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jssilva
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 Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 10:35 am Post subject: [SOLVED] kodi just plays the first frame of a video |
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Hello,
This is one of the two last problems I have to solve to complete my migration from Manjaro-openrc (now Artix). In fact, it has worked already, I wonder if it was an update.
So, kodi works if I boot my Manjaro partition on the same laptop. Vlc and kaffeine play those videos on gentoo. Kodi just presents the first frame and then I only see the time line advancing but the picture is frozen. The CPU is at 80%.
I suspect it could be related to the USE system-ffmpeg which I'm not able to unmask, even with package.use.force.
My emerges:
| Code: | [ebuild R ] media-tv/kodi-17.4-r1::gentoo USE="X alsa bluetooth bluray css dbus dvd java lcms nonfree opengl pulseaudio sftp (system-ffmpeg) udev udisks upower vaapi vdpau xslt -airplay -caps -cec -debug -gles -libressl -libusb -lirc -mysql -nfs -samba -systemd {-test} -upnp -webserver -zeroconf" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"
[ebuild R ] media-libs/mesa-17.2.3::gentoo USE="classic dri3 egl gallium gbm llvm nptl vaapi vdpau -bindist -d3d9 -debug -gles1 -gles2 -opencl -openmax -osmesa -pax_kernel -pic (-selinux) -unwind -valgrind -vulkan -wayland -xa -xvmc" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" VIDEO_CARDS="i915 intel radeon (-freedreno) -i965 -imx -nouveau -r100 -r200 -r300 -r600 -radeonsi (-vc4) (-vivante) -vmware" |
And excerpts of kodi debug log:
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10:55:22.813 T:140537681394048 DEBUG: OnPlayMedia /home/user/data/Temp/All Summer in a Day.mp4
10:55:22.820 T:140537358857984 DEBUG: GetMovieId (/home/user/data/Temp/All Summer in a Day.mp4), query = select idMovie from movie where idFile=123
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10:55:22.822 T:140537681394048 DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: matched 0 rules with players
10:55:22.822 T:140537681394048 DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: adding videodefaultplayer (VideoPlayer)
10:55:22.822 T:140537681394048 DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: for video=1, audio=0
10:55:22.822 T:140537681394048 DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: for video=1, audio=1
10:55:22.822 T:140537681394048 DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: added 1 players
10:55:22.823 T:140537681394048 DEBUG: Radio UECP (RDS) Processor - new CDVDRadioRDSData
10:55:22.823 T:140537681394048 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: /home/user/data/Temp/All Summer in a Day.mp4
10:55:22.823 T:140537681394048 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
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10:55:22.844 T:140536445261568 DEBUG: Open - probing detected format [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2]
10:55:22.844 T:140536445261568 DEBUG: ffmpeg[7FD130E5D700]: [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2] type:'ftyp' parent:'root' sz: 32 8 133502025
... long list of ffmpeg messages...
10:55:22.849 T:140536445261568 DEBUG: ffmpeg[7FD130E5D700]: [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2] count=1, duration=0
10:55:22.849 T:140536445261568 DEBUG: ffmpeg[7FD130E5D700]: [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2] count=1, duration=6006
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There are only some unrelated ERROR messages, mostly about unfound station icons. So, no clue.
It's very frustrating to be forced to boot Manjaro every day at lunch time just to watch my recorded news. Can somebody help, please?
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fedeliallalinea
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| Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:23 am Post subject: Re: kodi just plays the first frame of a video |
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| jssilva wrote: | | I suspect it could be related to the USE system-ffmpeg which I'm not able to unmask, even with package.use.force. |
You are in unstable system? if yes probably your suspect are correct, see here
As workaround you can mask ffmpeg-3.4 and rebuild version 3.3.4
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The Main Man
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| Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Same happened to me when I upgraded ffmpeg to 3.4, downgrading ffmpeg to 3.3.4 solved the problem.
btw I'm not using VDPAU, it's something else in the ffmpeg 3.4 that triggers this problem (or something in Kodi related to ffmpeg, other players are working fine) |
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jssilva
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| Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:57 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] kodi just plays the first frame of a video |
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Thank you both for replying. It's working!
@fedeliallalinea: You were right, it was the system-ffmpeg flag.
So, portage was not accepting my package.use.force because I was not placing it as a file inside the profile sub-folder. I also masked -vdpau at the advice of @kajzer just above and tested. It then accepted -system-ffmpeg, compiled and success!
@kajzer: If I had not succeeded, I would have tried the downgrade. Anyway, I disabled vdpau which I don't really know why I unmasked because my laptop doesn't have nvidia, it's a muxed intel+amd (macbook pro 8.2)
Thank you again, I'm marking this as solved.
