[fraz0815]

Just my experience....

Sadly XBMC 12.1 runs worse than 12.0 in alpha5 for me.
I use xbmc mostly to stream series/movies off the internet via addons like xstream or icefilms.
So content is delivered by various filehosters, which work fine most the time with 12.0, skipping works etc.
In 12.1 I have many sound issues (crackling, stopping, strange noise, not working at all), these issues appear especially when skipping, but also during normal playback.
Only stopping the file and starting again from beginning helps, which doesn't make sense when the error occurs in the middle of something and skipping forward crashes sound again^^

This seems to be xbmc related, same behavior on latest openelec and raspbmc.
I guess the new playback/caching by Dom in 12.1 doesn't like http streaming or whatever.
Reverted back to 12.0 and all is working again.
Maybe helpful for other struggling or deciding whether to update 12.1 or not.