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Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - 03397 - 2016-12-23

I am using Kodi 16.1 on a windows 7 machine and recently I have installed an asus GTX 1080 video card which supports hardware decoding of hevc 4k.
I am tryting to play an mkv file 4k hevc but instead of using the video card to decode it is using software.

Can someone help me with this?
Is this supported in Kodi 16.1? Do I need to install any codecs?


RE: Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - Bennie1358 - 2016-12-23

try the Kodi 17 beta 7. i think it has to work.


RE: Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - levi.baker88 - 2016-12-23

You are unable to select DXVA rendering? Then there is an off/on option to allow hardware acceleration.


RE: Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - 03397 - 2016-12-23

(2016-12-23, 22:41)Bennie1358 Wrote: try the Kodi 17 beta 7. i think it has to work.


It did not work. I have upgraded to kodi 17. It still uses software decode.


RE: Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - 03397 - 2016-12-23

(2016-12-23, 23:06)levi.baker88 Wrote: You are unable to select DXVA rendering? Then there is an off/on option to allow hardware acceleration.


The hardware accelaration was set up to auto. I changed it but I am getting the same thing


RE: Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - 03397 - 2016-12-27

Anyone?This should be straight forward right guys?


RE: Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - 03397 - 2016-12-27

This is what I have in the log file

03:12:55.904 T:3580 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: smb://NASC7BD01/MultimediaReadyNAS1/Video/Movies/Elysium/Elysium.2013.2160p.4K.h265.mkv
03:12:55.904 T:3580 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):Tongueut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
03:12:55.904 T:3580 ERROR: DXVA::CProcessorHD::IsFormatSupported: Unsupported format 105 for 1.
03:12:55.905 T:3516 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
03:12:55.912 T:3516 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
03:12:56.162 T:3516 NOTICE: Opening stream: 0 source: 256
03:12:56.162 T:3516 NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 174
03:12:56.162 T:3516 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding)
03:12:56.162 T:3516 NOTICE: Creating video thread
03:12:56.162 T:3516 NOTICE: Opening stream: 1 source: 256
03:12:56.162 T:3516 NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86020
03:12:56.162 T:3516 NOTICE: Creating audio thread
03:12:56.163 T:6040 NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
03:12:56.163 T:3516 NOTICE: Opening stream: 9 source: 256
03:12:56.163 T:4708 NOTICE: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio:Tonguerocess()
03:12:56.166 T:6040 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::GetFormat - Creating DXVA(3840x1606)
03:12:56.166 T:6040 ERROR: DXVA::CDXVAContext::CreateSurfaces - failed creating decoder texture array
03:12:56.166 T:6040 NOTICE: DXVA::CDecoder::Close - closing decoder
03:12:56.166 T:6040 NOTICE: DXVA::Close - closing decoder context
03:12:56.177 T:4708 NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86020, channels: 8, sample rate: 48000, pass-through)
03:12:56.370 T:6040 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding)
03:12:57.419 T:6040 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::CDropControl: calculated diff time: 41727
03:13:07.042 T:4708 NOTICE: CVideoPlayerAudio:Tonguerocess - stream stalled
03:13:18.461 T:6040 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
03:13:18.461 T:6040 WARNING: CRenderManager::WaitForBuffer - timeout waiting for buffer


RE: Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - brazen1 - 2016-12-27

Did you try going into Nvidia Control Panel and selecting GTX 1080 PhysX setting instead of CPU or Auto?


RE: Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - Warner306 - 2016-12-27

(2016-12-27, 03:20)brazen1 Wrote: Did you try going into Nvidia Control Panel and selecting GTX 1080 PhysX setting instead of CPU or Auto?

What does PhysX have to do with anything?


RE: Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - afedchin - 2016-12-27

Windows 7 doesn't support 10-bit textures which is required for hevc main10 decoding. This is limitation of windows 7 version of DirectX 11.1


RE: Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - brazen1 - 2016-12-27

(2016-12-27, 03:47)Warner306 Wrote:
(2016-12-27, 03:20)brazen1 Wrote: Did you try going into Nvidia Control Panel and selecting GTX 1080 PhysX setting instead of CPU or Auto?

What does PhysX have to do with anything?

Doesn't it take decoding calculations off the CPU (software) and route them to the GPU (hardware)?


RE: Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - afedchin - 2016-12-27

PhysX does nothing for Kodi.


RE: Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - 03397 - 2017-01-04

(2016-12-27, 08:45)afedchin Wrote: Windows 7 doesn't support 10-bit textures which is required for hevc main10 decoding. This is limitation of windows 7 version of DirectX 11.1

So I should upgrade to Windows 10?


RE: Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - wsnipex - 2017-01-04

yes


RE: Kodi + GTX 1080 + 4K hevc decode - afedchin - 2017-01-04

upgrade to at least Windows 8