Audio only stutter

[Nachteule]

(6th Apr, 2018 08:47 PM)Roy Terhaar Wrote:  

(2nd Jul, 2015 06:28 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  

Quote:FINALLY, what was the problem?

The problem is that kodi requires all, and I mean really ALL CPU power if DPRIORITY is set to Yes.
This behavior came with introducing the new priority handling with schedtool. It's working pretty well if nothing runs in the background.
You can make a test: open a ssh session and then walk through kodi's menus, scroll up and down and parallel try to do anything in your ssh session. You will see, this session does not respond until you stop working with kodi.
The same thing happens with audio drivers, they simply get no cpu

I will change

Quote:2 1. is not enough to turn of DP completely. Unfortunately, kodi.bin will be launched with priority 49 and it will newer changed later. So, to turn it completely off you have to modify the file /etc/init/xbmc.conf. Please change the line exec schedtool -R -p 49 -e sudo -u $USER -g $GROUP -s $DAEMON $DAEMON_ARGS $DAEMON_LIRC $DEBUG 2>&1 | grep -v ES30 || : to sudo -u $USER -g $GROUP -s $DAEMON $DAEMON_ARGS $DAEMON_LIRC $DEBUG 2>&1 || :

in the next days, so kodi will only started by schedtool if DPRIORITY=yes

I am facing a similar stutter audio only issue.
Changing the setting in xbmc.conf helped a bit is my current feeling.
However I could not find the line exec schedtool; maybe it has been replaced or fixed already, I am not sure as this thread is rather old.

Indeed, it has been changed to this line

Quote:Right now I am running kernel 4.14.32+
Kodi 17.6 Git-2017-11-18 433b93a
So far:
- I have checked kodi.log to see if something gets logged when stutter occurs, but no success.
- I have checked with top to see if there is something eating resources or spiking if stutter occurs, but also no results. Everything seems to be normal
Is it possible that the audio driver still does not get enough CPU time to perform it's task?

Can't believe that

Quote:Any way to check this or other things to check/try?
Any suggestions welcome... thx

Unfortunately I do not have other ideas at the moment