High CPU usage

Hi there,

I am experiencing very high CPU usage when playing videos (>100%) which results in the fan becoming very loud. I tried making sense of the log, but I have no clue what to look for.

The log can be found here: http://ix.io/2nqY

it starts at 21:00 and till 21:15 I have verbose logging turned on all components. From 21:15 onwards I have only normal debbugging turned on. I am running on a Core i3 CPU with integrated intel video card. The whole time the CPU was on steroids... This used to never be a problem.

Hopefully someone can makes sense out of this. Happy to answer any questions off course...

Sorry my statement is incorrect. The log starts at 21:00 till 21:30 but halfway I turned off the verbose logging just because if the normal debug log would be enough to identify an issue it would perhaps be easier. Nothing special happened at 21:15.

I played a video from 21:00 - 21:30 and all the time the CPU has been plus 100%

Regards,

y3ll3r

Hiya,

So I did what you asked and after playback (using default skin) the kodi.bin process is the only high consumer of the CPU for about 20%. After 20 minutes the "kodi.bin" process increases to 110-120% CPU and stays on this level.

Regards,

y3LL3r

Well it happens with all files I play but here is the one from yesterday:

General

Unique ID :

47132858075277093611863998660612777079 (0x2375755164029F8EF0E991085508E477)

Complete name :

/Volumes/media/tv_series/Why Women Kill/Season 01/Why Women Kill - S01E04 - You Had Me at Homicide HDTV-1080p.mkv

Format :

Matroska

Format version :

Version 4

File size :

2.62 GiB

Duration :

41 min 3 s

Overall bit rate :

9 152 kb/s

Encoded date :

UTC 2020-04-09 20:02:32

Writing application :

mkvmerge v45.0.0 ('Heaven in Pennies') 64-bit

Writing library :

libebml v1.3.10 + libmatroska v1.5.2

Video

ID :

1

Format :

AVC

Format/Info :

Advanced Video Codec

Format profile :

High@L4

Format settings :

CABAC / 4 Ref Frames

Format settings, CABAC :

Yes

Format settings, Reference frames :

4 frames

Codec ID :

V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC

Duration :

41 min 3 s

Bit rate :

9 025 kb/s

Width :

1 920 pixels

Height :

1 080 pixels

Display aspect ratio :

16:9

Frame rate mode :

Constant

Frame rate :

25.000 FPS

Standard :

Component

Color space :

YUV

Chroma subsampling :

4:2:0

Bit depth :

8 bits

Scan type :

MBAFF

Scan type, store method :

Interleaved fields

Scan order :

Top Field First

Bits/(Pixel*Frame) :

0.174

Stream size :

2.59 GiB (99%)

Default :

No

Forced :

No

Color range :

Limited

Color primaries :

BT.709

Transfer characteristics :

BT.709

Matrix coefficients :

BT.709

Audio #1

ID :

2

Format :

AAC LC SBR

Format/Info :

Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity with Spectral Band Replication

Commercial name :

HE-AAC

Format settings :

Explicit

Codec ID :

A_AAC-2

Duration :

41 min 3 s

Bit rate :

61.9 kb/s

Channel(s) :

2 channels

Channel layout :

L R

Sampling rate :

48.0 kHz

Frame rate :

23.438 FPS (2048 SPF)

Compression mode :

Lossy

Stream size :

18.2 MiB (1%)

Title :

French

Language :

French

Default :

Yes

Forced :

No

Audio #2

ID :

3

Format :

AAC LC SBR

Format/Info :

Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity with Spectral Band Replication

Commercial name :

HE-AAC

Format settings :

Explicit

Codec ID :

A_AAC-2

Duration :

41 min 3 s

Bit rate :

61.9 kb/s

Channel(s) :

2 channels

Channel layout :

L R

Sampling rate :

48.0 kHz

Frame rate :

23.438 FPS (2048 SPF)

Compression mode :

Lossy

Stream size :

18.2 MiB (1%)

Title :

English

Language :

English

Default :

No

Forced :

No

Text #1

ID :

4

Format :

UTF-8

Codec ID :

S_TEXT/UTF8

Codec ID/Info :

UTF-8 Plain Text

Duration :

40 min 32 s

Bit rate :

62 b/s

Count of elements :

708

Stream size :

18.5 KiB (0%)

Title :

French

Language :

French

Default :

No

Forced :

No

Text #2

ID :

5

Format :

UTF-8

Codec ID :

S_TEXT/UTF8

Codec ID/Info :

UTF-8 Plain Text

Duration :

40 min 45 s

Bit rate :

72 b/s

Count of elements :

842

Stream size :

21.6 KiB (0%)

Title :

French (SDH)

Language :

French

Default :

No

Forced :

No

I stream all my files from my nas btw.