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Skip background grabber/blur while playing to avoid microstutters #73

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10 changes: 8 additions & 2 deletions resources/lib/service_monitor.py
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Expand Up @@ -94,9 +94,15 @@ def start(self):

while not self.abortRequested() and not self.restart:

''' Only run timed tasks if screensaver is inactive to avoid keeping NAS/servers awake
''' Only run timed tasks if screensaver is inactive to avoid keeping NAS/servers awake.
Also skip them while something is playing: grabfanart() issues several synchronous
JSON-RPC library queries (and ImageBlur() runs a PIL blur) on this service thread,
which can briefly starve the video render thread and cause microstutters on weaker
devices. The backgrounds these feed are not visible during fullscreen playback
anyway. Gated on isPlaying() rather than isPlayingVideo() so a brief pause or seek
cannot let the grabber slip through and hitch playback on resume.
'''
if not self.screensaver:
if not self.screensaver and not xbmc.Player().isPlaying():

''' Grab fanarts
'''
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