chriskeens Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Im having the issue that it won't transcode when I click the box. It just plays it using direct stream. Im using a vero which is to weak for h265 and I wan't emby to transcode it for me. It does transcode if I try to play a h265 video on a browser on my computer so I guess it's the emby for kodi plugin thats buggy. I'm having this same issue. Using 1.1.68 addon in Kodi via a Fire TV Stick... Playback mode is 'addon', play from http is enabled, force transcode is enabled. Media info on the server says codec is HEVC. however playing the file through Kodi just results in direct streaming rather than transcoding and therefore I get choppy playback. log attached. Log.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 (edited) @@chriskeens Want to give this build a try? Let me know if it works correctly. Edited January 13, 2016 by Angelblue05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriskeens Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 (edited) OK, I'll have a play later today and report back. EDIT: having tried with both force H265 and HEVC options selected as well as just HEVC on its own, playback of the file is still choppy and the server says it is still direct streaming Edited January 11, 2016 by chriskeens 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 (edited) Boo [emoji17] I forgot to add the force transcode in the direct stream area, my bad. I'll have a new build for you to test. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Edited January 11, 2016 by Angelblue05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 (edited) @@chriskeens Here you go, this one should transcode. Edited January 13, 2016 by Angelblue05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriskeens Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 reset the local database... uninstalled emby from kodi. installed the new one. Now only has the option for HEVC and not h265. Playing the same file I have been using each time and it is still stuttering and the server still says direct streaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphi Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 @@Angelblue05, Try changing lines 95 and 195 of playutils.py to: item['MediaSources'][0]['Name'].startswith(("1080P/HEVC","1080P/H265"))): 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 (edited) Thanks! I do not have anything in this format so it's difficult for me to get this right (I really should, because I need to save space! ). Edited January 13, 2016 by Angelblue05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Ok, this should work. Both h265 and hevc (as they are detected on the server) will fall under that one setting. It should transcode with the setting enabled. Thanks for your patience , let me know that it works correctly now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriskeens Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 no, its still direct streaming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 What? Then something else must be wrong. Do me a favor, enable the add-on log level set to debug (no Kodi debug), then try to play the item and post that log so I can see where it's going wrong, thanks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriskeens Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 I hope this is the right thing... kodi.logserver-log.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphi Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 (edited) @@Angelblue05, it's 720p/hevc, not 1080p like the option... Edit: Also from the logs Product: montoya = Amazon Fire TV Stick... Edited January 13, 2016 by Delphi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriskeens Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 (edited) @@Angelblue05, it's 720p/hevc, not 1080p like the option... Edit: Also from the logs Product: montoya = Amazon Fire TV Stick... Yes this is correct... it was just me being a little slow and not realising that it had to be 1080p. I have now tested a 1080p HEVC file and it transcodes as expected Can I now put in a request that we have an option to able to be force transcode 720p HEVC/H265 (or just any quality HEVC/H265)? Edited January 13, 2016 by chriskeens 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Ok, whew. There was just no way it wasn't working as expected. So 720p also stutters? I've read from others that it was working fine for them, but 1080p wasn't... Anyway, I'll add a setting to force transcode 720p/h265/hevc Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 @@chriskeens Want to give this build a try, with the new setting? Let me know if it works correctly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriskeens Posted January 15, 2016 Author Share Posted January 15, 2016 So far, so good. Both 1080p and 720p HEVC are now transcoding. Thank you very much for your work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Does it perform well too? I'm curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriskeens Posted January 15, 2016 Author Share Posted January 15, 2016 Does it perform well too? I'm curious. It seems to. Every file I have tried so far has come from the server as expected with 1080p/720p HEVC transcoding (the quality drops to 720p/SD when transcoding but I can live with that). The 1080p/720p x264 files direct stream as wanted. I can't comment on 1080p/720p x265 as I only have HEVC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnygo Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 When will this change be available in the repository? I'm using version 1.1.62 of this plugin, and kodi tells me it's up-to-date. When I donwload the zip file, and try to install it, I get a dependencies not met error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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