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Random hangs/lag on preset change

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Description

  • Hardware: Fire Stick 4K
  • Kodi version: 19.2 Matrix (armeabi-v7)
  • projectM addon version: 19.0.0-Matrix

When using a preset directory containing loads of .milk presets (in my case 2000+), the random change function sometimes takes up to 3 seconds to switch to a different preset, making the audio stream (probably Kodi itself) hang/stop sound. This is weird, since the hardware should handle that easily, I assume. The presets directory is located directly on the internal memory of the Fire Stick 4K.

I already opened an issue over at projectM's main repo here: https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm/issues/545

It would be nice if someone could investigate this. Thank you.

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Research direction

The report provides no repository files or tests to start from. Reproduce random preset changes on a Fire Stick 4K with more than 2,000 .milk presets, then compare the behavior with the linked projectM issue; done means preset changes no longer cause multi-second lag or audio interruption.

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Tech stack
cpp
Domain
performance
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
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Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
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