3 frame skips, exactly every minute

[bmillham]

@Kontrarian

What was really amazing to me is that I couln’t believe that 13 files totaling 113GB had not been committed.
That blew me away.
So I did some research and found similar issues happened to other users with removable media.
I was literally migrating my stuff from NTFS to ext4 with the intent to leave NTFS behind for my Vero drives but when that happened I migrated everything back.

How were you copying the files? Command line or from within Kodi?

BTW, I think that this talk about NTFS vs EXT4 should be moved to the new topic as it’s not helpful to the OPs question.

[sam_nazarko]

It should do. I’m referring to HEVC, not H264 versions.

[bmillham]

@Kontrarian

There isn’t a 400Mbps h264 version.

This has nothing to do with the OPs problem. Please stop posting in this topic.

[Kontrarian]

@bmillham

Are the NTFS files mounted on a Linux system, or shared from a Windows system?

touché

[Banzi]

So, I’ve managed to move files over, format the USB as EXT4 (using an Ubuntu VM in Parallels).
Result: Exactly the same… so the previous NTFS filesystem is indeed a non-issue. I’ve read about exFAT as well, could I have been using that as a filesystem? Googling made me believe exFAT was within FUSE as well?

I’ve set the GUI to 1080p.
Result: Exactly the same… so reducing the GUI size didn’t solve the issue

Specs on the USB drive:
Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 Flash Drive 256GB
Read 80MB/s, Write 55MB/s (according to a dutch comparison website, although Sandisk website mentions up to 130MB/s Sequential Read Performance)
This has been the only USB-stick I was able to run Windows-To-Go on.

@darwindesign:
Enabling passthrough for AC3 and DTS.
Result: Exactly the same… Still skips 3 (sometimes 4) every minute.

[darwindesign]

Can you make a ~/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml file with the following content, reboot, and then test again.

<advancedsettings>
	<cache>
		<buffermode>4</buffermode>
	</cache>
</advancedsettings>