Devdroid 21 Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 (edited) The Huawei Mediapad M5 series (and probably most other Huawei tablets) have no support for HW 10 bit HEVC acceleration. Can this be disabled somewhere, so that streams are transcoded to x264 instead of using directplay? I can't seem to find an option for it. Edited December 3, 2018 by Devdroid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36880 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Hi, what version of android? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devdroid 21 Posted December 7, 2018 Author Share Posted December 7, 2018 (edited) Hi, what version of android? Android 8.0 currently. An update to Pie/9.0 is on the way, but I'm not sure if they will add 10 bit support or not. I've emailed them about it, but no answer so far. It can almost playback 10bit HEVC with software decode if I use MX Player or VLC/external player, but at certain scenes or with higher bitrates, there's framedrops. I believe the same goes for most of the entire Mediapad Series: Mediapad M5. M5 lite, T5; M3, M3 lite. The SoC for the M5 is the HiSilicon Kirin 960. It will always default to direct play with blocky video/strange colors as a result, so I have to trigger transcoding manually by selecting a much lower bitrate or resolution. Edited December 7, 2018 by Devdroid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devdroid 21 Posted December 8, 2018 Author Share Posted December 8, 2018 I got around this by: 1. Installing Kodi 2. Installing Embycon 3. Embycon->Settings-> uncheck "HEVC/x265" support/force transcode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36880 Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Ok currently the app detects support for hevc but not 10-bit. We will look at adding this. Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36880 Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Hi, can you please try this version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9am2hgfcj403j8d/MediaBrowser.Mobile-googlearmv7-release.apk?dl=0 Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devdroid 21 Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 Hi, can you please try this version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9am2hgfcj403j8d/MediaBrowser.Mobile-googlearmv7-release.apk?dl=0 Thanks. Thanks! I gave it a try, but it seems that it will still direct play HEVC content, with the same result as before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36880 Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Thanks, we'll keep working at it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonfire62 0 Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 I would love this support as well! Currently on a Pixel XL with the latest Android 9 rev, and I'm getting a green screen when I try to stream HEVC content. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36880 Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 I would love this support as well! Currently on a Pixel XL with the latest Android 9 rev, and I'm getting a green screen when I try to stream HEVC content. Thanks! Does pixel XL support hevc 10-bit, do you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36880 Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Hi there, can you please try this version? https://www.dropbox.com/s/9am2hgfcj403j8d/MediaBrowser.Mobile-googlearmv7-release.apk?dl=0 Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devdroid 21 Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 (edited) Hi there, can you please try this version? https://www.dropbox.com/s/9am2hgfcj403j8d/MediaBrowser.Mobile-googlearmv7-release.apk?dl=0 Thanks. Seems to be working now! It says that the video profile isn't supported, and it's transcoding to h264 Great job. Edited December 23, 2018 by Devdroid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36880 Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Great, thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyvandreren 1 Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 (edited) Hi. New emby user after years on plex. Loving it so far!. Seems like this is still a problem on huawei mediapad m5 lite Edited June 24, 2021 by Skyvandreren edit: M5 Lite (cheaper version) :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36880 Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 9 hours ago, Skyvandreren said: Hi. New emby user after years on plex. Loving it so far!. Seems like this is still a problem on huawei mediapad m5. Hi, we'll take another look at it. Thanks for reporting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwhodges 1509 Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 How does the problem manifest itself? I can direct-play H265 main10 files on my Huawei MediaPad M5. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyvandreren 1 Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 On 6/15/2021 at 8:42 PM, pwhodges said: How does the problem manifest itself? I can direct-play H265 main10 files on my Huawei MediaPad M5. Paul It tries to load forever from the menu. Mediapad m5 lite. Not to big of a problem. I can force it to trancode by choosing a lower quality. Thanks for looking into it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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