[ale] OT: Kodi fails on video.

Boris Borisov bugyatl at gmail.com
Mon Oct 3 12:09:44 EDT 2016


Thank you for the effort. That result matches mine. Obviously video is
incompatible with PI and PI2 hardware decoders. I'll look at kodi.log file.

On Oct 3, 2016 7:38 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> On 09/30/2016 05:49 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> > Is not available online on Smithsonian site. They have small clips
> > there a these are playable. The issue is with video in Smithsonian
> > add-on for Kodi. At least no don't know how to download with Kodi.
> >
>
> Won't help you this time, but for lurkers ...  Generally, if you look at
> the kodi.log file, about 12 lines from the bottom when you ask it to
> play will be the URL to the file.  Grab that, use wget/youtube-dl whatever.
>
> If kodi can see it, it is on the internet if it isn't coming through a
> TV tuner.
>
> Ok ... just installed that plugin.
>
> Only see "The King's Skeleton: Richard III Revealed."
> On my r-pi2, plays at 1080p, stutters badly. Zero audio.  1080p content
> does this if not highly compressed.
>
> The link for it won't download from another client.
>
> Tried playing some other videos.  All the 1080 content had the same
> issue on a r-pi v2. The 720p stuff played beautifully, but not the
> 1080p. Looks like they encoded it with methods the r-pi can't do in HW.
> At that resolution, if the HW decoder can't handle it, then the CPU just
> isn't strong enough.
>
> Added to plugin on an intel Kodi machine (Pentium G3258) this morning.
> It refuses to play that specific title, but all others are working -
> both 720 and 1080 stuff. I suspect there are problems just with that
> single file. Check back in a week and they might have fixed it?
>
> BTW, the Smithsonian Channel is sorta like Discovery meets Animal
> planet.  Watched some Lions being relocated  - good for 10 min of
> entertainment.
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