Audio wow and flutter at beginning of videos [Solved]

[DBMandrake]

@lorisarvendu

When I start playing a video from my smb share, for the first couple of seconds the audio suffers from what I can only describe as wow and flutter. Only noticeable if there’s music playing, it sounds like somebody has their finger on a record turntable, causing the sound to slow down and speed up slightly. It only lasts a couple of seconds, but if you pause or stop and then resume the video, it happens each time. I wondered if it might be a problem with the Pi or OSMC, so I fired up a quick version of OpenELEC. No issue there at all.

This is a known issue with dvdplayer in Kodi - I get the exact same thing on some video files on my Mac Mini, so it’s not OSMC specific.

However there are some settings you could try changing that may help - one is to re-enable omxplayer, which has been off by default in the last few versions of OSMC on the Pi 2. This is in settings->Videos->Acceleration, make sure omxplayer is enabled. (omxplayer does not suffer from this wow and flutter issue)

Other options you could try are in Settings->Videos->Playback, try changing sync playback to display to off, or try changing A/V sync method to Adjust PLL. (You might need to try these options in conjunction with omxplayer)

Let us know if any of those help.