[drhill]

I recently setup a chromebox with Kodi and all my files except one seem to playback perfectly. It's a 1080i H264 mkv directly copied from my blu ray and it works fine on my old Sony GTV NSZ-GT1 via plex (direct) and dlna.

OpenELEC (official) - Version: 5.0.2 (kernel: Linux 3.17.8)
Logs @ http://sprunge.us/iYDg

It's no problem to provide a clip, just let me know where if its needed. Thanks.

Here is the mediainfo

Code:

General
Unique ID                                : 139149397800205001408996789987894598683 (0x68AF32FE8DD67EA5B7DB52B54B1F9C1B)
Complete name                            : /media/hill/Documentaries/OVER Hawaii/OVER Hawaii.mkv
Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 2
File size                                : 10.3 GiB
Duration                                 : 1h 1mn
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 23.7 Mbps
Encoded date                             : UTC 2012-10-16 02:16:14
Writing application                      : mkvmerge v5.8.0 ('No Sleep / Pillow') built on Sep  2 2012 14:35:40
Writing library                          : libebml v1.2.2 + libmatroska v1.3.0

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 3 frames
Muxing mode                              : Header stripping
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                                 : 1h 1mn
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 21.7 Mbps
Maximum bit rate                         : 35.0 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 29.940 fps
Original frame rate                      : 29.970 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.350
Stream size                              : 9.41 GiB (92%)
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : No
Forced                                   : No
Color primaries                          : BT.709
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.709
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : DTS
Format/Info                              : Digital Theater Systems
Mode                                     : 16
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Muxing mode                              : Header stripping
Codec ID                                 : A_DTS
Duration                                 : 1h 1mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 509 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 24 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 669 MiB (6%)
Title                                    : 2/0
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

Menu
00:00:00.000                             : en:Chapter 00
00:00:46.146                             : en:Chapter 01
00:09:09.315                             : en:Chapter 02
00:22:23.909                             : en:Chapter 03
00:25:17.516                             : en:Chapter 04
00:33:41.786                             : en:Chapter 05
00:42:28.879                             : en:Chapter 06
00:53:40.483                             : en:Chapter 07
00:55:39.469                             : en:Chapter 08

[fritsch]

Please post a sample (100 MB is enough). Thanks in advance.

This one here works: http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~fritsch/1080i50_h264.ts ?

[Matt Devo]

I'm far from an authoritative source on this, but looking at the log there's a lot of video decoding issues. You might try either re-encoding or deinterlacing and re-encoding since it appears to be an issue with the clip

edit: ninja'd by fritsch

[fritsch]

Jep, there is everything broken, that can be broken - therefore I wanted to have a sample :-)

[drhill]

fritsch,

I sent you a pm with a google drive link.

The clip is jerky from the start.

Deinterlace video, Deinterlace method, and Video scalling method are all auto. Pass through audio is turned on for all codecs.

The blu ray plays fine on any player. The mkv struggles on anything I've tried it on but that one GoogeTV device (also an Intel... that device was the bees knees other then Google half assing the 24p/pass through audio support in their media player widget).

[fritsch]

I could get it going correctly with mpv, kodi / vlc make issues, no matter if vaapi is used or if sw decoding is running.

[fritsch]

When copying it from the mkv container to a mp4 one, ffmpeg detects vfr ... works the same bad

[Matt Devo]

I've also had random issues with rips made with MakeMKV, where the source disc plays fine, but the rip (not re-encoded) has issues, both in Kodi and VLC. Haven't had time to investigate it though

[drhill]

So this isn't a MakeMKV issue but something with the video track?

[drhill]

Wanted to update this. I re-ripped it with MakeMKV again (newer version). Works perfectly. Sorry for wasting your time on this when all you did was get me to, eventually, just do the simplest of things to fix it.

Thanks.