Trouble with 1080i HD channels

MrQuade · Post by **MrQuade** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 10:41

Using an Android Nexus 7 (2013), and I had noticed that all of the new commercial HD services (1080i h.264) result in normal audio and a black screen in WizOS using the embedded player. The SD h.264 services play fine though, as does playing the HD channels through the T4 transcoder.

I set VLC as an external player and out looks like the HD services cause a hardware decode error, and VLC falls back to software rendering (and does a terrible job at it).

Seems to be working fine on the Nexus 5 phone. The difference being that Nexus 7 has an Adreno 320 GPU and the Nexus 5 has Adreno 330.

Has anyone else noticed this with their devices as well?

raymondjpg · Post by **raymondjpg** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 16:08

MrQuade wrote:I set VLC as an external player and out looks like the HD services cause a hardware decode error, and VLC falls back to software rendering (and does a terrible job at it).

Do you have any options other than VLC? IME it is a mediocre player at best.

MrQuade · Post by **MrQuade** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 16:33

Regardless of what player I use, it will be limited to software decoding on the Nexus 7, so not really an option of i want to conserve battery life.

I have a variety of video players installed, but I really only mentioned VLC as it reported that it had fallen back to software.

MrQuade · Post by **MrQuade** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 18:59

raymondjpg wrote: Do you have any options other than VLC? IME it is a mediocre player at best.

Actually, trying some other players, it looks like some CAN play in hardware...or at least, they say they are. Very curious.

I did a little reading, and there was talk of some other Adreno 320 based hardware not being able to output 1080i video, but that is a bit different of course.

Also, the Nexus 7 never had any trouble with 1440x1080i50 content (and still doesn't).

Strange.