Vero 4k+ freezes on video start (mp4, AVC)

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Hi there,
I’m new to the community.
I’ve been using kodi on a raspi for years.
I have one usecase that the raspi ist not capable of.
The videos I create with my Samsung Galaxy S7 (dynamic HDR on)

Last week I happily received my Verok 4k+
To my surprise the vero 4k+ freezes on starting the video files
Hoping for help

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EDIT:
More information on my setup
1080p projector (No Need for higher resolutions yet)
Denon AVR-X2400H
Capable network
Synology (NFS shares)

What I tried so far without big surprises (source: kodi samples page)
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I’d try making a .mkv out of the mp4 with mkvmerge and if that does not fix it you can try disabling hw acceleration.

Also how is the video rotated ? I think the hw accelerator does not know how to handle the rotation flag

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Hi,

what will changing the container do ?

The videos are rotated upright. Like the phone.

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Maybe nothing, maybe make your videos playable who knows but considering its a process that takes a free tool and one mouse click its worth trying

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I will try that.

I extracted some more information

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I read about “Adjust Refresh Rate?”
I will try that tot

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Failing that – please send us a link to a sample file so we can look in to this.

Sam

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Unfortunately I was not able to test anything yet

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Sugestions for more ideas are welcomed

Outstanding Tests:

  • Different rotations
  • Phone camera: HDR on/off
  • Phone camera: video stabilizer on/off
  • MKV merge
  • Enable: Adjust Refresh Rate
  • Log files ?

I added information about my setup to the first post

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If you turn off HDR as a quick test; does it work?

HDR via AVC is not something I think we have seen before.

Sam

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It should not cause a problem. We won’t send an incompatible signal.
Can you try turning off HDR on your camera as a quick test? Sorry if it was unclear on which device I was instructing you to disable HDR on.

Sam

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Hi,
sorry, currently on the road, till friday. With no acces to my new ‘toy’

Files for testing are prepared.
Next feedback hopefully on saturday

Thanks for the fast support

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No problem – keep us posted.

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My wife made it possible to test some files

Video settings Galaxy S7
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UHD (3840x2160) / HDR on/off/auto /different rotations → freeze
changed the resolution to FHD (HDR auto)
Video is playing (with stuttering at the beginning)

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HDR is not the problem.
I just learned the following

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Translated: Recording in UHD the following features will not be available: HDR, …
Too bad Samsung is not greying these options out when UHD is selected

Vero is not freezing on video start
It starts to buffer
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after a while it starts playing without showing a picture
“playback” continues over the end of the clip
The moment I press Stop on the remote → freeze
Kept it over night on the frozen screen, still frozen
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14

Played the files from an external drive
FHD without problems, need to investigate my network

UHD still the same behavior

Enabled “adjust refresh rate”
Same results

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This actually helped. Different MKV that I merged from my mp4 files play fine.
The rotation of the videos is messed up.
Is it possible to rotate mkv ? Right now I have playable files that are not watchable

Mp4 still freezes

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That might be useful info for @sam_nazarko

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Without a sample and logs, it’s not much use unfortunately.

Sam

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please tell me the paths and names of the log files you wish

sample file was provides last week.

new one <sample file>
sorry for the speed, slow upload at home

information regarding the sample file
resolution UHD / rotation upright

please come back to me if more sample files are needed

clips with different settings available

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This explains how to obtain the logs of interest.

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Https://paste.osmc.tv/hunosocuda

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did you have the chance to take a look ?