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I see 2 problems on Kodi 17 with live tv (other than this it works well).

1. With Mediacodec decoding of SD mpeg2 there is a slight 'bouncing' to the picture

2. With Mediacodec (surface) decoding of HD h.264 there are a lot of dropped frames and a news ticker goes into slow mo (it's really weird, knock of deinterlacing and the main picture stays the same, but the ticker goes super fast to catch-up).

These problems all occur on two different shields, both running 3.2 f/w.

Are they known bugs and if not what logs / tests would help to diagnose the issue?


Edit - these problems occur if the shield is in 4k or 1080 mode.

Debug Log as always, please

(2016-07-16, 14:08)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ]Debug Log as always, please

First log showing dropped frames on HD h.264 channel with mediacodec (surface) decoding:

http://pastebin.com/pBecnfa5

please start by installing latest available and try again
http://mirrors.kodi.tv/nightlies/android/arm/

And second log showing shaky / bouncy mpeg2 playback with only mediacodec decoding enabled:

http://pastebin.com/5e8nKVEH

FWIW I know shield 3.2 has issues, but the refresh rate is manually set to 50Hz and both methods work correctly in SPMC / Kodi 16

Anything else I can provide please let me know

(2016-07-16, 15:47)Martijn Wrote: [ -> ]please start by installing latest available and try again
http://mirrors.kodi.tv/nightlies/android/arm/

Just updated and exactly same issues - shaky playback on SD MPEG2 with Mediacodec only and dropped frames on HD h.264 when (surface) is enabled.

Debug Log with newest build, please - the other one has a sever issue with non blocking renderer.

Edit: Btw. please use a recording for testing - no intention to debug possible additional tvh issues with the changed infrastructure.

Mediacodec with SD here:

http://pastebin.com/JutmGJk4

And surface with HD here:

http://pastebin.com/BuZcgmeB

(2016-07-16, 17:28)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ]Debug Log with newest build, please - the other one has a sever issue with non blocking renderer.

Edit: Btw. please use a recording for testing - no intention to debug possible additional tvh issues with the changed infrastructure.

Oh just seen your edit.

Will do some more logs in a bit

OK recorded HD with surface log:

http://pastebin.com/k6aMny5x

Recorded mpeg2 SD with mediacodec:

http://pastebin.com/Y92JLG4H

I'm all logged out

I see everything in those logs ... but not playing a proper file. Plex is spamming like hell and tvh tells us its feeling about pvr recordings.

Here, three samples:

1080i50: http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~fritsch/..._h264-2.ts
576i50: http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~fritsch/...samples.ts
720p50: http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~fritsch/720p50_h264.mp4

(2016-07-16, 18:51)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ]I see everything in those logs ... but not playing a proper file. Plex is spamming like hell and tvh tells us its feeling about pvr recordings.

Here, three samples:

1080i50: http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~fritsch/..._h264-2.ts
576i50: http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~fritsch/...samples.ts
720p50: http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~fritsch/720p50_h264.mp4

OK, give me some time and I will set up a clean kodi on my other shield and check these files.

(2016-07-16, 18:51)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ]I see everything in those logs ... but not playing a proper file. Plex is spamming like hell and tvh tells us its feeling about pvr recordings.

Here, three samples:

1080i50: http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~fritsch/..._h264-2.ts
576i50: http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~fritsch/...samples.ts
720p50: http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~fritsch/720p50_h264.mp4

Your SD mpeg2 clip with mediacodec only:
http://pastebin.com/AckEzeZB

Your HD 1080i h.264 clip with (surface):
http://pastebin.com/kmtVvLec

Note this shield is on a TV which can only do 720p (at 50Hz) in this case, I still see the same problem though.

1.) The bouncing is the missing, suboptimal / low quality deinterlacing, which is done by bobbing in the render. You use: Deinterlace (Auto) and Deinterlace-Method: BOB right? Does "Bob-invert" make a difference?

2.) Besides some sluggish startup I see that nearly every second frame is late and therefore dropped by renderrmanage :-( - sad. Someone needs to really properly look into mediacodec surface as it needs fine tuning after rework of render manager. Can't help.

Out of interest: http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~fritsch/...0_h264.mkv <- this one needs much more oopmh to play, does it also drop like hell?