[ale] OT: Kodi fails on video.

[Boris Borisov]

Actually I'll take that back. I grab the url from kodi.log and loaded it in
VLC. Video is 1080 audio is still without narrator's voice and there is no
additional audio tracks.

Looks like they posted the video mixed without the voice. I'll not blame
the RasPI anymore :)

On Oct 3, 2016 12:09 PM, "Boris Borisov" <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the effort. That result matches mine. Obviously video is
> incompatible with PI and PI2 hardware decoders. I'll look at kodi.log file.
>
> On Oct 3, 2016 7:38 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/30/2016 05:49 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
>> > Is not available online on Smithsonian site. They have small clips
>> > there a these are playable. The issue is with video in Smithsonian
>> > add-on for Kodi. At least no don't know how to download with Kodi.
>> >
>>
>> Won't help you this time, but for lurkers ...  Generally, if you look at
>> the kodi.log file, about 12 lines from the bottom when you ask it to
>> play will be the URL to the file.  Grab that, use wget/youtube-dl
>> whatever.
>>
>> If kodi can see it, it is on the internet if it isn't coming through a
>> TV tuner.
>>
>> Ok ... just installed that plugin.
>>
>> Only see "The King's Skeleton: Richard III Revealed."
>> On my r-pi2, plays at 1080p, stutters badly. Zero audio.  1080p content
>> does this if not highly compressed.
>>
>> The link for it won't download from another client.
>>
>> Tried playing some other videos.  All the 1080 content had the same
>> issue on a r-pi v2. The 720p stuff played beautifully, but not the
>> 1080p. Looks like they encoded it with methods the r-pi can't do in HW.
>> At that resolution, if the HW decoder can't handle it, then the CPU just
>> isn't strong enough.
>>
>> Added to plugin on an intel Kodi machine (Pentium G3258) this morning.
>> It refuses to play that specific title, but all others are working -
>> both 720 and 1080 stuff. I suspect there are problems just with that
>> single file. Check back in a week and they might have fixed it?
>>
>> BTW, the Smithsonian Channel is sorta like Discovery meets Animal
>> planet.  Watched some Lions being relocated  - good for 10 min of
>> entertainment.
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