So I needed a new TV when one of our old plasmas packed up. Would have been pleased to get a deal on 1080p of some sort as I have no desire for 4k, but price-wise here, it would have made no sense. So ended up with a last year’s model 4k. So, of course, I need to see what all the fuss is about. I’m not a pirate by trade, but decided to download a couple rips of 4k material on the thought that if it was a noticeable improvement in quality over 1080p I would consider investing further.
I grabbed a 16Gb copy of Deadpool, a 48Gb copy of Blade Runner 2049 and an episode of Blue Planet II at 16Gb - all of which I own Bluray discs for and have ripped/stored on my NAS.
For some reason Deadpool won’t play. I get a mottled grey screen behind the KODI file list and a play icon in the lower left corner of the screen - like I always get for a millisecond or so when starting media. Then, nothing. KODI is still responding, I can stop the “playback”. The other two play fine.
At the end of the day I don’t care about this file as I’m going to delete then. But curious about what’s different about it. MediaInfo doesn’t show any glaring issues, but you folks can likely point out the problem so here’s the MediaInfo output.
General
Unique ID : 198108658349280122182993887834917395226 (0x950A56F8EBA8030D8DB39D5E4C2D5B1A)
Complete name : Deadpool (2016).mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 16.4 GiB
Duration : 1h 48mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 21.7 Mbps
Writing application : mkvmerge v18.0.0 ('Apricity') 64-bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.5 + libmatroska v1.4.8
Video
ID : 1
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main 10@L5.1@High
Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Duration : 1h 48mn
Width : 3 840 pixels
Height : 1 608 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 10 bits
Writing library : x265 2.5+28-7aeabaa92b85:[Windows][GCC 6.2.1][64 bit] 10bit
Encoding settings : cpuid=1173503 / frame-threads=4 / numa-pools=16 / wpp / no-pmode / no-pme / no-psnr / no-ssim / log-level=2 / input-csp=1 / input-res=3840x1608 / interlace=0 / total-frames=155514 / level-idc=51 / high-tier=1 / uhd-bd=0 / ref=4 / no-allow-non-conformance / repeat-headers / annexb / aud / hrd / info / hash=0 / no-temporal-layers / no-open-gop / min-keyint=23 / keyint=250 / bframes=4 / b-adapt=2 / b-pyramid / bframe-bias=0 / rc-lookahead=25 / lookahead-slices=4 / scenecut=40 / no-intra-refresh / ctu=64 / min-cu-size=8 / rect / no-amp / max-tu-size=32 / tu-inter-depth=1 / tu-intra-depth=1 / limit-tu=0 / rdoq-level=2 / dynamic-rd=0.00 / no-ssim-rd / signhide / no-tskip / nr-intra=0 / nr-inter=0 / no-constrained-intra / no-strong-intra-smoothing / max-merge=3 / limit-refs=3 / limit-modes / me=3 / subme=3 / merange=57 / temporal-mvp / weightp / no-weightb / no-analyze-src-pics / deblock=-3:-3 / no-sao / no-sao-non-deblock / rd=4 / no-early-skip / rskip / no-fast-intra / no-tskip-fast / no-cu-lossless / no-b-intra / no-splitrd-skip / rdpenalty=0 / psy-rd=2.00 / psy-rdoq=1.00 / no-rd-refine / analysis-reuse-mode=0 / no-lossless / cbqpoffs=0 / crqpoffs=0 / rc=crf / crf=17.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpstep=4 / stats-write=0 / stats-read=0 / vbv-maxrate=160000 / vbv-bufsize=160000 / vbv-init=0.9 / crf-max=0.0 / crf-min=0.0 / ipratio=1.40 / pbratio=1.30 / aq-mode=1 / aq-strength=1.00 / cutree / zone-count=0 / no-strict-cbr / qg-size=32 / no-rc-grain / qpmax=69 / qpmin=0 / no-const-vbv / sar=1 / overscan=0 / videoformat=5 / range=0 / colorprim=9 / transfer=16 / colormatrix=9 / chromaloc=1 / chromaloc-top=2 / chromaloc-bottom=2 / display-window=0 / master-display=G(13250,34500)B(7500,3000)R(34000,16000)WP(15635,16450)L(10000000,0) / max-cll=0,0 / min-luma=0 / max-luma=1023 / log2-max-poc-lsb=8 / vui-timing-info / vui-hrd-info / slices=1 / opt-qp-pps / opt-ref-list-length-pps / no-multi-pass-opt-rps / scenecut-bias=0.05 / no-opt-cu-delta-qp / no-aq-motion / hdr / hdr-opt / no-dhdr10-opt / analysis-reuse-level=5 / scale-factor=0 / refine-intra=0 / refine-inter=0 / refine-mv=0 / no-limit-sao / ctu-info=0
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.2020
Matrix coefficients : BT.2020 non-constant
Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : Atmos / TrueHD
Codec ID : A_TRUEHD
Bit rate mode : Variable
Maximum bit rate : 8 466 Kbps
Channel(s) : Object Based / 8 channels
Channel positions : Object Based / Front: L C R, Side: L R, Back: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : / 48.0 KHz
Frame rate : 1 200.000 fps (40 spf)
Compression mode : Lossless
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Audio #2
ID : 3
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 1h 48mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Frame rate : 31.250 fps (1536 spf)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 495 MiB (3%)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
By the way, my impression of the other two 4k files vs my 1080p versions on a 50" screen from 12 feet away… 4k is a waste of time.
Cheers,
Robert