[CladS]

Hi,

First of all, thank you for your work. I was really interested in having the new ISS and under sea videos playing as screensaver as they are not part of the "official" Aerial screensaver in Kodi.
However, it is not working as expected on my side. I am running OSMC (Kodi 18.5) on a Rpi 3.
After several errors I finally managed to manually download some videos. They appear to be in HEVC, which obviously is not well supported on Rpi.

Did you already consider to add a feature to choose H264 in a future version ?
I know these versions already exists (for example in Aerial screensaver on Mac, or here : https://bzamayo.com/watch-all-the-apple-...3377708553 )
I could manually download them and load them locally, but filename must be changed for all of them so that's not really handy.

Thanks

[CladS]

Did you already consider to add a feature to choose H264 in a future version ?
I know these versions already exists (for example in Aerial screensaver on Mac, or here : https://bzamayo.com/watch-all-the-apple-...3377708553 )
I could manually download them and load them locally, but filename must be changed for all of them so that's not really handy.

Thanks

So I had a quick look into your GitHub, and it seems you already include H264 videos, as we can see here : https://github.com/EvolveEcosystem/scree...erial.json
So basically for each video you have :
"url-1080-H264"
"url-1080-HDR"
"url-1080-SDR"
"url-4K-HDR"
"url-4K-SDR":

You offer the possibility in settings to choose between HD and 4K, but can we already "force" H264 ?
Thank you.

[smitchell6879]

Did you already consider to add a feature to choose H264 in a future version ?
I know these versions already exists (for example in Aerial screensaver on Mac, or here : https://bzamayo.com/watch-all-the-apple-...3377708553 )
I could manually download them and load them locally, but filename must be changed for all of them so that's not really handy.

Thanks

So I had a quick look into your GitHub, and it seems you already include H264 videos, as we can see here : https://github.com/EvolveEcosystem/scree...erial.json
So basically for each video you have :
"url-1080-H264"
"url-1080-HDR"
"url-1080-SDR"
"url-4K-HDR"
"url-4K-SDR":

You offer the possibility in settings to choose between HD and 4K, but can we already "force" H264 ?
Thank you.

The only things that will play in Kodi are h264. 1080sdr and 4ksdr. So when you select hd I am giving you 1080sdr. Is there a reason or reason h264 is preferred?

[CladS]

The only things that will play in Kodi are h264. 1080sdr and 4ksdr. So when you select hd I am giving you 1080sdr. Is there a reason or reason h264 is preferred? 

Thank you for your answer.
1080sdr from http://sylvan.apple.com/ are in H265.
So having the possibility to choose H264 instead could indeed be helpful for those running Rpi.

[smitchell6879]

The only things that will play in Kodi are h264. 1080sdr and 4ksdr. So when you select hd I am giving you 1080sdr. Is there a reason or reason h264 is preferred? 

Thank you for your answer.
1080sdr from http://sylvan.apple.com/ are in H265.
So having the possibility to choose H264 instead could indeed be helpful for those running Rpi.

Alright we I will see what I can do

[CladS]

That would be great !
But after some tests on my side, it may be related to the way stream is managed.

I tried to replace SDR by H264 in source code in both versions (K18 and K19). It works great for download and local playback, but not so good for stream.
Same thing if I only change url "header" in files that list all url (so replacing url-1080-H264 by url-1080-SDR for example).
For stream, I get a black screen except for some locations like San Francisco. But links are good as I can download them.
So this is maybe due to cache management when videos are loading before playing, not sure. I have a fast internet connexion so there should be no issue with stream.

[smitchell6879]

That would be great !
But after some tests on my side, it may be related to the way stream is managed.

I tried to replace SDR by H264 in source code in both versions (K18 and K19). It works great for download and local playback, but not so good for stream.
Same thing if I only change url "header" in files that list all url (so replacing url-1080-H264 by url-1080-SDR for example).
For stream, I get a black screen except for some locations like San Francisco. But links are good as I can download them.
So this is maybe due to cache management when videos are loading before playing, not sure. I have a fast internet connexion so there should be no issue with stream.

