2020-05-21, 13:05
Hi everyone, I have 2 HTPC at home running LibreElec, and I am experiencing video stuttering with one of them since a couple of days.
As i did a number of changes in the recent days (video files moved to NAS instead of local drives in HTPC, experiments with Emby add-ons, LibreElec upgrade), I have assumed that the issues were related to one of these changes, but now I am ruling out these possibilities:
Any movie I play will stutter at some point (usually after a few seconds, and only always at the same moment of each movie)
Stutter is maybe not the right term (non native english speaker...), so if i should describe what happens:
I have been thinking of hardware / bios issues, i have looked there and found nothing fishy, plus everything had been working fine for a couple of years, so I am ruling this out also.
Perhaps it would help if I would post a log, just need to check out to do this again and will add to this thread.
Next on my list is to install Windows 10 and/or OpenElec and/or an instance on Linux, with Kodi, and see if I get the same problem.
But until I can do that, I am posting here in case some could suggest an obvious fix and setting I have missed.
thanks!
As i did a number of changes in the recent days (video files moved to NAS instead of local drives in HTPC, experiments with Emby add-ons, LibreElec upgrade), I have assumed that the issues were related to one of these changes, but now I am ruling out these possibilities:
- i did a serie of tests using video files hosted on local drivers: problem is still here, which takes the NAS out of the equation
- I did a serie of tests with different LibreElec versions (9.0 and 9.2), fresh installs: problem with both, which rules out any problems from latest 9.2 upgrade
- I did a serie of tests with hardware acceleration enabled / disabled: problem still here
Any movie I play will stutter at some point (usually after a few seconds, and only always at the same moment of each movie)
Stutter is maybe not the right term (non native english speaker...), so if i should describe what happens:
- image freeze
- but if I pause and play again a couple of times, i can see that according to the timeline the file is still read
- once the video file is frozen on an image, i need to get back to the home screen via ctrl+X (i am not kicked out of the video playback)
- i have noticed also that when i play a file, in the past files hosted on local drives started instantly. Now there is a bit of loading (2-3 seconds).
I have been thinking of hardware / bios issues, i have looked there and found nothing fishy, plus everything had been working fine for a couple of years, so I am ruling this out also.
Perhaps it would help if I would post a log, just need to check out to do this again and will add to this thread.
Next on my list is to install Windows 10 and/or OpenElec and/or an instance on Linux, with Kodi, and see if I get the same problem.
But until I can do that, I am posting here in case some could suggest an obvious fix and setting I have missed.
thanks!