Pixelation/Corruption of animated shows

1st Official Post

    This is a strange problem as I don't know if it's a rendering issue, a codec/decoding issue, or just the nature of the Raspberry Pi.

    I'm using a Raspberry Pi Zero to play media over SMB shares, and for the most part everything works flawlessly over Wi-Fi and Powerline Ethernet. However there is a small handful of animated shows which when played have a tiny bit of lag (at certain points the video will stop for a split second) or have severe pixelation in background colours/warping/mismatched colours/green corruption.

    If I play them on my Windows PC with MPC they turn out fine, and I've another PC with a stable version of LibreELEC which also plays fine, so it's only the Pi with the problem.

    • Official Post

    There is not a lot we can do (or see) without a proper kodi.log file.
    Restart the RPi for a clean log file, and play one of the problematic videos.
    Send in your log after that.

    Okey dokey, here is the info;

    Video 1
    wTLcqDU2

    Media Player Classic says:

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    Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1440x1080 23.976fps [V: h264 high 10 L5.0, yuv420p10le, 1440x1080 [default]]
Audio: AAC 48000Hz stereo [A: Japanese 2.0 [jpn] (aac lc, 48000 Hz, stereo) [default]]
Audio: AAC 48000Hz stereo [A: English Dub [eng] (aac lc, 48000 Hz, stereo)]
Subtitle: Advanced SubStation Alpha [S: English Subs [eng] (ass) [default]]
Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: No subtitles]

    Video 2
    8x7Kw1em

    Media Player Classic says:

    Code
    Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1440x1080 23.976fps [V: h264 high 10 L5.0, yuv420p10le, 1440x1080 [default]]
Audio: AAC 48000Hz stereo [A: Japanese 2.0 [jpn] (aac lc, 48000 Hz, stereo) [default]]
Audio: AAC 48000Hz stereo [A: English 2.0 [eng] (aac lc, 48000 Hz, stereo)]
Subtitle: Advanced SubStation Alpha [S: English Subs [eng] (ass) [default]]
Subtitle: UTF-8 [S: No subtitles]
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    Media Player Classic says:

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    Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1440x1080 23.976fps [V: h264 high 10 L5.0, yuv420p10le, 1440x1080 [default]]

    Media Player Classic says:

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    Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1440x1080 23.976fps [V: h264 high 10 L5.0, yuv420p10le, 1440x1080 [default]]

    You are trying to play 10-bits video encoded files which i think is not HW supported by the Raspberry Pi Zero, so the CPU is struggling to decode it.

    Edited once, last by vitorp07 (January 17, 2017 at 8:55 PM).