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The buggy video player is not only affecting Nvidia GPUs.
On my Macbook Air (2013) having an Intel HD Graphics 5000 with 1536 MB, the release 17.x is also not working.
Interesting though on my iMac (2010) it is working.
Overall it is really sad because with the SMB bug not fixed in Kodi 16 this means that the user has to accept a critical security vulnerability in his system or stop using Kodi.
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Which gpu does the imac has. And is the macbook working any better on current kodi 18.x leia nightly builds? - also which smb bug are you refering to?
AppleTV4/iPhone/iPod/iPad: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much:
click here
HowTo setup NFS for Kodi:
NFS (wiki)
HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf):
Avahi_Zeroconf (wiki)
READ THE IOS FAQ!:
iOS FAQ (wiki)
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The iMac has a ATI Radeon HD 5670 512 MB GPU.
With respect of smb bug I recall that there was an update of Kodi couple of months ago that referred to an SMB bug.
With respect of Kodi 18.x tests. I am experiencing a loss of configuration of the Kodi 16 configuration
if I am installing another version. Do you know a way to keep my old installation working?
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I have tried the lasted Kodi 18.x test build and after enabling "allow hardware accelerator VTBDecoder the stuttering was gone.
Hurrah!
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Koyan
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2017-08-02, 23:08
(This post was last modified: 2017-08-03, 23:27 by Koyan.)
I have an early 2009 Mac mini with an Nvidia GeForce 9400. I just tried the latest Leia nightly and indeed playback with hardware acceleration looks much better! I'd almost given up hope. Thanks to the developers, great work!
UPDATE: Sorry, spoke to soon. The problem is still there, but I did find something interesting.
If I start a video on the Mac with vtb hardware decoding, it is very choppy. But if I connect to the Mac mini from my MacBook through screen sharing (vnc), the video immediately turns smooth, and stays that way, even after I quit the screensharing. Starting other videos after that keep playing smooth. If I quit Kodi and restart without the screen sharing, playback is choppy again.
At first I thought the screensharing turned off the hardware decoding, but I don't think that's the case because the CPU usage stays around 40% throughout. If I play a video without HW decoding, it shoots up to near 100%.
I just tested this with Krypton as well, and there it's the same. Somehow Krypton seems already able to play smoothly on older Macs, but something about the screen sharing is needed to kickstart it.
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I am still running el cap on my 2010 mini and it behaves same as yours.
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That thread doesn't give any valuable hint at all
AppleTV4/iPhone/iPod/iPad: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much:
click here
HowTo setup NFS for Kodi:
NFS (wiki)
HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf):
Avahi_Zeroconf (wiki)
READ THE IOS FAQ!:
iOS FAQ (wiki)
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Soli
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2017-08-23, 23:30
(This post was last modified: 2017-08-23, 23:30 by Soli.)
Apple has really decided to drop support of these legacy nvidia gpus a long time ago. As can be witnessed of them being ultra slow with all web rendering and video. They don't support HTML for netflix either, but requires Silverlight and will even stutter with low bitrate 720p. Yup, they require the shitty MS malware on an Apple OS to display low bitrate video. And don't let me get started on HBO...it's even worse.
VTB probably still exist for the gpus, but probably only as a carry-over (which is after all better than being actively removed), and that might be the reason for the bugs? Ie. Not really Kodi's fault. Then again I'm only speculating.
Ps. If you install Win10 64bit, these machines will get a whole new life.. just for the reason that the gpu isn't crippled
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Hi! ... in my macbook white 2009 the macOS High Sierra resolve the problem! I use the kodi v17.4 with hardware acceleration and the cpu does not work 100% ... great!