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lSi123
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Hi,
I'm coming from Kodi 17.6 with DSPlayer and madVR. Everything running smooth... but no future development (still Kodi 17.6)
Now testing Kodi 19.1, but the Videoplayback is not stutter-free with the internal Videoplayer.
Autoframerate-Switch is enabled (On Start/Stop) and working (correct Hz).
Rendermethod is "Pixelshader" and Kodi Fullscreen-Window enabled ... with "Auto" or "DXVA" or Kodi-Fullscreen-Window disabled -> only Blackscreen with 4KHDR Content (Audio normal)
HW-Decoder enabled. HDR/SDR Switch working.
With External-Player (MPC-HC with madVR) enabled with Kodi 19.1 -> everything running smooth again.
Kodi is running on Windows 10 20H2 with a NVidia Geforce 1030 (2GB VRAM).
Is there any Solution running Kodi 19.1 without External Player (Stutter-free) ?
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(2021-05-27, 14:42)lSi123 Wrote: Hi,
I'm coming from Kodi 17.6 with DSPlayer and madVR. Everything running smooth... but no future development (still Kodi 17.6)
Now testing Kodi 19.1, but the Videoplayback is not stutter-free with the internal Videoplayer.
Autoframerate-Switch is enabled (On Start/Stop) and working (correct Hz).
Rendermethod is "Pixelshader" and Kodi Fullscreen-Window enabled ... with "Auto" or "DXVA" or Kodi-Fullscreen-Window disabled -> only Blackscreen with 4KHDR Content (Audio normal)
HW-Decoder enabled. HDR/SDR Switch working.
With External-Player (MPC-HC with madVR) enabled with Kodi 19.1 -> everything running smooth again.
Kodi is running on Windows 10 20H2 with a NVidia Geforce 1030 (2GB VRAM).
Is there any Solution running Kodi 19.1 without External Player (Stutter-free) ?
Can you replicate the issues after turning on debug mode please?
Then kindly paste debug log at paste.kodi.tv
Thx
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I have a suspect in mind, but I would like you to try this first. - Fullscreen not windowed.. default skin, deselect 'extract thumbnails from videos', local video (not networked), in the player refresh & syc off, render method DXVA and allow DXVA2 accel and let's see how that works.
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lSi123
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2021-05-28, 10:24
(This post was last modified: 2021-05-28, 10:35 by lSi123.)
Testing and Reading alot ... Problems with old NVidia-Cards and Stuttering with new Kodi solved... but for me its not (nothing helps really). And its not only 4K-Content with Problems. Nothing is running smooth with the internal Videoplayer and Kodi 19.1. And it looks like this ... some seconds everything running smooth ... then some frames skipping ... some more seconds smooth and so on.
I think most people didnt see this ... but i am extreme sensetive for this.
Only Solution for now -> External Player -> smooth playback
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lSi123
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2021-05-29, 17:34
(This post was last modified: 2021-05-29, 17:36 by lSi123.)
Testing with "Player Debug Info" .... Video-Queue always 99% .... frame drop and skip counter not changing while playback ... but i can see the stuttering ... cpu-usage 10-20% while playback
.... back to External Player for now.
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2021-05-30, 10:42
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So your graphics card is not GDDR5 model or it is broken.
Note that to play 4K with DXVA2, 3 GB of graphics memory is required. This card is not optimal because it only has 2 GB.
One GB has to be used of shared RAM. The RAM memory must be fast (dual channel) to be able to do this without problems. Other people have reported that it works fine but it depends on many variables and this setup is still not optimal for 4K.
INFO <general>: DXVA::CDecoder::Open: Total video memory available is 6046 MB (dedicated = 1982 MB, shared = 4064 MB)