I am not sure if this started after March or April update, but ‘recently’ I get consistent frame skipping.
I run OpenVPN and Transmission, and thought CPU usage from that might be causing it, so turned off those services to check, but no difference.
It also seems like refresh rate is not switching anymore? I have set 3 second delay for refresh rate switch since both my projector and TV is slow to switch when jumping from 60p to 24p. This switch doesn’t seem to happen anymore, and I tried resetting the Kodi settings related to this, but no difference.
Skipping feels almost like 1-2 frames every 1-2 seconds. Sound is perfect with passthrough, and everything keeps in sync. Used to be perfect playback, and this started in the last couple of weeks.
Finally, thought I would provide logs from the get go, but this is what I get
osmc@osmc:~$ grab-logs -A
Logs successfully uploaded.
Logs available at https://paste.osmc.tv/
No idea where to start, and would prefer not to reset the whole thing so I would have to set up the vpn and everything again…
I can’t say for sure that it’s causing your frame-skipping problem but you have installed network-manager (and network-manager-openvpn) that are going to cause network-related conflicts with connman,
ii network-manager 1.6.2-3 armhf network management framework (daemon and userspace tools)
ii network-manager-openvpn 1.2.8-2 armhf network management framework (OpenVPN plugin core)
I would suggest that you remove them both. If the problem persists, at least we have eliminated one possible cause.
So I purged network-manager, and I’ll be damned, but things seem to be working? I have had it installed for a long time, and this problem was fairly recent, and since things fill up the buffer fast enough, I never would have suspected it…
As for my audio setup, it is a 3.1, but pretty much everything is passthrough to my receiver without issue, and it deals with the speaker setup. The only reason I had 3.1 set in Kodi is if it needed to do any mixing for when things aren’t bitstreamed (or so I thought). Anyway, my receiver can deal with it, so set it to 7.1 for good measure. Also tried both settings to see if it was network-manager or this setting causing the interference, and the culprit seems to have been network-manager.
Finally, I played a couple of clips to test, and I ran into a thing that happens every once in a while, which is that it doesn’t start playback with passthrough, and things get jerky and have the wrong sound. Stop playback, start again, and usually things are back to normal. The last two playbacks in this log is ‘no passthrough and jerky playback’ >> stop and start playback >> ‘things are passthrough and buttery smooth’. https://paste.osmc.tv/nanahusilo
This one doesn’t really bother me that much though, since once it starts playing correctly, you can watch the whole movie without issue.
Anyway, long winded reply, but THANKS! I have no idea how/why network-manager would ever cause the frame skipping, so big shout out to dill the trouble shooting demi-dog-god.
I went through the logs to try and find something, and it seems to be defaulting to 60hz for some reason:
09:56:15.617 T:4077924944 NOTICE: InitWindowSystem: Using EGL Implementation: amlogic
09:56:15.678 T:4077924944 ERROR: GetString: error reading /home/osmc/.kodi/userdata/disp_cap
09:56:15.678 T:4077924944 WARNING: UpdateResolutions: ProbeResolutions failed. Trying safe default.
09:56:15.678 T:4077924944 NOTICE: Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080 @ 60.000000 Hz
09:56:15.678 T:4077924944 NOTICE: Found (1920x1080@60.000000) at 16, setting to RES_DESKTOP at 16
Even though it finds the modes in a different piece of the log:
10:32:18.682 T:4074439248 ERROR: GetString: error reading /home/osmc/.kodi/userdata/disp_cap
10:32:18.682 T:4074439248 NOTICE: Found resolution 1280 x 720 for display 0 with 1280 x 720 @ 60.000000 Hz
10:32:18.683 T:4074439248 NOTICE: Found resolution 1280 x 720 for display 0 with 1280 x 720 @ 59.940060 Hz
10:32:18.683 T:4074439248 NOTICE: Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080i @ 60.000000 Hz
10:32:18.683 T:4074439248 NOTICE: Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080i @ 59.940060 Hz
10:32:18.683 T:4074439248 NOTICE: Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080 @ 60.000000 Hz
10:32:18.683 T:4074439248 NOTICE: Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080 @ 59.940060 Hz
10:32:18.683 T:4074439248 NOTICE: Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080 @ 30.000000 Hz
10:32:18.683 T:4074439248 NOTICE: Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080 @ 29.970030 Hz
10:32:18.683 T:4074439248 NOTICE: Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080 @ 24.000000 Hz
10:32:18.683 T:4074439248 NOTICE: Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080 @ 23.976025 Hz
10:32:18.683 T:4074439248 NOTICE: Found (1920x1080@60.000000) at 20, setting to RES_DESKTOP at 16
