[djhifi]

I have the following setup:

Synology NAS 1813+ and Emby server (configured with direct paths, no transcoding)
Nvidia Shield TV (direct paths, of course)
Kodi Krypton 17.6

I have the 3 Hobbits movies encoded in h265 10bit.
Whenever I try to play them (hardware decoding is "on") the files dont open and throw the following error into the log:

23:29:33.579 T:199521592560   ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecAndroidMediaCodec::GetOutputPicture ExceptionCheck; dequeueOutputBuffer
23:29:33.579 T:199521592560   ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecAndroidMediaCodec:ecode ExceptionCheck
23:29:33.580 T:199521592560   DEBUG: CVideoPlayerVideo - video decoder returned error

debug log

If I de-select hardware decoding in KODI options, file opens altough (as expected) stutters.

[Karellen]

Kodi Krypton 17.6

No support for 10 bit in v17.6

[wesk05]

No support for 10 bit in v17.6 

I don't think that matters for MediaCodec (Surface) rendering.

I have the 3 Hobbits movies encoded in h265 10bit.
Whenever I try to play them (hardware decoding is "on") the files dont open and throw the following error into the log:
If I de-select hardware decoding in KODI options, file opens altough (as expected) stutters.

Video encoding profile: HEVC (Rext) yuv444p10le 
This is to be expected. Your video is encoded with a profile that has no support for hardware decoding on any available consumer device. This can only be software decoded and you would need a beefy CPU.

[Karellen]

I don't think that matters for MediaCodec (Surface) rendering.

Right. Thanks @wesk05

[dbean]

i'm also confused by this.  when I get movies with 10bit, some play some don't . If kodi doesn't support 10bit, but i've watched them in kodi and then DL them to have 2/3rds unplayable, what is kodi sending to be able to watch them through kodi. downgrading them?