You're right. Apparently people are mixing up two totally different things when it comes to the subs/stutter topic as can be seen here (where you will find posts of the same user "monsoons"):
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/21554
You can have stutter at that very moment when the subs are actually appearing. But this is not our issue.
And you can have randomly occurring stutter caused (potentially) by subs even when when they are actually not being displayed. This is what we're talking about.
I was a little befuddled when I read through that thread.
Let's hope that Homatics/Kodi devs don't confuse these two things either and aren't looking for stutter just then when subs are being displayed.And sometimes it is really amazing what kind of medicine people are recommending: Disable hardware acceleration. WTF?!
The working workaround (restore framerate to smooth playing by disabling/enabling subs without stopping the playback) looks like doing a "renice" on running processes manually. So Homatics/Kodi devs might have a look at process priorities.
I shared several samples now with Ella to share with other Homatics employees, but they don't see anything wrong with it. Nothing wrong, so nothing to fix also.
So I made an appointment with my doctor to check my eyes, and brain