Disney+ 0.13.0 problem with playing H265

[sanoa-a]

After actualization Disney+ from v0.12.7 to latest release v0.13.0 there is problem with playing of video stream H265. Video is not visible while audio play on background. Video stream with codec H264 is playing correctly.

When manually returning back to v0.12.7, H265 is playing correctly.

Recognized on H3 Allwiner, Libreelec 10.0.3

[matthuisman]

H265 was not available for L3 devices prior to v0.13.0...
So i can't see how "it used to work"

Anyway, you would just want to disable H265 in the settings as i suspect your device isn't capable of H265 playback?
Or can't handle decoding H265 widevine?

[sanoa-a]

I think problem is somewhere in the new release v0.13.0 not the HW. This release just playing sound but not the picture from H256 stream.

By usage previous release v0.12.7 everything works fine and H265 steams are playing correctly including picture.

[matthuisman]

Please provide debug log of v0.12.7 playing H265 stream

[sanoa-a]

You have right!
I look on this more deeply and it seems Disney+ streams are always H254 coded. The problem is that by v0.13.0 sometimes the stream is wrongly identified as H256 instead of H254 coded.

Folloving are logs of the same activity only version of Disney+ plugin is different:

V0.12.7
V0.12.7 log
V0.12.7 picture shows offer to select streams (contain correctly H254 streams)

V0.13.0
V0.13.0 log
V0.13.0 picture shows offer to select streams (contain incorrect identified H256 streams). This video shows behaviour when stream is playing...

[matthuisman]

H265 is not the same as H264 On 0.13.0 I added the ability for h265... They are h265 as they play fine me on windows and android using hevc decoder. You also see how the h265 are lower bitrate. That's because h265 is more efficient than h264 in terms of bitrate but takes.more resources to decode. Again, your device just seems not able to handle the h265 streams for whatever reason. all you have to do is turn off h265 in the addon settings and you'll get the same h264 streams as previously.

[sanoa-a]

Ah so, somewhere I miss the information...
H265 disable in settings helps.
Thank you.

[games647]

In case others are interested. Raspberry Pi 1-3 also don't support HEVC decoding. Quote from LibreELEC.

The new video pipeline used in LibreELEC 10.x does not support enhanced HEVC software decoding. [...] (RPi4 has native HEVC hardware decoding).

https://libreelec.tv/2023/01/15/libreelec-matrix-10-0-4/

[PIBSAS]

Same Problem on Pi400, now Widevine have is package for aarch64 so no more neeed to install chromium:armhf and you can play DRM, so i try in Kodi, all the steps works, the stream came but only audio, the video is green or black. Star+ is the same, PlutoTV has H.264 stream and works. This is a problem of Kodi instead of the great addon?

[matthuisman]

Raspberry os will need to build a new Kodi package with required patches to run on 64bit arm

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On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, 11:53 am Raspberry Pi Buenos Aires, < ***@***.***> wrote: Same Problem on Pi400, now Widevine have is package for aarch64 so no more neeed to install chromium:armhf and you can play DRM, so i try in Kodi, all the steps works, the stream came but only audio, the video is green or black. Star+ is the same, PlutoTV has H.264 stream and works. This is a problem of Kodi instead of the great addon? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#334 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https:/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABPQAKPTNKMBYQM56QVFD43WZPNFLANCNFSM6AAAAAATXGYWMU> . You are receiving this because you modified the open/close state.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[PIBSAS]

Raspberry os will need to build a new Kodi package with required patches to run on 64bit arm
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On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, 11:53 am Raspberry Pi Buenos Aires, < @.> wrote: Same Problem on Pi400, now Widevine have is package for aarch64 so no more neeed to install chromium:armhf and you can play DRM, so i try in Kodi, all the steps works, the stream came but only audio, the video is green or black. Star+ is the same, PlutoTV has H.264 stream and works. This is a problem of Kodi instead of the great addon? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#334 (comment)>, or unsubscribe https:/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABPQAKPTNKMBYQM56QVFD43WZPNFLANCNFSM6AAAAAATXGYWMU . You are receiving this because you modified the open/close state.Message ID: @.>

Thanks!

[matthuisman]

actually, for Kodi I don't think they need to release a new build.
You just need to wait for a new Inputstream Adaptive to be released which includes the patches (xbmc/inputstream.adaptive#1130)
It has been merged so will be in the next IA released. Then you need someone on debian ppa to update the package there to latest

[PIBSAS]

Nice i will look the patch and where is available for let more easy acecess, thanks so much!