2018-11-12, 12:24
(2018-11-12, 12:06)wsnipex Wrote: the fix is in v18 beta5, so likely have another issue. Provide a Debug Log pleaseOk, when I go back home I'll do a few more tests and generate a debug log.
(2018-11-12, 12:06)wsnipex Wrote: the fix is in v18 beta5, so likely have another issue. Provide a Debug Log pleaseOk, when I go back home I'll do a few more tests and generate a debug log.
(2018-11-13, 11:25)wsnipex Wrote: So, on your hardware it behaves the opposite way, HW decoding is broken. Issues like this probably where the original reason to disable it for DVDs. Can you confirm that beta4 works normally?When I go back home I try it and confirm if it works.
(2018-11-13, 11:50)wsnipex Wrote: if an A53 can't play mpeg2, then something is seriously wrong. Anyway, looks like there is no single 1 solution for those droid issues. Back to an expert setting?Maybe it's the solution to cover all the cases, as proposed @fritsch :
(2018-10-23, 07:09)fritsch Wrote: So current discussion goes towards an Expert-Setting: "Allow acceleration for DVD playback" that will be Android only, but off by default.
Quote:Yesterday I tried to install beta 4 using Kodi Android Installer but I did not get it to work. At the end of the download either nothing happened or the installation failed. Finally I decided to make a backup of the configuration and the database with Backup Addon and then use the play store to uninstall Kodi and reinstall the Kodi 17.6 Krypton version. This time it worked perfectly when installing beta 4 using Kodi Android Installer.Downgrading from Beta5 to Beta4 does not work due to version number change. You indeed need to uninstall Kodi before doing so.
Quote:I tried to play the same video with which I made the debug log, but it also worked badly, since the player was using the HW acceleration anyway, since it is not a complete DVD it is a single video extracted in vob format. So the problem really is not in DVD playback is in playing any mpeg2 video on Android, so the proposed option does not cover all cases...Indeed the patch only switches HW acceleration for DVD structures (IFO). In case of video files (VOB, MPG, TS), HW acceleration is always used (in case MediaCodec is enabled).
Quote:Most of the videos / dvd that I tried were perfect although some had sporadically skip frame and even some drop, but not constantly. There really was a lot of free cpu during playback (my device has an Amlogic S912 Octa Core) so I did not expect to see those glitches, but of course much better than with acceleration activated.Indeed SW decoding MPEG-2 is pretty bad on Android TV, so even on an octa core A53. On a quad core A53 (which most Android TVs are based on), it is not usable at all.
(2018-11-13, 11:50)wsnipex Wrote: if an A53 can't play mpeg2, then something is seriously wrong. Anyway, looks like there is no single 1 solution for those droid issues. Back to an expert setting?
(2018-11-15, 10:54)wsnipex Wrote: did you turn on "settings->player->video->sync playback to display"?