Sound out of sync issue on some streams

Hello,

some TV-live streams as well as some media library content (i.e. everything at ARD & ZDF Mediathek as well as Kika, but netflix and ARTE work fine!) show large out-of-sync issues of several tens of seconds on Libreelec with Kodi Matrix as well as on the newest nightly (LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-11.0-nightly-20211210).

After some searching, I found this post and I can confirm that I experience the very same behaviour on the current nightly:

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ZDF Mediathek - Sound out of sync

Hello,

I installed the ZDF Mediathek Add-on (V5.0.2) and the ARD Mediathek Add-on (V6.0.0) on a fresh install of LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-9.95.5. Nothing else is installed, and the only settings I changed were for screen resolution (4K, 30Hz) and adjustment of the screen size. The sound I get when playing any content from the ZDF Mediathek is out of sync, whereas ARD Mediathek works (as far as I observed).

I run the ZDF mediathek Add-on (V5.0.2) on a desktop (Debian Buster) with Kodi 19.1 (from Buster…

Bernbacher

July 9, 2021 at 11:20 PM

I switched off DRM Prime now and it seems to be solved. It would be nice if either DRM Prime is off at default since it was, at least for me, a long way to figure out the reason for this, or if the underlying issue in DRM Prime could be adressed.

Thank you, Daniel

I can verify that with the current nightlies (i.e. 20221028), DRM & direct to plane works again without causing this issue.