2019-07-05, 00:44
I just saw an article on freaktabe about all amlogic code to be removed from kodi 19 ( https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/16043/files ).
I'm a little confused, wasn't the amlogic support removed fom kodi with krypton? I remember the the option to enable amcodec acceleration disappeared. In fact, googling about that subject shows a lot of results from 2017 from this forum, of people saying that amcodec support was dropped.
That leads me to another question: why does my very old android box runs fine with mediacodec? It has an old amlogic 905 soc and android lolipop and yet, it plays fine 4k 60 fps content, avc or hevc.. (i pressed "o" and it says it's using amc-h264 (HW) which is android mediacodec, right?) with amcodec disabled (on jarvis) or missing (krypton and leia). Why do i read online so many people complaining that they had to move from android to libre/openelec in order to maintain hardware acceleration with krypton, if it seems to run fine without the amlogic specific codecs? I know that newer soc's do run fine with mediacodec on newer versions of android, but this is a very old and cheap box. Am i missing something?
Thanks in advance.
I'm a little confused, wasn't the amlogic support removed fom kodi with krypton? I remember the the option to enable amcodec acceleration disappeared. In fact, googling about that subject shows a lot of results from 2017 from this forum, of people saying that amcodec support was dropped.
That leads me to another question: why does my very old android box runs fine with mediacodec? It has an old amlogic 905 soc and android lolipop and yet, it plays fine 4k 60 fps content, avc or hevc.. (i pressed "o" and it says it's using amc-h264 (HW) which is android mediacodec, right?) with amcodec disabled (on jarvis) or missing (krypton and leia). Why do i read online so many people complaining that they had to move from android to libre/openelec in order to maintain hardware acceleration with krypton, if it seems to run fine without the amlogic specific codecs? I know that newer soc's do run fine with mediacodec on newer versions of android, but this is a very old and cheap box. Am i missing something?
Thanks in advance.