[Kodi 18.1 & Kodi 17.6] in myHD based on official Ubuntu version

[father.mande]

Hi,

F.Y.I.

Last version of Kodi18 (18.1) and Kodi17 (17.6) are available through new APKG (myHD and companion APKG)

Please read topics in this forum.

Philippe.

[Ekan]

Does this support full lossless 4K playback with Dolby and DTS?

[father.mande]

Hi,

Does this support full lossless 4K playback with Dolby and DTS?

I have only ONE NAS with HDMI output and NO 4k monitor .

The support depend of your NAS model
The easy way to known what sort of video is accelerated is to used : vainfo
... vainfo provide you information on acceleration if available and profile (for ex. HEVC (x265) is supported ONLY with "main" (8 bits profile) ... so all 10 bits profile can't be accelerated)
... without hardware acceleration you have few chance to run as well.
4K can be encoded in x264, x265 (HEVC) or VP8 for ex.

4k must be supported by your I.G.P. (so this also depend of model)
... xrandr can list to you the resolution supported

Last remember that media player consume memory and CPU ... so don't overload your NAS and increase memory size if needed.

Kodi18 (and 17) support pass-through for playing with an AVR Dolby and DTS (I have a small HDMI audio extractor combined to a small Dolby/DTS decoder ... so I can confirm (with correct configuration) that all works as expected.

Before installing myHD you can verify the result of previous command directly from A.D.M. and Xorg doing :

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root@AS5002TAPHIL:/volume1/.@root # source /usr/local/AppCentral/xorg/CONTROL/env.sh
root@AS5002TAPHIL:/volume1/.@root # export DISPLAY=:0
root@AS5002TAPHIL:/volume1/.@root # vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.3
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/local/AppCentral/xorg/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_39
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 0.39 (libva 1.7.2)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Bay Trail - 1.7.2
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264StereoHigh         : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
root@AS5002TAPHIL:/volume1/.@root # xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 521mm x 293mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+  50.00    59.94    59.99
   1920x1080i    60.00    50.00    59.94
   1600x1200     60.00
   1680x1050     59.88
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02
   1440x900      59.90
   1280x960      60.00
   1366x768      59.79
   1152x864      75.00
   1280x720      60.00    50.00    59.94
   1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00
   832x624       74.55
   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32    56.25
   720x576       50.00
   720x480       60.00    59.94
   640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    60.00    59.94
   720x400       70.08
root@AS5002TAPHIL:/volume1/.@root #

Philippe.

[sorakira]

Hi father,
Since you closed your own website, I can not found a way to get your kodi 18 APKG for my QNAP NAS(I konw this for ASUSTOR NAS, it worked on QNAP too.)
Last time I made a mistake and deleted the kodi without backup. I search via google but that app was really different than I download on your website.
So, I want to know how can I get kodi 18 APKG and where ?
thx you for working on these apps, it's cool.

[father.mande]

Hi sorakira,

Hi father,
Since you closed your own website, I can not found a way to get your kodi 18 APKG for my QNAP NAS(I konw this for ASUSTOR NAS, it worked on QNAP too.)
Last time I made a mistake and deleted the kodi without backup. I search via google but that app was really different than I download on your website.
So, I want to know how can I get kodi 18 APKG and where ?
thx you for working on these apps, it's cool.

I don't think it's the good place to discuss about QPKG (QNAP package)
... as I write before closing all and remove all ... , even if I have good relationship with QNAP's Taiwan guy's, ... QNAP have decide to get the hands on all QPKG development with a specific integrator supported and sponsored by QNAP and member of the QNAP support team in QNAP company.
This kind of people are unfortunately (for QNAP), also, dishonest ...
So it's not my choice ... I will continue to help people (on QNAP official forum) on QNAP BUT only on basic delivery out of any unofficial QPKG ... and never use some regional forum that encourage bad practice for increasing advertising publicity ...

So please, post in QNAP Forum and wait, sure somebody can help you or propose and alternate solution ... I am only a user (like you), I don't win anything for sharing my small experience and my small integration ... and I don't want to have any battle against QNAP no more against Asustor.

Philippe.