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Bug 622634 - media-tv/kodi-17.3 H.265 hardware decoding detection failure
Summary: media-tv/kodi-17.3 H.265 hardware decoding detection failure
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Craig Andrews
URL: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: PATCH
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2017-06-24 19:53 UTC by Saul Peebsen
Modified: 2017-07-11 22:01 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
Patch to fix the issue (hvec.patch,629 bytes, patch)
2017-06-24 19:56 UTC, Saul Peebsen 		Details | Diff
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Description Saul Peebsen 2017-06-24 19:53:17 UTC 
Kodi 17.3 does not detect if hardware is capable of 10-bit H.265 hardware decoding, switches to hardware decoding resulting in a black screen. (My Kodi box is capable of 8-bit H.265 hardware decoding and kodi-17.3 does it fine.)
Comment 1 Saul Peebsen 2017-06-24 19:56:05 UTC 
Created attachment 477900 [details, diff]
Patch to fix the issue

The patch is provided by Kodi developer fritsch, copied from Kodi forums.
Comment 2 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2017-06-24 21:25:47 UTC 
Thank you for the report.
can you please provide the URL to the forum for further information and proper attribution?
Comment 3 Saul Peebsen 2017-06-24 21:31:01 UTC 
Sure, here it is.
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=317137
Comment 4 Craig Andrews gentoo-dev 2017-06-25 16:49:32 UTC 
Upstream pull request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12361
Comment 5 Craig Andrews gentoo-dev 2017-07-09 02:16:46 UTC 
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/4966