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any updates when this will be added to Kodi?

(2021-08-17, 04:55)nekrosoft13 Wrote: [ -> ]any updates when this will be added to Kodi?

I believe not officially until Kodi 20, any Kodi 19 releases will be community releases only.

Not very likely anything will happen soon as no one has taken owership of dealing with ffmpeg, as it's necessary for the ffmppeg patches to be accepted into the official ffmpeg code first, and no one yet has even started this process.

hi

i have a problem with DV mp4s playing perfectly fine in kodi official build BUT as soon as i stop playback and want to resume, only the sound resumes, while the screen goes black.

same happens when i skip/fast forward into the movie.

does anyone have an idea how to fix this? might installing this fork help?

thanks!

When running this on a Firestick, is there anyway to have FEL MKV rips that it cannot play drop back to HDR10?

Like if I play the MKV rip on the regular Matrix build it plays it back as HDR10. When I try to play it on this build it just shows a black screen (I know firestick does not support Profile 7 FEL).

Is there some way of telling it to not try to play it in DV when it’s an unsupported type so that I can watch the particular file in HDR10?

(2021-08-17, 16:38)Variant Wrote: [ -> ]When running this on a Firestick, is there anyway to have FEL MKV rips that it cannot play drop back to HDR10?

Like if I play the MKV rip on the regular Matrix build it plays it back as HDR10. When I try to play it on this build it just shows a black screen (I know firestick does not support Profile 7 FEL).

Is there some way of telling it to not try to play it in DV when it’s an unsupported type so that I can watch the particular file in HDR10?

Would have to add a Kodi setting to override the mimetype, and I don't know how exactly.

However there's no easy way to differentiate FEL from MEL without parsing the whole metadata, and I'm not sure how efficient that would be in realtime.
Unless we parse only once and assume the rest is the same..

So it's not possible currently.

(2021-08-17, 18:15)quietvoid Wrote: [ -> ]

(2021-08-17, 16:38)Variant Wrote: [ -> ]When running this on a Firestick, is there anyway to have FEL MKV rips that it cannot play drop back to HDR10?

Like if I play the MKV rip on the regular Matrix build it plays it back as HDR10. When I try to play it on this build it just shows a black screen (I know firestick does not support Profile 7 FEL).

Is there some way of telling it to not try to play it in DV when it’s an unsupported type so that I can watch the particular file in HDR10?

Would have to add a Kodi setting to override the mimetype, and I don't know how exactly.

However there's no easy way to differentiate FEL from MEL without parsing the whole metadata, and I'm not sure how efficient that would be in realtime.
Unless we parse only once and assume the rest is the same..

So it's not possible currently.

Thank you for the quick response. I can just run another instance of Kodi in case I want to watch those particular files. Thought it was an interesting idea but yeah, I can see how it wouldn’t be a simple fix.

am i right that MEL is detectable but FEL is not or does notbplay as dovi? or is it dependant kn the device?

Is there any way of installing this atmos patch on this build?

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=327153&page=7

(2021-10-18, 11:18)mattmarsden Wrote: [ -> ]Is there any way of installing this atmos patch on this build?

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=327153&page=7

Not sure if there's much interest in maintaining the builds here. Most people either use other players or Maven's builds nowadays.
Someone should probably ask Maven to include the patch.

Apparently the builds here (and maybe Maven's) have stuttering problems.
I personally build my own on top of master and have no problem, but I'm not using an NVIDIA Shield.

In other news, I sent patches to ffmpeg last month and had some reviews, so maybe parsing Dolby Vision in MKV will be upstream by the end of the year.
Hopefully. Currently waiting for other related patches to get in before resending.

(2021-10-18, 14:25)quietvoid Wrote: [ -> ]

(2021-10-18, 11:18)mattmarsden Wrote: [ -> ]Is there any way of installing this atmos patch on this build?

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=327153&page=7

Not sure if there's much interest in maintaining the builds here. Most people either use other players or Maven's builds nowadays.
Someone should probably ask Maven to include the patch.

Apparently the builds here (and maybe Maven's) have stuttering problems.
I personally build my own on top of master and have no problem, but I'm not using an NVIDIA Shield.

In other news, I sent patches to ffmpeg last month and had some reviews, so maybe parsing Dolby Vision in MKV will be upstream by the end of the year.
Hopefully. Currently waiting for other related patches to get in before resending.

OK, yes I could try Mavens build. Do you have a build that you've built that I could try?

(2021-10-18, 16:59)mattmarsden Wrote: [ -> ]OK, yes I could try Mavens build. Do you have a build that you've built that I could try?

My builds are for Android 32 bit, so unless your device is compatible it won't really be useful to you.
It's here: https://mega.nz/file/4BVTTAoI#KBpPwfQZ1J...cjlh62Bh-s

PS: this build does not include the Atmos patch.

From what I'm reading on kodinerds, the patch has been added to the Maven builds.

Great, I’m on 32bits Android. Do you know what build from Maven I should use?

(2021-10-18, 17:58)mattmarsden Wrote: [ -> ]Great, I’m on 32bits Android. Do you know what build from Maven I should use?

I don't know, not sure they have updated the armv7a builds with the patch.
Maybe someone else knows.

I already asked Maven to include the fix for the Atmos dropouts.

https://www.kodinerds.net/index.php/Thre...post659153

He confirmed that he already implemented it for 64Bit Matrix and Nexus Master. 32Bit will happen over night. Here is his answer:

https://www.kodinerds.net/index.php/Thre...post659162

So his regular builds have the following implemented:

• Dolby Vision Code from Plex, @quietvoid and @fandangos
• Microstutter Fix from @fritsch (and @supertoto1977 )
• Dolby Atmos Dropout Fix from @jogal

You find @Maven ’s builds in the opening post of the following thread:

https://www.kodinerds.net/index.php/Thre...r-Android/

Happy testing!

Thanks to all the devs and @Maven for all the work you investigated.

Regards Hoppel