Posts by adam.h.

Quote from chewitt

If you want more changelog info please go look at the full/original commit log on GitHub. We have no plans to bloat page load times and increase webserver load with more commit data that likely few people read.

Yeah, right - we are listing as for now 145 build images (starting from May 2024) and only 20 past commits, no bloating at all, just perfect excuse for someone not getting work done?

Nah, that would be just stupid to keep both in sync (say past 20 builds + 20 commits)

yeah, go for new hw

You can always install EXT4 driver on Windows laptop.

Quote from Marcin

Is force mounting going to fix errors from LE?

It won't fix anything, just mount it regardless these errors. The other (maybe better) option is to fix the disk in Windows system and change LE to mount it always as RO (the above url to autostart is good reference for details).

BTW, the option to mount external contents disks as RO could be good extension for LE, but perhaps it happens so rarely that it is not worth the effort. I'm using RPi5 with latest LE12 and SSD disk formatted as NTFS and while I had that "dirty disc" errors in the past (probably around LE10 or LE9), it works now without problems. So this could be also some combination of disc type, NTFS and LE version (driver version).

There is force mount option in ntfs3, so you could eventually give it a try - not sure what is now the best way to add it for default options in LE, perhaps via autostart as described here.

`````sudo mount -t ntfs3 -o force /dev/sda1 /media/ext

Oh sure, just be patient enough and all the problems will magically solve themselves! 😀

With the following nightly LE release I can play above stream without problems:

 Starting Kodi (22.0-ALPHA1 (21.90.700) Git:db813bfaec3b3bd510e084158fec3ad7be7557a2). Platform: Linux x86 64-bit
 Using Release Kodi x64
 Kodi compiled 2024-10-02 by GCC 14.2.0 for Linux x86 64-bit version 6.11.0 (396032)
 Running on LibreELEC (community): nightly-20241002-a95d055 13.0, kernel: Linux x86 64-bit version 6.11.0
 FFmpeg version/source: 6.0.1
 Host CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10210U CPU @ 1.60GHz, 8 cores available

 CAddonMgr::FindAddons: inputstream.adaptive v22.1.4.1 installed
 CAddonMgr::FindAddons: inputstream.ffmpegdirect v22.0.1.1 installed
 CAddonMgr::FindAddons: inputstream.rtmp v22.0.0.1 installed
 CAddonMgr::FindAddons: kodi.binary.instance.inputstream v3.3.0 installed
 SECTION:LoadDLL(/storage/.kodi/addons/inputstream.adaptive/inputstream.adaptive.so.22.1.5)

 CAddonMgr::FindAddons: repository.slyguy v0.0.9 installed
 CAddonMgr::FindAddons: script.module.slyguy v0.85.23 installed
 CAddonMgr::FindAddons: slyguy.dependencies v0.0.22 installed
 CAddonMgr::FindAddons: slyguy.disney.plus v0.17.3 installed

However someone with fresh eye catched up that it originally failed on HEVC stream and now it is openning H264 stream, so perhaps Kodi in this version has different preferences - not sure if H264 stream was available originally or was added later by Disney...

I'm just pointing out that it would be more useful to keep in sync releases with changelog info, but perhaps this is just me trying to make some sense out of it.

I'm not asking for more work from developers, just as in the attached example - if we show URLs to around 70 nightly releases, why not make Changelog table also showing 70 pull requests instead of last 18 like currently? I suppose this is some simple update to script rendering these pages?

Guys, could you make the changelog table a bit longer to cover all available nightly builds? For example, in Generic LE13, I have builds from May to September, but the changelog only shows releases from mid-July.

I discovered that LE13 01416e0 is not handling subtitles properly, so I had to downgrade to a randomly chosen build from July 20, as the latest changelog entry only shows releases from July 25.

I know I could spend time looking directly on GitHub, but why not make these pages a little more useful?

After quick discussion with addon creator and ISA maintainers finally I opened Kodi ticket for this...

Some more forensic analysis

Here are the stream properties:

General
Complete name                            : Machine Gun Kelly’s Life in Pink.mp4
Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Base Media
Codec ID                                 : isom (isom/dby1/iso2/mp41)
File size                                : 2.29 GiB
Duration                                 : 1 h 41 min
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 3 219 kb/s
Frame rate                               : 23.976 FPS
Movie name                               : Machine Gun Kelly’s Life in Pink
Description                              : 'Machine Gun Kelly’s Life in Pink'
Recorded date                            : 2022
