2015-08-02, 15:38
It seems there's not much improvement in playback problem of x265/HEVC in recent builds. The video freeze-pixelation-recovery sequences happened over a dozen times during playback of a 40 minutes episode. Most of the time, the video freeze could recover by itself after a few seconds and continue playback. Only in a few occasions the RPi2 just hanged.
However there is no movies playback problem mentioned by @rob77 for me. In fact, build #0801 did fix a DTS audio track problem. The problem starts with lost of audio and then followed by video freeze. I knew it was the DTS audio track as after I replaced it with HE-AAC audio track, it plays flawlessly until the end. I tried to rolled back to 5.0.1 but problem persisted. With build #0801, this problem just gone.
BTW, I tried to disable the de-interlace feature to see if it helps to fix the x265/HEVC playback problem but I couldn't found how to turn it off in the setup menu.
However there is no movies playback problem mentioned by @rob77 for me. In fact, build #0801 did fix a DTS audio track problem. The problem starts with lost of audio and then followed by video freeze. I knew it was the DTS audio track as after I replaced it with HE-AAC audio track, it plays flawlessly until the end. I tried to rolled back to 5.0.1 but problem persisted. With build #0801, this problem just gone.
BTW, I tried to disable the de-interlace feature to see if it helps to fix the x265/HEVC playback problem but I couldn't found how to turn it off in the setup menu.
