[S905X] Can't play 4K UHD H265 10-Bit

  • Hi guys,

    with the nice help of chewitt I've been able to update my Xoro HST 260 to LE 12.0.2. However, I'm unable to play back this  short clip with German and English subs. The 2 loading circles keep spinning but nothing happens while the clip runs fine on Windows and CE. Does it play back for you?

    Also, I seem to be unable to find the keyboard shortcut for AudioNextLanguage when using LE with a keyboard, can you guys help me out? And how do I set a topic I started to resolved?

  • I'll have a look at the sample video later in the week once home from Kodi DevCon.

    I'm not sure there's a default button for next language, but you could create a custom keymap that uses AudioNextLanguage if that's one of the built-in Kodi commands.

    You can mark threads as resolved using the "Edit Thread" button above ^

  • Thanks, looking forward to it. In the meantime of course anybody else is welcome to try and to chime in if this clip plays on their hardware. Come on guys, it's only 800 KB and 25 seconds!

  • It's 4K UHD H265 10-bit media that appears to have some kind of DV profile embedded. I can't see anything wrong with the media, but there are numerous things wrong with the current (unfinished since Q1/2020) H265 hardware decoder. At this stage if it works for you that's great. If it doesn't work, there's really nothing we can do, unless you have $250k spare to finance some commercial development to resume/resurrect codec development.

  • Thanks for clearing that up, chewitt. I guess' I'll have to pass on your offer though due to lack of funds.

    Still, like I wrote here, I'm also seeing issues with run-of-the-mill h264 files, practically each time I watch a file. The playback stops at ~10 minutes into the file and sometimes even after that; the most was 4 times during a 90 min movie. Dunno what to do about that since logging does not seem to work as intended for me.

    One more thing: I've bought the same Xoro for my girlfriend's house which has been working fine on her Samsung TV for the longest time. However, I've switched cables and ports, but the CEC connection does not work anymore. The Pulse-Eight CEC Adapter's connection message pops up when Kodi has completed booting but even when the 'connected to TV' message is shown, the TV's remote still can't control Kodi (it does however, when I connect the player to my TV at home).

    Any idea how to fix this or how to make the original remote work with Kodi? Thank you.