Writing application                      : Lavf60.3.100
Cover                                    : Yes

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : HEVC
Format/Info                              : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile                           : Main [email protected]@Main
Codec ID                                 : hvc1
Codec ID/Info                            : High Efficiency Video Coding
Duration                                 : 1 h 41 min
Bit rate                                 : 2 958 kb/s
Width                                    : 1 280 pixels
Height                                   : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 10 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.134
Stream size                              : 2.10 GiB (92%)
Title                                    : BAMTech video
Color range                              : Limited
Color primaries                          : BT.709
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.709
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709
Codec configuration box                  : hvcC

Audio
ID                                       : 3
Format                                   : E-AC-3
Format/Info                              : Enhanced AC-3
Commercial name                          : Dolby Digital Plus
Codec ID                                 : ec-3
Duration                                 : 1 h 41 min
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 256 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel layout                           : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 186 MiB (8%)
Title                                    : BAMTech audio / English
Language                                 : English
Service kind                             : Complete Main
Default                                  : Yes
Alternate group                          : 1
Dialog Normalization                     : -29 dB
compr                                    : -0.28 dB
mixlevel                                 : 105 dB
roomtyp                                  : Small
dialnorm_Average                         : -29 dB
dialnorm_Minimum                         : -29 dB
dialnorm_Maximum                         : -29 dB

Suprisingly it plays well from the file, even with enabled vaapi, and the same content fails with vaapi when it is streamed. See attached 2 screenshots from playing file and playing the stream.

So perhaps the problem is not really in ffmpeg or drivers/kernel, but somewhere between InputStream Adaptive / Disney+ Addon / FFMpeg?

EDIT: I forgot to add log file.

Ok, so to complete this journey here is the log with Linux version 6.10.0-rc3 and FFmpeg version 6.1.1, the stream is not playable when hardware acceleration is enabled.

Let me know if you think I can contribute with anything else.

I'm using that setup: <setting id="debug.setextraloglevel">128,2048,32768,262144</setting> so ffmpeg is covered. I didn't try with ffmpeg 6.1.1 though.

I tried that sample file attached to 23699 and it works fine for both software codec and hardware acceleration, see the log. As expected, with vaapi enabled it plays very smoothly, while it slightly stutters with software codec.

So I suppose it is something else im my stream which causes these issues.

Hi chewitt, I checked that all these HEVC samples work well with and without hardware acceleration, so it seems that there is something specific with my tested HEVC stream.

I could provide like 10 sec sample of that failing HEVC stream for further investigations, but since simple hacks with playercorefactory/ffmpeg are not working with the new Kodi and this is prioprietary Disney contents I suppose I would need some guidance (PM?) how to proceed with this.

Thanks for the pointers. I compiled PR for 6.10-rc3 but the latest kernel didn't change anything.

In case you want to look int the log file, first part shows software codec (it works), second part shows hardware support enabled (it breaks).

Hi chewitt, I don't think this is LE issue (perhaps more the problem in the NUC BIOS), but if you want to see the log, here it is.

Maybe this was discussed already here, but I cannot find anything specific. Perhaps my adventures will help someone.

In theory NUC10 should be fine with HEVC (hardware decoding is available in 10th gen.). But not in my case, the HEVC movie was just generating sound and video screen was not refreshing. I could see multiple entries in the log file, like: ffmpeg[0x1c3b8a30]: [hevc] hardware accelerator failed to decode picture.

So it helped to disable hardware acceleration in the Player settings. Apparently hardware driver was not as good as the software driver. Attaching also screenshot for the reference.

Thanks chewitt, just verified that the fix works on x86 as well.