I have a playback problem with x265 files (see attached file) It plays on any PC but not on zidoo. Hopefully someone can help!
I know it doesn't help with your Z9S, but just for reference, it plays perfectly on a Z9X. I tried on a Z9S and yes - a kind of indescribable mess on screen. In the early days of the Z9X there was a very similar issue with certain files.
It's probably already been picked up on the forum, but an email to service@zidoo.tv wouldn't hurt. I don't know what, if any, development is still going on with the 1296 boxes but this is not an issue with x265 files - the Z9S plays x265 and HEVC files with no issues - it's just some incompatibility with that particular file, however it was encoded.
I have written numerous mails to service@zidoo.tv describing the software bug. The only response to three of the mails was: Have you installed the latest firmware, which of course I had from the beginning. My request to check the above sample on their own Z9S and confirm the bug was never answered. Very disapointing!
I downloaded this test file and tried on X9s, looked like poltergeist static. installed zdmc 19.1 and turned off external player and played fine. The resolution is 1480x1080 px 1.37 ratio, 23.976 frame rate. Have you tried repairing the header on the .mkv container maybe. The results would make sense since the X9s/Z9s share very similar SOC RT1295/1296 From Mediainfo: General Unique ID : 140413214156408005610130018160965307799 (0x69A299F3973507F957E0254FC817CD97) Complete name : A:\ZIDOO\X9S\00000.mkv Format : Matroska Format version : Version 4 File size : 62.8 MiB Duration : 4 min 10 s Overall bit rate : 2 102 kb/s Encoded date : UTC 2021-11-21 08:39:01 Writing application : mkvmerge v59.0.0 ('Shining Star') 64-bit Writing library : libebml v1.4.2 + libmatroska v1.6.4 Video ID : 1 Format : HEVC Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding Format profile : Main@L4.1@Main Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC Duration : 4 min 10 s Bit rate : 2 088 kb/s Width : 1 480 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels Display aspect ratio : 1.370 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.054 Stream size : 62.4 MiB (99%) Default : Yes Forced : No Text ID : 2 Format : PGS Muxing mode : zlib Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS Codec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs Duration : 2 min 23 s Bit rate : 42.6 kb/s Count of elements : 101 Stream size : 747 KiB (1%) Default : No Forced : No
Thank you for your answer! I have remuxed the file using mkvmerge=> no change. I confirm that the file plays using ZMDC internal player, but controlling playback (Start, stop, fast forward etc) in that case is cumbersome. Therefore I want to stick to the "external" player.
Here is info about Kodi Internal player: from kodi wikipedia Video player cores[edit] Kodi uses one multimedia video player "core" for video-playback. This video-player "core" for video-playback is an in-house developed cross-platform media player, "DVDPlayer", which was designed to play back DVD-Video movies, and this includes support native for DVD-menus, (based on the free open source libraries code libdvdcss and libdvdnav). This FFmpeg based video-player "core" today supports all widespread mainstream formats. One relatively unusual feature of this DVD-player core is the capability to on-the-fly pause and play DVD-Video movies that are stored in ISO and IMG DVD-images or DVD-Video (IFO/VOB/BUP) images (even directly from uncompressed RAR and ZIP archives), from either local harddrive storage or network-share storage.[6][10][11]
