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Kodi 21.1 trouble with playinh h265 - lesterb - 2025-01-05
The remedy for this is supposedly change Settings > Player > Videos > Render Method from Auto Detect to Software but Auto Detect is the only option shown.
RE: Kodi 21.1 trouble with playinh h265 - Neo1973 - 2025-01-05
You have to remove the selection from the settings below:
Set Allow hardware acceleration to off to disable it for all formats or only deselect Use HEVC to disable it for h265 specifically.
RE: Kodi 21.1 trouble with playinh h265 - lesterb - 2025-01-07
Thanks. I didn't realise there was anything below the Render Method line. It was a problem with scrolling on my TV box. I don't have as many entries as you show but I've turned off both entries and now it seems to play without stopping and starting but it is slightly jerky.
RE: Kodi 21.1 trouble with playinh h265 - Neo1973 - 2025-01-07
Well, h265 is not trivial to decode in software. Depending on the resolution and bit rate of your video and the capabilities of your hardware stuttering can't be avoided.
RE: Kodi 21.1 trouble with playinh h265 - lesterb - 2025-01-07
Ok. Thanks for your help.
RE: Kodi 21.1 trouble with playinh h265 - Wondercool - 2025-01-16
Hi,
I have the same problem (Debian bookworm, Kodi 21.1 standalone via backports) but I don't have those menu entries at all.
i.e. In Settings -> Player -> Video I have Hardware Decoding with Autodetect greyed out and no other entries, HD scaling = 20 percent and then nothing else in the Processing section, the next Section is Stereoscopic 3D settings
I have a Pentium J5005 with Intel 605 graphics internal.
I have a feeling I need to install some non-free drivers but Debian won't do that by default of course.
Any ideas?
RE: Kodi 21.1 trouble with playinh h265 - Hitcher - 2025-01-16
Are you still in 'Standard' settings mode? Check the cog at the bottom left of the screen.
RE: Kodi 21.1 trouble with playinh h265 - Wondercool - 2025-01-16
hi, thanks for the reply.
Yes it's on Expert.
I also installed intel-gpu-tools and firmware-linux-nonfree in the last 10 min and rebooted but no go.
$ inxi -Gxx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel GeminiLake [UHD Graphics 605] vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen-9 ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3,
HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3184
Display: server: No display server data found. Headless machine?
tty: 80x24
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: Sharp LCD res: 1920x1080 dpi: 45
diag: 1256mm (49.5")
API: OpenGL Message: GL data unavailable in console. Try -G --display
$ inxi -Gxx --display
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel GeminiLake [UHD Graphics 605] vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9
ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3184
Display: server: No display server data found. Headless machine?
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: Sharp LCD res: 1920x1080 dpi: 45 diag: 1256mm (49.5")
API: OpenGL Message: No GL data found on this system.
RE: Kodi 21.1 trouble with playinh h265 - Neo1973 - 2025-01-16
Please provide a debug log to investigate further: https://kodi.wiki/view/Log_file
RE: Kodi 21.1 trouble with playinh h265 - contadino - 2025-01-16
Maybe there is an easy solution?! I had similar problems:
problem with VA-API solved
RE: Kodi 21.1 trouble with playinh h265 - Wondercool - 2025-01-16
Thank you for your help.
I am not sure what is happening. It seems CPU is acceptable now (30-40 percent). I am sorry for wasting your time.
The only thing I did was: I added the user that is executing the Kodi service (my account actually) to some permission groups:
sudo usermod -a -G cdrom,audio,render,video,plugdev,users,dialout,dip,input <user account name>
I can't think of anything else that changed.
Note that your link contadino assumes X11 is installed but I havn't installed X11.
I did create debug logs and it looks like the Intel driver is initialised.
2025-01-16 20:16:07.637 T:10210 info <general>: GL_RENDERER = Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 605 (GLK 3)
and:
2025-01-16 20:16:07.626 T:10210 debug <general>: Vaapi2 EGL interop test results: general yes, deepColor yes
2025-01-16 20:16:07.627 T:10210 debug <general>: libva info: VA-API version 1.17.0
2025-01-16 20:16:07.627 T:10210 debug <general>: libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
2025-01-16 20:16:07.627 T:10210 debug <general>: libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_17
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 debug <general>: libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 debug <general>: VAAPI - initialize version 1.17
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 debug <general>: VAAPI - driver in use: Intel iHD driver for Intel® Gen Graphics - 23.1.1 ()
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 debug <general>: VAAPI - profile VAProfileMPEG2Simple
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 debug <general>: VAAPI - profile VAProfileMPEG2Main
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 debug <general>: VAAPI - profile VAProfileH264Main
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 debug <general>: VAAPI - profile VAProfileH264High
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 debug <general>: VAAPI - profile VAProfileJPEGBaseline
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 debug <general>: VAAPI - profile VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 debug <general>: VAAPI - profile VAProfileVP8Version0_3
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 debug <general>: VAAPI - profile VAProfileHEVCMain
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 debug <general>: VAAPI - profile VAProfileHEVCMain10
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 debug <general>: VAAPI - profile VAProfileVP9Profile0
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 debug <general>: VAAPI - profile VAProfileVP9Profile2
2025-01-16 20:16:07.628 T:10210 info <general>: VAAPI::Close - closing decoder context
Not sure if this has changed. Anyway, it looks much better now.
Thank you again for your suggestions.