[Luke M]

About hi10p - https://kodi.wiki/view/Archive:Hi10P, hardware support has been non existent for a long time, making it impossible to play without a powerful cpu. But recently, there was a change on this page https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-t...ftvstick4k

H.264. Hardware accelerated up to 3840x2160p (4K) @ 60fps, 20 Mbps, High 10 Profile Level 5.2

And today, I've confirmed that plex is able to direct play hi10p. Now, kodi could always direct play it but that was through falling back on software decode, resulting in dropped frames/stuttering making playback impossible. But plex is using the new hwdecode and plays smoothly, which I'm pretty sure was not the case a few months ago. Even emby, vlc, mx and the other players don't seem to have support for it yet. Is there something planned about that that I missed or should I make a post in feature requests or something?

Very interesting discovery. I tried it with Kodi and it fails with "profile not supported: 16" in the debug log - which is what you would expect if the profile (AVCProfileHigh10) isn't supported. It's trying, but it can't find a profile match. It would be interesting to defeat this profile search, just plow ahead regardless, and see if it works.

So I built an experimental version of Kodi that ignores High10 and....it works! Smooth playback of >10mb/s 1080p AVC High10.

Edit: Found a problem. Resolutions other than 1080p (e.g. 720p) don't play correctly. The color is 100% green, for one thing.