[tsakiblue]

Has anyone ever encountered a weird behavior where PTVL causes stuttering/refresh rate strangeness horizontally across Kodi? Just curious if this is a known issue.

After one of the recent-ish updates to the add-on (I can't place exactly which one, but within the last week and 1/2 certainly), I started to notice weirdness with video playback. I would have a sort of almost 'rhythmic' stutter, where every two seconds or so, the video would jump back a fraction of a second. Audio would play uninterrupted, so it was almost like the video was re-syncing with the audio. This happened when playing high-quality video on a PTVL channel as well as just playing that media in Kodi directly, but seemed to be less common (maybe nonexistent?) on old SD content. In fact, if I had any of that problematic media playing but paused, I would ALSO see Kodi's OSD flickering/blinking at pretty much the same frequency of every couple seconds. But with media stopped, the regular menu was normal.

It was similar to something I used to encounter with YouTube playback in the browser, which I remembered fixing by disabling the browser's hardware acceleration flag, so I disabled hardware acceleration in Kodi to try to see if that would help but no dice. After trying a couple other things, I went ahead and uninstalled PTVL as it was one of the only recent changes I could think of, and the problem completely went away.

Is it possible PTVL has some background process which runs constantly and could be causing this?