM.FM/addons.xml.md5>
15:54:54 311.393097 T:1766810624   ERROR: Open - failed to open source <https://bitbucket.org/tcz009/theyidxxx/raw/master/addons.xml.md5>

It's possible these repeated (and eventually failing) requests are putting a lot of load on your Pi. Get rid of them, then see if the audio problem continues.

This solved my problem. I had three dead repositories that would cause a 5 second refresh pause while browsing add-on file directories (such as YouTube) every ~14 seconds. I even had some frame stutter happening during local video play.

According to popcornmix, PR:7874 might have brought this on. I reckon there's a lot of people out there with dead repos that will be affected by this.