[TESTING] Kodi 18 (Leia) builds for Vero 2 & 4K

In the past couple of weeks I’ve been using the gmc Leia test builds more heavily, as I moved to the Vero 4k+ for daily use.

I make very heavy use of PVR - in particular tvheadend.

My experiences have been mainly positive, but I have noticed that a couple of PVR recordings fail to play correctly. The problem is also the same if I copy the RAW .ts file to the Vero4K+ and play from local storage. The video sometimes stops completely, stutters badly, or goes out of sync with the audio. Also if I try to Step Forward/Step Backward in one of the problematic recordings, then the picture completely freezes and never returns to normal.

I trimmed a 60 second snippet from a problematic recording of Emmerdale using ffmpeg - this is ~57MB in size, so I could upload it somewhere if required.

Here is a debug log from me playing this 1 minute ts file: https://paste.osmc.tv/emozoparut

This same raw ts file plays back fine on my other kodi installations:

  • Generic HTPC (VDPAU) - Kodi 17.6 - LibreELEC 8.2.5
  • RPi3 - Kodi 17.6 - LibreELEC 8.2.5
  • Android Samsung S6 Phone - Kodi 18.0