3 frame skips, exactly every minute

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.

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

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

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touché

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.

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>