Now, to finalize my system, I just have to discover why it doesn't mount cifs shares:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1070712.html |
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jssilva
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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Late news:
It works but kodi puts all the 8 cpu cores at 80%, just doing nothing, in the main menu. This makes a lot of fan noise which I don't like and is not the same behavior as I had in Manjaro-openrc but I can't afford wasting more time with this.
My videos and TV recordings reside on a home NAS server, which is also my tvheadend recorder. So, now that I solved the cifs shares access, I guess I'll have to live with vlc player and forget kodi.
EDIT: Forget what I just said!
This might look as a reality show but it's not. Just a person looking for improvement.
I discovered that my GPU, one of them, the one I use, is a i965 instead of i915. So, made the adjustments in make.conf, fiddled with other USE flags, namely vaapi, and kodi is now running quietly as it should.
If someone needs to know my USE flags setting, please ask. |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Readers sometimes find value in these threads long after the original poster has lost interest. If you think your settings are important to the solution, it is better to volunteer them with your initial success report than to wait for someone to ask for them. |
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jssilva
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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All right,
But please do not forget my machine is peculiar, it's a macbook pro 8.2 and has 2 GPU's switched by a hardware mux (not optimus like); one is intel i965 (I thought it was i915, but it uses the driver with this name), and one radeon. You can look the characteristics here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro
So, in make.conf:
| Code: | | VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965 radeon" |
Then, kodi must not use the system ffmpeg because it seems the api is buggy, so I was advised above:
| Code: | # cat /etc/portage/profile/package.use.force
media-tv/kodi -system-ffmpeg |
Check that this masking is really working, otherwise try other ways to mask it, see posts above.
Finally, this is working for me:
| Code: | # cat /etc/portage/package.use
media-tv/kodi sftp vaapi -system-ffmpeg bluray java gles
media-video/ffmpeg-3.4 vaapi
media-libs/mesa vaapi gles2 |
Of course this assumes that you have switched to the intel GPU, and optionally have shut-off the amd GPU to save battery power and reduce heating. For that I use the kernel parameters:
| Code: | | i915.modeset=1 i915.lvds_channel_mode=2 radeon.modeset=1 elevator=noop vt.handoff=7 acpi_backlight=video" |
And activate the kernel config for vgaswitcheroo (bbswitch doesn't work, it's only for optimus), both drivers should be also activated as modules (i915 and radeon, see wikis on this):
| Code: | | CONFIG_APPLE_GMUX=m |
And finally switch to intel, turn-off amd on boot, turn it on again on shutdown to prevent shutdown hanging problems:
| Code: | #cat /etc/init.d/my-switcheroo
#!/sbin/openrc-run
# My switcheroo service
# To switch the gpu from amd to intel and switch the power off to amd at boot
description="Switch ON/OFF the discrete GPU"
depend()
{
need sysfs
}
start()
{
ebegin "Switching to Integrated GPU, shutdown Discrete"
# Turn-on both gpu's
echo ON > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
# Switch to integrated (intel) gpu
echo IGD > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
# Power-off the disabled GPU
echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
return 0
}
stop()
{
ebegin "Power ON both GPUs to avoid suspend/shutdown problems"
echo ON > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
return 0
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Don't forget to make it executable and:
| Code: | | # rc-update add my-switcheroo default |
This has become a little lengthy, hope it's useful to somebody. |
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papandreoos
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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i can say that it is also happened in archlinux.
today i upgraded ffmpeg to 3.4 and got the same behaviour.
(kodi worked great before the upgrade)
so after seeing your post i just downgrade my package (to 3.3.4 from archlinux package archive) and after restart kodi it was working again  .
thank you all! |
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xaviermiller
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Hi,
Do we have a bug open at our bugzilla?
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fedeliallalinea
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| xaviermiller wrote: | | Do we have a bug open at our bugzilla? |
No, apparently not
EDIT: I can open a bug but I don't use kodi
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jssilva
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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After carefully reading all the posts above, after my last one, I also became scared of using bundled ffmpeg in kodi. I read with special attention the bug thread 634802 referred in the post just above.
So, for the record and continuing my reality show, I downgraded ffmpeg to 3.3.4, deleted the unmask of system-ffmpeg use flag, and reinstalled kodi. It's working and using the system ffmpeg libraries.
As I said some times before, I came from canned binaries distro where this fine grain control is not possible, or at least not easy or usual. People that are using these distros probably don't even dream what they are exposed to. That's why I'm liking Gentoo more and more. |
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