Custom profiles/settings for different media

    Hi,

    is there a way to tell Kodi by default i.e. PRIME DRM + HW encoding is on, except if the video is i.e. x264/h.264 10-bit, then use SW encoding, or if specific language x is set as default for audio, enable or disable subtitles no matter the language preference?

    If not, would a feature request made here (yes feature request forum) be enough or better in the Kodi "main branch"?

    Greetings and thanks in advance

    IG

    Kodi has logic for handling fall-back to software decoding with DRMPRIME hardware decoding enabled. As no hardware supports 10-bit H264 hardware decoding it will always fall-back to software. This normally gives bad results because software decoding 10-bit H264 requires lots of CPU and few users are using high(er)-end Intel chips that are capable of the task.

    Subtitles support selection preferences for default selection when there's a collection of subs to choose from, but there's currently no way to say "if english keep subs off, if french turn subs on" .. the on/off decision is always manual and user determined. If you want that to change you need to make a request in the Kodi forum feature-requests section. If you want to submit something to the Kodi main branch it needs to be code because Team Kodi doesn't accept requests via GitHub issues - it's a bug tracker so if you make one it will be closed.

    Thanks for your reply and sorry for the belated answer.

    The notification mail got put into the Spam folder.

    It seems the fallback to SW decode doesn't work for me.

    To get any kind of video output with h.264 video (1080p) and FLAC audio I had to increase the allocated RAM for GPU in the config.txt to at least 128MB (it's on 256MB now) but with pink/purple fragments and it sticks to PRIME DRM HW decoding.

    Manually setting the decoding to software did the trick for those kinds of videos.

    That is a workaround.

    Maybe a clean install of libreelec might do the trick here. I do faintly recall noticing something like this with the LE 9.x versions.

    Thanks again for your explanation and redirection to the Kodi forum regarding the subtitles.

    Greetings and regards

    IG