(2019-01-05, 15:00)Ccd73 Wrote: it seems that disabling "hardware Mediacodec acceleration" and "hardware Mediacodec acceleration (Surface)" in expert mode, fixed my playback problem with AVI. (last Kodi 18 beta). Still testing on other files. Let me know if it fixed to you tooThat's what I proposed 5 pages back. The testers told me, that this is not the case and it would be as bad as with Mediacodec Surface.
(2019-01-05, 23:03)FireInMyHole Wrote:Any other fix you can contribute?(2019-01-05, 15:00)Ccd73 Wrote: it seems that disabling "hardware Mediacodec acceleration" and "hardware Mediacodec acceleration (Surface)" in expert mode, fixed my playback problem with AVI. (last Kodi 18 beta). Still testing on other files. Let me know if it fixed to you tooNot a fix for me.
(2019-01-05, 23:04)fritsch Wrote:Dude, I'm reporting an issue. We're not all programmers.(2019-01-05, 23:03)FireInMyHole Wrote:Any other fix you can contribute?(2019-01-05, 15:00)Ccd73 Wrote: it seems that disabling "hardware Mediacodec acceleration" and "hardware Mediacodec acceleration (Surface)" in expert mode, fixed my playback problem with AVI. (last Kodi 18 beta). Still testing on other files. Let me know if it fixed to you tooNot a fix for me.
(2019-01-06, 18:33)rainman74 Wrote: Please use your own thread, my thread here was referred to to MPEG compliant XVID/MPEG-4/MPEG-2 streams in SD quality and that was corrected! Thank you.What do you mean "compliant?" Nothing has been fixed. You had to remux the source file. Surely, you don't think this is a practical suggestion.
(2019-01-06, 22:37)Rod Pocket Wrote:There are standards that define what mpeg4 is and how it has to be encoded. Files following the standard work fine whereas packed b-frames is not standard compliant and therefore fails to decode properly.(2019-01-06, 18:33)rainman74 Wrote: Please use your own thread, my thread here was referred to to MPEG compliant XVID/MPEG-4/MPEG-2 streams in SD quality and that was corrected! Thank you.What do you mean "compliant?" Nothing has been fixed. You had to remux the source file. Surely, you don't think this is a practical suggestion.
(2019-01-07, 10:30)wsnipex Wrote:Almost no AVIs play since v18.(2019-01-06, 22:37)Rod Pocket Wrote:There are standards that define what mpeg4 is and how it has to be encoded. Files following the standard work fine whereas packed b-frames is not standard compliant and therefore fails to decode properly.(2019-01-06, 18:33)rainman74 Wrote: Please use your own thread, my thread here was referred to to MPEG compliant XVID/MPEG-4/MPEG-2 streams in SD quality and that was corrected! Thank you.What do you mean "compliant?" Nothing has been fixed. You had to remux the source file. Surely, you don't think this is a practical suggestion.
Feel free to complain to your scene group of choice.
(2019-01-08, 00:26)Rod Pocket Wrote:This is not the case, all compliant AVIs play correctly. I have tested it extensively.(2019-01-07, 10:30)wsnipex Wrote:Almost no AVIs play since v18.(2019-01-06, 22:37)Rod Pocket Wrote: What do you mean "compliant?" Nothing has been fixed. You had to remux the source file. Surely, you don't think this is a practical suggestion.There are standards that define what mpeg4 is and how it has to be encoded. Files following the standard work fine whereas packed b-frames is not standard compliant and therefore fails to decode properly.
Feel free to complain to your scene group of choice.
(2019-01-08, 00:32)rainman74 Wrote:I don't know why you're being such an obstructive dickhead here, but it's unhelpful. Telling everyone to go hunt down some obscure software and run command line operations on every file in their library because a version of Kodi has broken legacy support is hardly a fix. Please just STFU.(2019-01-08, 00:26)Rod Pocket Wrote:This is not the case, all compliant AVIs play correctly. I have tested it extensively.(2019-01-07, 10:30)wsnipex Wrote: There are standards that define what mpeg4 is and how it has to be encoded. Files following the standard work fine whereas packed b-frames is not standard compliant and therefore fails to decode properly.Almost no AVIs play since v18.
Feel free to complain to your scene group of choice.
(2019-01-08, 05:44)FireInMyHole Wrote:(2019-01-08, 00:32)rainman74 Wrote:I don't know why you're being such an obstructive dickhead here, but it's unhelpful. Telling everyone to go hunt down some obscure software and run command line operations on every file in their library because a version of Kodi has broken legacy support is hardly a fix. Please just STFU.(2019-01-08, 00:26)Rod Pocket Wrote: Almost no AVIs play since v18.This is not the case, all compliant AVIs play correctly. I have tested it extensively.
(2019-01-08, 07:36)Martijn Wrote:Sigh. Looks like we're going backwards now.(2019-01-08, 05:44)FireInMyHole Wrote:(2019-01-08, 00:32)rainman74 Wrote: This is not the case, all compliant AVIs play correctly. I have tested it extensively.I don't know why you're being such an obstructive dickhead here, but it's unhelpful. Telling everyone to go hunt down some obscure software and run command line operations on every file in their library because a version of Kodi has broken legacy support is hardly a fix. Please just STFU.
Mr. Dickhead is however completely correct. So cool down, behave, and go fix your avi files
(2019-01-08, 10:59)Rod Pocket Wrote:Procedure is explained here(2019-01-08, 07:36)Martijn Wrote:Sigh. Looks like we're going backwards now.(2019-01-08, 05:44)FireInMyHole Wrote: I don't know why you're being such an obstructive dickhead here, but it's unhelpful. Telling everyone to go hunt down some obscure software and run command line operations on every file in their library because a version of Kodi has broken legacy support is hardly a fix. Please just STFU.
Mr. Dickhead is however completely correct. So cool down, behave, and go fix your avi files
Can you please link to somewhere that can clearly explain how to do this?
Maybe it could be put in the FAQ so everyone with this issue can figure out how to process all their vids to make them compliant with this new fangled version of Kodi.
