Amlogic codec not stable

Mike

As per title, the amlogic codec is now selectable in the latest firmware. However, selecting it will cause kodi to crash everytime after kodi have streamed a video. To reproduce, go to kodi system settings -> video -> acceleration choose amcodec only. Disable the rest. Play any video from stream, stop the video and leave kodi idle for a short while. Kodi will crash after a while.

Repeat the steps with MediaCodec only, Kodi will work as normal without crash.

Anyone else getting same result as me?

Looks like native amlogic codec is not stable yet

miki35

It happened to me too.
I am testing SPMC special build from
http://www.bee-link.com/forum.ph ... &page=1#pid3802

for now works fine, I have install pulse build.

hubber63

Kodi krypton latest nightly is working fine for me

yungyaw

Yes, Kodi 16.1 crashes quite frequently when amcodec is selected.

I just installed Kodi 17 and amcodec option was removed from hardware acceleration. So HEVC video has antialiasing problem.

Read this in other forum:

Welcome to Android MediaCodec standards and goodbye AMLogic specific code
One other custom implementation is AMLogic code which is were it all started with Kodi on Android and we used this to acces certain hardware parts which Android couldn’t yet. As already mentioned Android improved a lot over the years and it now also means the custom AMLogic code can now be turned of and removed. Sadly AMLogic doesn’t follow the standard Android and releases firmware which is just a tiny bit different. This could mean that some devices might loose some capabilities as the firmware does things a bit different than we expect. This is all on the manufacturers side of these chipsets and they have to fix it. Sadly we can’t keep supporting this deviation from the standard API as we are low enough on developers already. We sure hope AMLogic will see this and start to follow the Android standard that has been set since Android 5.0 With dropping all these custom code we hope we can keep moving forward with Kodi on Android and make it much easier to maintain for the future. For Android 7 Nougat we even had a lot of help from a great guy at Google who implemented some features for us and we are looking forward on using that. This absolutely does not mean that Kodi will not work on AMLogic chipset devices anymore.

Any other solution for HEVC files bad antialiasing?

pmichael

My Kodi is also not stable. Cancel codec checkbox doesn't help.

nik1975

I have the same issue,and i try to work with kodi 17 beta.
With 17 beta,i have no crashes at all.so mayebe this has to do with kodi 16.1

brianasmith24

SPMC has become laggy and crashes too... i have the latest OTA firmware

grant2258

yes amcodec is crashing my kodi as well will just turn it off for now everything was ok until the latest update

khalid

Kodi 17 make movie slightly darker on GT1

martin101

This week a member post a modified spmc in this beelink forum. My kodi stop to crash after streaming with amlogic codec.

Try it.

martin101

I found the post : there