Posts by HomerJau

Quote from CvH

the necessary bits are not at kodi or ffmpeg yet

I noticed ffmpeg 5 was released a couple days back. Do you know if this adds the HDR support needed by Kodi?

I read ages ago the Intel HDR Linux code worked for NUC6 and later (hence SMPs builds work on your NUC6).

I hope smp does one more (new Atmos fixes in Kodi). His last one from October is still in use here with only issues: some Atmos releases have audio skips and interlaced video not playing with same settings as HDR, but I can work around that easily and I don’t have much interlaced media.

Quote from chewitt

All nightly Generic images are GBM

And HDR now too?

There seems to be ongoing HDR work for LibreElec’s RPi build at the moment so I guess we’ll see generic x86 HDR in official test builds soon (I hope).

In the mean time, smp did a recent HDR build of his generic LE version which you can find here on this thread:

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Intel NUC 8th Gen: SMP’s HDR build: Atmos Skip fix?

I have been using the smp HDR LibreElec HDR build on my Intel NUC8i3BEK for quite a while with excellent results. Thanks smp.

Kodi Git has just added a fix for a long-standing issue that causes skipping in high bitrate Atmos streams. Skipping can be so bad some titles are unplayable (examples: The Beatles Abbey Road album and Free Guy movie) . This fix resolves the issue with changes to Kodi’s audio syncing.

Here is the Matrix branch fix, there’s one for V20 master too:
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HomerJau

Oct 22nd 2021

I’m using this on two Intel NUC8i3BEK NUCs successfully.

Quote from HiassofT

If you are in the mood for some experimental testing here's a first LE11 testbuild with 10/12bit output support

Does this mean we’ll see LE11 HDR testbuilds for generic (Intel) versions soon too?

smp There is a new Kodi Atmos fix that resolves audio skipping in certain files and I’m hoping you could do a new HDR (SMP) build with this fix please?

[audio][TrueHD] Fix detection of stream discontinuities by thexai · Pull Request #20595 · xbmc/xbmc

Description [TrueHD] Fix detection of stream discontinuities. Fixes TrueHD dropouts on very specific streams (Zootopia). Motivation and context Follow-up of…

github.com

This was merged 5 days ago.

THX

Garry

Hey Ken.

Here is a very recent SMP HDR build done just before Kodi 19.3 was released that works for my NUC8:

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Intel NUC 8th Gen: SMP’s HDR build: Atmos Skip fix?

I have been using the smp HDR LibreElec HDR build on my Intel NUC8i3BEK for quite a while with excellent results. Thanks smp.

Kodi Git has just added a fix for a long-standing issue that causes skipping in high bitrate Atmos streams. Skipping can be so bad some titles are unplayable (examples: The Beatles Abbey Road album and Free Guy movie) . This fix resolves the issue with changes to Kodi’s audio syncing.

Here is the Matrix branch fix, there’s one for V20 master too:
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HomerJau

Oct 22nd 2021

Thank you so much!!

Atmos skipping fixed! Thanks again smp

I have been using the smp HDR LibreElec HDR build on my Intel NUC8i3BEK for quite a while with excellent results. Thanks smp.

Kodi Git has just added a fix for a long-standing issue that causes skipping in high bitrate Atmos streams. Skipping can be so bad some titles are unplayable (examples: The Beatles Abbey Road album and Free Guy movie) . This fix resolves the issue with changes to Kodi’s audio syncing.

Here is the Matrix branch fix, there’s one for V20 master too:

[Fix] Reworked TrueHD MAT packer to support high bitrate Atmos streams (fix audio dropouts) by thexai · Pull Request #20361 · xbmc/xbmc

Description Backport of #20339 What is the effect on users? Fixes audio dropouts playing high bitrate TrueHD Atmos streams on all platforms. Types of change…

github.com

smp Would you be able to do a new build of your HDR LibreElec including this fix please?

THX

Garry

smp Hi, I’m wondering if you could please do a new build of your HDR LibreElec release including this fix for Atmos skipping that’s now available:

Atmos Audio Dropouts with UHD-BD

This Atmos issue has been plaguing many for literally years in Kodi.

THX

Garry

Quote from Nekromantik

i may need to wait for subtitles to work in HDR mode as I need them

They work for me in HDR in #629 build

Quote from kenmills

Hey HomerJau (Garry!)! If you don't mind my asking, what model NUC are you running LE10 on, and are you able to get HDR? If so, could you kindly let me know what buid or link to the download you use?

I installed the BETA2 from the main downloads and cannot get HDR on my NUC8i5BEK.

Thx!

Ken

No HDR in official LibreElec yet.

I’m using two NUC8i3BEH NUCs with the build in post #629 by smp and HDR is working well.

I’m hopeful the latest build a couple posts back today by smp will also do the job.

Quote from smp

This is from current Kodi master:

LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-10.0-devel-20210514171417-0f2dcbe.img.gz?dl=1

Excellent. Thank you!

smp Is there any chance you could please do another HDR build for LibreElec from the current (or recent) Kodi 20 master?

There were two committed fixes for 19.1 (and 20) around early April that resolve CUE file read issues in the Kodi music library. These fixes don’t appear to be in your LibreElec build dated 27 April.

I’m saying they aren’t included because using your build I have the CUE file issues these fixes resolve.

There’s at least two of us I know using your build daily that need the CUE fixes (discussed by personal messages). I run your build on two NUCs here.

Anything you can do would be greatly appreciated!

THX

Garry

smp The build earlier today in post #620 looks ok on my NUC8i3BEH. I’ve watched two different HDR movies and they both look great to me. Blacks look black. Subtitles working now, HBR audio too.

Thanks for today’s build!

Quote from smp

I'm not 100% sure about this. Someone tried my build with Kodi compiled from that branch some time ago and it didn't work for them, so I assume it works only on Gemini Lake.

I can confirm no HDR on your image 2 above on my NUC8i3BEH. I’ve gone back to image 1 that’s ok except for subtitles.

Does ffmpeg render subs?

The red subtitle block is just the video stretched to fit in the subtitle frame but shaded red.

Quote from smp

The second one does not have the subtitle issue.

Thanks. I’ll try image 2 on my NUC8i3, but as you stated it may not do HDR on this system.

Thank you smp . Fantastic work!

I’ll test on my new NUC8i3BEH I built earlier today.

EDIT: Image 1 looking good. HDR, HBR audio, multichannel hires FLAC all ok.

Subtitles are a red block, unreadable.

Thanks again SMP!