davilla,
Thanks for pointing that out. I appreciate it.
It seems to me that xbmc is failing to find the hardware H264 codec that is supposed to be available on the Galaxy Tab 3. It looks like it then goes to software decoding using FFMPEG. Can someone tell me if I am interpreting the logcat output correctly? What is the best way to determine if the hardware decoder is being used?
Here is some output from logcat when trying to play back a 720P stream (full log:
http://pastebin.com/xCaNnL2F ):
12-23 08:52:47.539: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 INFO: MediaCodec Video Decoder...
12-23 08:52:47.539: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Video: mediacodec - Opening
12-23 08:52:47.539: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Video: amc-h264 - Failed
12-23 08:52:47.539: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Video: - Opening
12-23 08:52:47.539: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(libpostproc-52-arm.so)
12-23 08:52:47.539: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 DEBUG: Loading: /data/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/lib/libpostproc-52-arm.so
12-23 08:52:47.539: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(libswresample-0-arm.so)
12-23 08:52:47.539: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 DEBUG: Loading: /data/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/lib/libswresample-0-arm.so
12-23 08:52:47.539: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(libavfilter-3-arm.so)
12-23 08:52:47.546: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 DEBUG: Loading: /data/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/lib/libavfilter-3-arm.so
12-23 08:52:47.546: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
12-23 08:52:47.554: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Video: ff-h264 - Opened
12-23 08:52:47.554: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 NOTICE: Creating video thread
12-23 08:52:47.554: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 NOTICE: Opening audio stream: 1 source: 256
12-23 08:52:47.554: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86019
12-23 08:52:47.554: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Audio: passthrough - Opening
12-23 08:52:47.554: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Audio: passthrough - Failed
12-23 08:52:47.554: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Audio: FFmpeg - Opening
12-23 08:52:47.554: V/XBMC(10104): 08:52:47 T:1714434112 DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Audio: FFmpeg - Opene
Here is a snippet from the /etc/media_codecs.xml from the device (full xml
http://pastebin.com/gQ8WQzxD ):
<MediaCodec name="OMX.MARVELL.VIDEO.H264DECODER" type="video/avc" />
<MediaCodec name="OMX.google.h264.decoder" type="video/avc" />