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I have a long standing .27.3 Mythtv backend that is using a HDHomeRun to create MPG2 recordings. I now have a Pi 2 with Kodi and it will not decode in hardware at all.
- Pi 2 with 1G
- Raspbian latest build with Kodi 14.2 stable Git 7cc53a9 (Mar 29, 2015)
- Mpeg2 license is purchased and shows enabled on the command line
- Software playback works but interlaced and choppy
- Enabling hardware playback shows a black screen and pressing O shows the stats. omx-mpeg2 is enabled.
Numerous segfaults occur.
Why does Pi 2 not decode MPEG2 in 14.2 Kodi?
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I didn't try memory, but here is what fixed it.
I grabbed OpenELEC 5.0.8 from their website which is a bit newer than the NOOBS image. The current NOOBS image wouldn't work earlier is why I was looking at Raspbian. Once extracted to the SD card, I then updated the config.txt with the decoder keys and installed it. Everything worked seamless from there. Just needed a newer version it seems.
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How does the hardware MPEG2 decoding compare to software decoding? I have not purchased a license key, so I must be using software decoding on a MediaPortal backend. SD TV is MPEG2.
Is it worth the expense of buying the decoder? Sure it isn't much, but even so.... !
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Deinterlace only works with hardware decode, so for interleaced content (most live TV) it will look better if you buy the codec licence.
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Exactly right. It is well worth it as everything smooths out and full de-interlace. I was glad to see the price being very reasonable too and it took less than 1 hour to get the key. As mentioned above I couldn't make it work with Raspian + Kodi, but it could have been something wrong with my install. I still have the SD card from the post above so I am going to try the memory increase as suggested and report back.