Well I check the video files with mediainfo as i have them all save locally in all variants. The HD videos labels as h264 are AVC the ones your calling H265 are HEVC and to my surprise the 4K HDR that I have not added to the mix are HEVC with Doby Vision which i guess is why they will not play in Kodi. Either way I added a new option in the settings "Select prefered HD video format" with HEVC-265 default and AVC-264 as a option. AS far as the streaming issue I am going to have to put that back on Kodi as I have yet to get it to work consistently cross platform. I will be adding a stop point later for android user only allowing them to use local mode as stream will not work at all with them only get black screen due to bad header requests that the Kodi Player uses and i have no control over.

And the new version is 1.1.1

[smitchell6879]

Keep in mind I am only updating screensaver.evolve.apple the version for Kodi 19. I just pushed a update to 1.1.2 this will include a catch to stop streaming on all android devices, also fixed a uncaught crash that I failed to catch earlier.

[CladS]

Thank you for this quick update.

So I gave it a try but with no more success on stream feature.
I keep getting errors. But at least, it tries to load the AVC-H264 version 

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Is it the same issue you were talking about for android ?

[smitchell6879]

Thank you for this quick update.

So I gave it a try but with no more success on stream feature.
I keep getting errors. But at least, it tries to load the AVC-H264 version 

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Is it the same issue you were talking about for android ?

Cant say for sure unless you can run debug with curlib enabled. If you do and we can verify it then I can at least add warning as I have done with Android. Also may you attach the evolve.log as well as kodi.log so that i can verify something i am checking in my logger?

[trichloro]

Thank you for the great add-on.
Can I ask for a possible feature?  With the power management feature, would it be possible to make it longer than 120 minutes?  Indefinite would be great or if not go up to 999 minutes?   As we never turn the device with kodi off and like it as artwork while not in use.  If not still a great add-on.  Thanks again.

[smitchell6879]

Thank you for the great add-on.
Can I ask for a possible feature?  With the power management feature, would it be possible to make it longer than 120 minutes?  Indefinite would be great or if not go up to 999 minutes?   As we never turn the device with kodi off and like it as artwork while not in use.  If not still a great add-on.  Thanks again.

If you don't want Kodi to turn off then don't set the Power Management feature leave it default in Kodi and in the addon, then the screen will never turn off. if your using the newest version then the Power Management features isn't even coded in yet, so if your screen is turning off then is because of something else.

[CladS]

Thank you for this quick update.

So I gave it a try but with no more success on stream feature.
I keep getting errors. But at least, it tries to load the AVC-H264 version 

paste

Is it the same issue you were talking about for android ?

Cant say for sure unless you can run debug with curlib enabled. If you do and we can verify it then I can at least add warning as I have done with Android. Also may you attach the evolve.log as well as kodi.log so that i can verify something i am checking in my logger?  

Here we are (for 1.1.2 running on Kodi 18.5 I had the same issues with 1.1.13, so not related to python version I guess) :
kodi log
evolve log

First video not loading, second video loading OK, third not loading.
I deleted thousands of lines with "XBMC not playing video".

It seems it is not the same hostname (sylvan.apple.com NOK, A1.phobos.apple.com OK) but I am not really good at debugging this kind of errors... Hope you'll have more luck !

[smitchell6879]

Thank you for this quick update.

So I gave it a try but with no more success on stream feature.
I keep getting errors. But at least, it tries to load the AVC-H264 version 

paste

Is it the same issue you were talking about for android ?

Cant say for sure unless you can run debug with curlib enabled. If you do and we can verify it then I can at least add warning as I have done with Android. Also may you attach the evolve.log as well as kodi.log so that i can verify something i am checking in my logger?  

Here we are (for 1.1.2 running on Kodi 18.5 I had the same issues with 1.1.13, so not related to python version I guess) :
kodi log
evolve log

First video not loading, second video loading OK, third not loading.
I deleted thousands of lines with "XBMC not playing video".

It seems it is not the same hostname (sylvan.apple.com NOK, A1.phobos.apple.com OK) but I am not really good at debugging this kind of errors... Hope you'll have more luck !

So it may work with some file if hosted from A1.phobos.apple.com? Either way i can not change where the files are hosted, I could make a specail streaming playlist for linux/ android if A1.phobos.apple.com does work for you. What i see as a cause is the same issue i have with nivida shield where the Upgrade request is bad on the second or third call to the server to get another chunk of the video. And this i do not have any control over and con only recommend downloading the videos as my script handles those request and seem to work fine. Sorry I am not much help.

[vermope]

Hi, I've found another small bug: when resuming a video after the screensaver was enabled during pause the subtitles are gone and need to be re-enabled again. Not a biggie, just a heads up.