2016-06-19, 21:14
Hi everyone,
just in the process of replacing our HTPC's mythtv frontend with kodi -- in particular because it supports cec out of the box. Works great so far using the pvr-mythtv addon!
One feature, however, that has degraded since the switch is bluray playback. Mythtv was able to do at least some basic bluray playback (no menus, though), but when trying to play a bluray disk in kodi by choosing "play disk" from the main menu, all I get is some log messages like
(Occasionally, also a message box would pop up, saying that at least one playlist item failed to play.)
The same test bluray disks play fine using, say, vlc.
My system is Debian Jessie, with kodi from jessie-backports.
I initially thought that maybe jessie-backport's kodi package was compiled without bluray support, hence I compiled kodi from scratch, explicitly specifying the --enable-bluray configure option, but still no luck. (Compilation succeeded only after installing libbluray 0.8 from testing, though, since kodi's original source requires at least 0.7, while Jessie gets shipped with 0.6)
So I wonder... does kodi actually support bluray playback by itself, or is bluray playback usually delegated to some external player?
If kodi does actually natively support bluray playback, I'd be grateful for any ideas on how to further debug the lack thereof on my system...
Cheers --
-- tcrass
just in the process of replacing our HTPC's mythtv frontend with kodi -- in particular because it supports cec out of the box. Works great so far using the pvr-mythtv addon!
One feature, however, that has degraded since the switch is bluray playback. Mythtv was able to do at least some basic bluray playback (no menus, though), but when trying to play a bluray disk in kodi by choosing "play disk" from the main menu, all I get is some log messages like
Code:
14:47:42 T:140138906552512 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: /media/cdrom0/BDMV/index.bdmv
14:47:42 T:140138906552512 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
14:47:42 T:140136713017088 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
14:47:42 T:140136713017088 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
14:47:42 T:140136713017088 ERROR: Open - error probing input format, /media/cdrom0/BDMV/index.bdmv
14:47:42 T:140136713017088 ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
14:47:42 T:140136713017088 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
14:47:42 T:140138906552512 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [/media/cdrom0/BDMV/index.bdmv]
14:47:42 T:140138906552512 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
14:47:42 T:140138906552512 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
14:47:42 T:140138906552512 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
14:47:42 T:140138906552512 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
14:47:42 T:140138906552512 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
14:47:42 T:140138906552512 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
(Occasionally, also a message box would pop up, saying that at least one playlist item failed to play.)
The same test bluray disks play fine using, say, vlc.
My system is Debian Jessie, with kodi from jessie-backports.
I initially thought that maybe jessie-backport's kodi package was compiled without bluray support, hence I compiled kodi from scratch, explicitly specifying the --enable-bluray configure option, but still no luck. (Compilation succeeded only after installing libbluray 0.8 from testing, though, since kodi's original source requires at least 0.7, while Jessie gets shipped with 0.6)
So I wonder... does kodi actually support bluray playback by itself, or is bluray playback usually delegated to some external player?
If kodi does actually natively support bluray playback, I'd be grateful for any ideas on how to further debug the lack thereof on my system...
Cheers --
-- tcrass