2015-10-10, 10:28
(2015-10-10, 09:25)parcel Wrote:(2015-10-10, 09:20)doveman2 Wrote:(2015-10-10, 08:32)wrxtasy Wrote: No, your expecting too much out of HEVC ffmpeg Software Decoding when trying to play 1080p. You will need a device that supports 1080p HEVC Hardware decoding.
HEVC / 720p resolution at about a Max of 2.5Mb/s bitrate is the limit on an Overclocked RPi2.
Thanks, I'll stick with x264 for now then. I might try re-encoding this file down to 720p to test it though.
I heard called 'OrangePi' that support H265.
http://www.orangepi.org/
Good luck getting any ongoing support with that... (It also uses an Allwinner SoC. Allwinner have been notoriously bad at releasing OpenSource support for their hardware acceleration drivers - so getting the H264, H265, VC-1 or MPEG2 hardware acceleration to work in Kodi under Linux has been an ongoing issue. They also have a history of alleged GPL abuse - facing accusations of releasing software containing GPL code commercially, but then not releasing the sources - which legally they are required to do. There are constant 'we will change' statements from them - but I'm not sure much has yet...)
None of the other ARM platforms has the level of support that the Pi / Pi 2 have. Sure, other ARM platforms may have better specs on paper, but they don't have Kodi developers who know the hardware anywhere near as well.