Hi all,
firstly I want to express sincere appreciation for everyone who works on this project and the adaptation to the RPi4. I've participated in open source projects and commend the status of this project and the benefits for all.
I installed the LibreELEC 9.2.3 version a few days ago (LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-9.2.3.img) following instructions with the USB-SD creator. All went fine, booted up good. Added SMB network shares, no issues. Had the HDMI on Port 1 so had no sound but then moved to Port 0 and all good. I had been running Kodi previously on a small desktop, for about 8 years.
FYI I've got my RasPi hooked up to a Panasonic 50" 1080p TV via the HDMI.
I've got two issues/questions:
1) Sample:
When I try 4K H265 HEVC GoPro clips (ran off the SD card, not the network), they appear to play, however, the video portion is playing at a slightly reduced speed. The audio is OK, but the video plays at some delayed framerate .. It plays smooth though. You can see in the sample. The loss of sync isn't totally obvious but you'll notice when the sound of cutting finishes he's still cutting the wood. The reason I want to be able to play 4K clips is mainly to play GoPro footage I get from various sources, I don't want to re-encode them I'd rather play them and have them downscale to my TV.
2) Sample:
When I play regular mp4 1080p clips from my Canon Camera (local or network) that I have played on previous Kodi installs for years succesfully, the clips play fine, except for maybe ~5 seconds at the beginning that are just slightly out of sync, which the video then returns in sync after a black screen blip. See sample video, ~0:07 mark. Not obvious in this clip but audio and video slightly out of sync and then corrects at that black screen blip. It does this for all those clips.
Also I did play the Korean concert clip from the Kodi Sample page succesfully. Samples - Official Kodi Wiki
MediaInfo output shown below for both files.
Thanks anyone for support on this matter! Otherwise really like the setup!
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GoPro File Media Info:
General
Complete name : \\192.168.0.211\Videos\Andrew 4k60-fpsHEVC.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 1
Codec ID : mp41 (mp41)
File size : 211 MiB
Duration : 29 s 333 ms
Overall bit rate : 60.5 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2020-07-09 21:01:27
Tagged date : UTC 2020-07-09 21:01:27
Video
ID : 1
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : [email protected]@Main
Codec ID : hvc1
Codec ID/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Duration : 29 s 329 ms
Bit rate : 60.2 Mb/s
Width : 3 840 pixels
Height : 2 160 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 59.940 (60000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.121
Stream size : 210 MiB (100%)
Title : GoPro H.265
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2020-07-09 21:01:27
Tagged date : UTC 2020-07-09 21:01:27
Color range : Full
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Codec configuration box : hvcC
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 29 s 333 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 kb/s
Nominal bit rate : 48.0 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 677 KiB (0%)
Title : GoPro AAC
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2020-07-09 21:01:27
Tagged date : UTC 2020-07-09 21:01:27
Other #1
ID : 3
Type : Time code
Format : QuickTime TC
Duration : 29 s 329 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Time code of first frame : 01:09:29:52
Time code, striped : Yes
Title : GoPro TCD
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2020-07-09 21:01:27
Tagged date : UTC 2020-07-09 21:01:27
Other #2
Type : meta
Duration : 29 s 312 ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Duration_LastFrame : -718
Other #3
Type : meta
Bit rate mode : Variable
mdhd_Duration : 29329
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Canon File MediaInfo
General
ID : 0 (0x0)
Complete name : F:\Video Workshop\Canon Temp\AVCHD\BDMV\STREAM\00001.MTS
CompleteName_Last : F:\Video Workshop\Canon Temp\AVCHD\BDMV\STREAM\00139.MTS
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
File size : 59.3 GiB
Duration : 2 min 36 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 3 251 Mb/s
Maximum Overall bit rate : 24.0 Mb/s
Recorded date : 2018-10-11 17:50:25-07:00
Writing application : Canon
Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4
Format settings : CABAC / 2 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Codec ID : 27
Duration : 2 min 36 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 3 122 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate : 22.7 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan type, store method : Separated fields
Scan order : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 50.236
Stream size : 56.9 GiB (96%)
Audio
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 2 min 36 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 256 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : -66 ms
Stream size : 4.78 MiB (0%)
Service kind : Complete Main