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Movies that won't play in Gotham - Audiomixer - 2014-08-22
Since Gotham 13.2, of my 5 terminator movies, 2 and 3 will no longer play. I get audio only and the GUI menu with the playback control bar is all that is visible.
The only difference is that they are from HD DVD sources. T-1 plays fine. Its stats are last below for comparison.
Under Frodo and the current version of plex, these files played fine.
These are as follows:
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For T-3
Media
Video Resolution 720p
Duration 1:48:58
Bitrate 5739 kbps
Width 1280
Height 528
Aspect Ratio 2.35
Container MKV
Video Frame Rate 24p
Part
Duration 1:48:58
File Terminator 3.720p.HDDVD.x264-ESiR.mkv
Size 4.37 GB
Container MKV
Codec H264
Bitrate 5358 kbps
Bit Depth 8
CABAC 1
Chroma Subsampling 4:2:0
Color Space yuv
Duration 1:48:58
Frame Rate 23.976 fps
Frame Rate Mode cfr
Has Scaling Matrix 0
Height 528
Level 5.1
Profile high
Ref Frames 8
Scan Type progressive
Width 1280
Audio
Codec AC3
Channels 5.1
Bitrate 384 kbps
Language English
Bit Depth 16
Bitrate Mode CBR
Dialog Norm -31 dB
Duration 1:48:58
Sampling Rate 48000 Hz
Subtitles
Codec SRT
Language English
Format SRT
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For T-2
Media
Video Resolution 720p
Duration 2:33:25
Bitrate 7418 kbps
Width 1280
Height 544
Aspect Ratio 2.35
Container MKV
Video Frame Rate 24p
Part
Duration 2:33:25
File Terminator 2.720p.HDDVD.DTS.x264-ESiR.mkv
Size 7.95 GB
Container MKV
Video
Codec H264
Bitrate 5905 kbps
Language English
Bit Depth 8
CABAC 1
Chroma Subsampling 4:2:0
Color Space yuv
Duration 2:33:25
Frame Rate 23.976 fps
Frame Rate Mode cfr
Has Scaling Matrix 0
Height 544
Level 5.1
Profile high
Ref Frames 8
Scan Type progressive
Width 1280
Audio
Codec DCA
Channels 5.1
Bitrate 1509 kbps
Language English
Bit Depth 16
Bitrate Mode CBR
Duration 2:33:25
Sampling Rate 48000 Hz
Subtitles
Codec SRT
Language English
Format SRT
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T-1 plays fine:
Media
Video Resolution 720p
Duration 1:47:13
Bitrate 5804 kbps
Width 1280
Height 696
Aspect Ratio 1.85
Container MKV
Video Frame Rate 24p
Part
Duration 1:47:13
File The.Terminator.1984.720p.BluRay.x264-ESiR.mkv
Size 4.35 GB
Container MKV
Video
Codec H264
Bitrate 5160 kbps
Language English
Bit Depth 8
CABAC 1
Chroma Subsampling 4:2:0
Color Space yuv
Duration 1:47:13
Frame Rate 23.976 fps
Frame Rate Mode cfr
Has Scaling Matrix 0
Height 696
Level 5.1
Profile high
Ref Frames 9
Scan Type progressive
Width 1280
Audio
Codec AC3
Channels 5.1
Bitrate 640 kbps
Language English
Bit Depth 16
Bitrate Mode CBR
Dialog Norm -31 dB
Duration 1:47:13
Sampling Rate 48000 Hz
Subtitles
Codec ASS
Language English
Format ASS
Movies that won't play in Gotham - Memphiz - 2014-08-24
debug log (wiki)
RE: Movies that won't play in Gotham - Audiomixer - 2014-08-25
Here is the log file.
http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=276539
Funny that these are the only two files that will not play.
I did try a few things on the Videos>acceleration page. What worked is to set the decoding method to hardware accelerated and un check "allow hardware acceleration (VDADecoder)."
The log file shows error with "CDVDPlayerVideo - video decoder returned error" and "Decode - VDADecoderDecode failed, status(-12473)"
Hope this helps.
RE: Movies that won't play in Gotham - Memphiz - 2014-08-25
can you cut a 50mb sample of this file and upload to dropbox or so? Ensure that the issue is reproducable with that sample. Also it would be interesting if the same issue happens with current helix alpha or nightly builds.
RE: Movies that won't play in Gotham - Audiomixer - 2014-08-26
Btw, this issue is also reproducible on my other mini and my retina late 2013 retina MBPro. The same setting change toggling between "allow hardware acceleration (VDADecoder)" corrected it on my other machines as well.
Here is a clip on Dropbox that reproduces it on my machines. Clip.
RE: Movies that won't play in Gotham - Ned Scott - 2014-08-26
Dropbox? Mega? Google Drive?
RE: Movies that won't play in Gotham - Audiomixer - 2014-08-26
Yeah Dropbox as memphiz had asked me to upload a sample of the problematic video for him to see. Just click on "clip" to get the sample.
RE: Movies that won't play in Gotham - Audiomixer - 2014-08-30
Memphiz, did you get this file? I'd like to delete it if you had.
Movies that won't play in Gotham - Memphiz - 2014-08-30
I poked another dev to have a look at it - i think i didn't get to it yet - how long can you keep it up?
RE: Movies that won't play in Gotham - MrMC - 2014-08-30
I have it but have not had time to look into the issue.
RE: Movies that won't play in Gotham - Audiomixer - 2014-09-01
Memphiz, it's there until you say otherwise.
RE: Movies that won't play in Gotham - Audiomixer - 2014-09-28
File deleted.
RE: Movies that won't play in Gotham - Audiomixer - 2014-12-28
This problem still exists in Kodi 14.0
RE: Movies that won't play in Gotham - wrxtasy - 2014-12-29
I run problem movie files through an OSX app called MP4tools and convert em to avc / aac / m4v using the passthrough options. Subtitles can be included in the m4v container.
If you pay for a Licence you can even do mass numbers of files via batch processing.
Its fast on multicore Macs.
Highly recommended.
http://www.emmgunn.com/mp4tools/mp4toolshome.html
RE: Movies that won't play in Gotham - Audiomixer - 2014-12-30
I could do that but these files played fine in frodo and plex. Something changed with gotham and later. Not that it matters at this point since I deleted the problem HDDVD derived files in favor for Blu Ray source.