Codec Type Aspect Ratio info not loading for new files

[amet]

Nothing changed in that regard, if you bring movie info does it show the information there?

Are you runing MySQL or internal database on it?

[davilla]

IEC AC3 packing enabled is normal kodi style. If disabled, then it is raw. Kodi does not have raw audio output anymore.

[davilla]

debuglog from both MrMC and Kodi please

[davilla]

Need to see the top of kodi log so I can tell exactly which version you are running.

MrMC and Kodi should not be mixing settings.

special://home/ is mapped to: /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/tv.mrmc.mrmc/files/.mrmc

kodi cannot get there.


Are you transcoding because of Toslink ?

[davilla]

" There may be another cause, but it only started doing that today when I upgraded Kodi from Isengard to Krypton"

You trying to confuse me Kind-of hard to debug when you are changing things around. Two logs, playing same thing, pick some setting for audio. Set both similar. One log from kodi, the other from MrMC.

MrMC and Kodi should give identical results using IEC audio packing. The code is the same. There are some slight differences but nothing that will alter IEC packing.

The big difference between your setup and most everyone that has posted anything is forcing two channel to get AC3 transcode. As I don't play have to toslink games, I don't think it has been extensively tested.

Black screens, strange setting and such sounds like storage issues. Like your firetv2 is running out of flash storage.


Your MrMC is using libDSM for SMB, does SMB work with that setting off ?

[davilla]

I still don't know why I get the "first time loading" bar after Kodi, etc. and the preference panes acting up until I clear the cache, but I believe I've discovered why IEC packing isn't working.

The IEC packing button is set/wired BACKWARDS in MrMC. In other words, when the button is lit, it's outputting a RAW signal (noise at TV through HDMI on a 5.1 soundtrack), but when it's not-lit it's outputting a packed signal (stereo at TV on a 5.1 soundtrack). I assume the GUI button is simply set to the wrong boolean value (i.e. lit should be ON or IEC packed and instead it's the other way around).

Not a chance Log shows

NOTICE: CAESinkAUDIOTRACK::Initializing with: m_encoding: 2, m_sampleRate: 48000 format: AE_FMT_RAW (AE) method: IEC (PT) stream-type: STREAM_TYPE_AC3 min_buffer_size: 32768 m_frames: 6144 m_frameSize: 1 channels: 2

and the only way that would show if a CAEBitstreamPacker was created.

CAEEncoderFFmpeg::Initialize - AC3 encoder ready

ac3 transcode.

Of course I have no clue how audio was setup. Too many changes going on to follow.

[davilla]

Isengard has totally different audio handling from Krypton. Passthrough was in-fact faked through as two channel PCM. That is RAW (PT) in MrMC.

In Krypton, that mode was removed, much to the annoyances of many users.

[davilla]

It's not backwards, trust me. I've spent weeks in the audio sinks and was the person who designed it in the 1st place many years ago.

The presence of noise means nothing regarding the state of IEC packing. It is amp/hdtv dependent. Some have it with IEC packing on, some do not. That's why there is a setting to switch it. Just leave it off and move on

There's something going on with metadata. Some have the issue, some do not. We cannot reproduce or figure out the reason yet. On the bug hunt list.

[davilla]

Kodi 17 uses libsmbclient v3.6.12 which carries a GPLv3 license. MrMC will never use any code that is GPLv3 so we use the last version of Samba that is GPLv2 (3.0.37). This version does have issues connecting to newer Windows/OSX servers because it uses a newer protocol. Sometimes forcing SMB v1 in settings->services->SMB Client helps.

LibDSM is new, created by the VLC devs and designed to replace the need for libsmbclient in providing smb client access. It carries a LGPLv2.1 license which is compatible with ours. Our LibDSM implementation is headed for a refactor. Generally it works but there are corner cases were it has issues.