Hi,
I’m using Vero 4K+ with the latest packages, therefore the latest Kodi release. I’m using Kodi for 10+ years now. It’s amazing, plays almost anything.
However after not using AVI/DIVX for 3/4 years, I tried to play something old, but it is unable to play it. When I try to play this old show, it flashes up black screen, then it pretends it’s playing but I gone back to menu. Then displays the loading circles, and doesn’t play it at all, the loading goes on forever.
It looks like it’s playing in the background, but if I just go to the 4 arrows option to return to the play from the menu (
), it returns me to the player which seemingly playing the video, but there’s no sound, nor video.
I can seemingly use fast forward, or just skip forward. It’s also showing it’s caching the video as expected (the grey line increases…).
Everything else in eg. HEVC/MPEG/MKV/MP4 works fine, this is the only thing doesn’t seem to work. I can play these files fine via (mini)DLNA on my LG TV, the files are perfect.
I tried the same file on a vanilla Kodi installed on my Windows PC, it works all fine there.
I remember when I had Raspberry Pi, I had to do something extra to play these kind of videos, I imagine some kind of licence for this codec. Is this relevant on Vero 4K+?
Mediainfo output of one of the files of this show:
$ mediainfo myshow.avi
General
Complete name : myshow.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 347 MiB
Duration : 46 min 22 s
Overall bit rate : 1 046 kb/s
Writing library : VirtualDub build 13870/release
Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format settings : BVOP
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : DIVX
Codec ID/Info : Project Mayo
Codec ID/Hint : DivX 4
Duration : 46 min 22 s
Bit rate : 908 kb/s
Width : 512 pixels
Height : 384 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.193
Stream size : 301 MiB (87%)
Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Format settings : Joint stereo / MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 46 min 22 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 42.5 MiB (12%)
Alignment : Split across interleaves
Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms
Debug log (sanitised, let me know if you need certain lines of the original): https://paste.osmc.tv/ocojebufak.vala
I took a note of the last line before I enabled the debug logging and tried to play this show. It was this:
2022-01-01 18:13:02.278 T:2715 INFO <general>: JSONRPC Server: New connection added
What can I do to make these work on Vero 4K+ too?
Thank you, Roland