[SaEt9000]

Hi,

i just tried the SPMC Version 13.2. with mediacodec. It is the first version xbmc which works with mediacodec on himedia Q10 with hisilicon chipset. Until before xbmc always crashes on himedia with mediacodec.
The decoding seems to be better, with deinterlace and easier to navigate on video.
Further tests will follow.

Is this mediacodec Version implemented in actual nightly builds of XBMC ?

Only VC1-coded video is still much to slow.... and 100% CPU usage.

SaEt9000

[Kib]

Using ART, are you.
There will be some fixes for ART in the coming 13.2.

I tried to switch to dalvik and i got the same result:
Here's the log:
http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=244244
And here's the logcat:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2219...dalvik.txt
btw when will be out this 13.2 and these fixes are already in helix alphas?

13.2-beta1 is available on the mirrors, blog post will follow soon.

[SaEt9000]

13.2-beta1 is available on the mirrors, blog post will follow soon.


but the mediacodec is not the same as in SPMC 13.2 - isnt it?

SaEt9000

[Koying]

MediaCodec in SPMC contains fixes which were postponed to Helix.

[phate89]

Tried the new gotham beta but it still crashes. Is there any chance that spmc fixed this bug?

[SaEt9000]

The mediacodec Version in SPMC 13.2.1 , xbmc 13.2 beta2 and in Helix nightly - is it the Same now or are there still differences ?

Tanks
SaEt9000

[Koying]

Just try or check the code. I don't keep a specific list, you know
AND link a logcat (wiki) in case of crash...

[RockerC]

Does Android's MediaCodec API and/or libstagefright currently support HEVC / H.265 hardware decoders?

All that I could find that kind of looked to be somewhat related when searching online was these articles
https://software.intel.com/en-us/android...ed-android
https://software.intel.com/en-us/article...-platforms
https://software.intel.com/en-us/android...-platforms

Reason I ask is that more and more new Android hardware coming out now claim to support HEVC/H.265

Really just wondering if XBMC will support hardware decoding of HEVC / H.265 on those out-of-the-box?

[Koying]

Probably not. Haven't got a device supposed to support it, yet, but even S/W decoding does not seem to work in Gotham.

[phate89]

Probably not. Haven't got a device supposed to support it, yet, but even S/W decoding does not seem to work in Gotham.

ffmpeg in gotham is 1.1 so it hasn't hevc decoding support even by software. sw hevc works in helix because it has ffmpeg 2.3

[SaEt9000]

Just try or check the code. I don't keep a specific list, you know
AND link a logcat (wiki) in case of crash...

Hi,
I was on vacation - thats Why I needed some days..

I made tests now with mediacodec: on (libstagefrigth always off)

SPMC 13.3 - mediacodec works fine with h264.video (but still some interlace-problems with 1080i-video, I can enable "deinterlace" but there is no effect)
XBMC 13.2 beta3 with enabled mediacodec xbmc crashes by starting h264-video
the same is in XBMC (kodi) 14.0 alpha2 helix - it crashes mith mediacodec:on by using h264video

Here is a locgat from device with xbmc 13.2 beta3
http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=260716

I only startet xbmc 13.2 and tried to start the video. Im not familiar with logcat ... is it the infomation you need?

Thanks a lot

SaEt9000

[Hedda]

Does Android's MediaCodec API and/or libstagefright currently support HEVC / H.265 hardware decoders?

All that I could find that kind of looked to be somewhat related when searching online was these articles
https://software.intel.com/en-us/android...ed-android
https://software.intel.com/en-us/article...-platforms
https://software.intel.com/en-us/android...-platforms

Reason I ask is that more and more new Android hardware coming out now claim to support HEVC/H.265

Really just wondering if XBMC will support hardware decoding of HEVC / H.265 on those out-of-the-box?

Probably not. Haven't got a device supposed to support it, yet, but even S/W decoding does not seem to work in Gotham.

It appers that the a first initial patch for Rockchip RK3288 hardware HEVC/H265 decoding on Android (StageFright and MediaCodec API) have now been submitted as a pull request for merger into Kodi/XBMC here on GitHub

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/5374

Many people are waiting for this before purchasing these new boxes, and I would guess that Android development help is wanted for this code to get it working properly

[shomari]

HEVC hardware decoding is being done with mediacodec in a modded XBMC build, but the factory won't release its sources.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1795142

[Hedda]

It appers that the a first initial patch for Rockchip RK3288 hardware HEVC/H265 decoding on Android (StageFright and MediaCodec API) have now been submitted as a pull request for merger into Kodi/XBMC here on GitHub

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/5374

Many people are waiting for this before purchasing these new boxes, and I would guess that Android development help is wanted for this code to get it working properly

@devs, what is the status of pull request #5374 with its initial HEVC support for StageFright and MediaCodec?

Will it be merged into Kodi master as-is soonish? Any ETA on merger into mainline?

And do you think this initial HEVC hardware acceleration support will also make it into version 14 Helix?

[fritsch]

No ETA. Leave the code to the devs, especially as you see that Koying has assigned himself to the PR 16 hours ago.

If you want to help testing this PR, cherry-pick it, build it and try running it.