Odroid C2 Q's

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    My apologies on intruding on this discussion, but since the OP has both a C2 and an Intel-based box, I'd like to ask whether upgrading from 11 to 12 on C2 introduced any issues on H264 playback. Specifically:

    * seeking causes artifacting to appear

    * in worse cases, kodi restarts

    * in general the frequency of problems with H264 increased dramatically on 12 (on 11 I can't recall having any issues at all)

    Do you recall encountering any similar issues on H264 material after upgrading to LE12?

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    I wouldn't expect any real-world differences between releases as nothing on the kernel side has really changed (nobody did any real work on the decoders since 2020). That said, Kodi and ffmpeg versions changed so it's not impossible. Seeking is generally okay on H264 in my testing, but the decoders are all known to be imperfect, and there are some unresolved memory buffer management issues that when provoked with lots of stop/start/seek activity will leave the decoder driver in a bad state, although I've not see any Kodi crash/restarts from them.

    The sole real-world decoding change is https://github.com/chewitt/linux/…aa21f07ee54d028