Avoid August update for Pi if using VC-1?

[darwindesign]

@jamieburchell

I read it that people with a Pi 2 were having playback issues with TV streams until the setting to only allow hardware acceleration for HVEC was unchecked. If that’s the case, upgrading to v19 would be viable for me.

I think you got confused between a few different things. Pre-Kodi v19 on OSMC there was full hardware decoding for some formats built-in and additionally an option to purchase from RPi foundation keys to unlock mpeg-2 and/or VC-1 hardware decoding. With our Kodi v19 update we are no longer using the same decoding setup as the RPi foundation and others have decided they are moving to something new. As such there is currently not the same level of hardware decoding support and the unlock keys for the two formats mentioned above no longer do anything. So in the short term this may be a partial downgrade, but in time things should improve.

As for the HEVC option this was a mistaken setting that got set during an update that turned off hardware decoding for everything but HEVC and I also believe they reverted that change back to what it was since.

If you are unsure why not just image your SD card and give the upgrade a go. If you don’t like it then just restore the image back to what it was.

[jamieburchell]

I guess they were talking about x264 in the other thread and not MPEG-2, which might still be choppy without HW decoding.

Don’t think Hyperion.NG works with Kodi v19 yet and I’d forgotten about that as an issue.

I could image and try - just been keeping an eye on developments aware that I’m running “legacy software” (albeit I finally got the setup perfect)