Control: reassign -1 kodi 2:20.0~alpha2+dfsg1-1 On 2022-08-15 21:49:19 +0000, Rogo wrote: > Control: reassign -1 ffmpeg 7:5.1-2 > Control: affects -1 kodi > > Hi, > > since kodi in Debian is built against ffmpeg 5.1, TV playback is broken. > More specifically, kodi can no longer play video transport streams. > > One can reproduce this by playing a video from a ts file in kodi, e.g.: > $ ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc -t 10 -c:v h264 test.ts > $ kodi test.ts > > This worked fine with kodi 19.4, which was built against ffmpeg 4.4, > but no longer shows the video in kodi 20, which is built against ffmpeg 5.1. > > The problem is that kodi tries to manually extract transport stream extradata > using parser->split in CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::ParsePacket [1], but all the split > functions were removed in ffmpeg 5.0 by [2]: > commit e5af9203098a889f36b759652615046254d45102 > Author: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinha...@gmail.com> > Date: Sun Mar 7 00:28:14 2021 +0100 > > avcodec: Move all AVCodecParser.split functions to remove_extradata_bsf > > The remove_extradata bsf is the only user of these functions. > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinha...@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com> > > Reverting this commit on top of ffmpeg 5.1 (and including startcode.h in > files then using avpriv_find_start_code) restores TV playback in kodi. > > As the example of kodi shows, these split functions are generally useful > for API users outside of ffmpeg itself. > Thus please restore them, e.g. by reverting this commit.
If you want ffmpeg commits reverted, this has to happen upstream. Until that happens, this bug remains a "kodi needs to catch up with ffmpeg 5" bug. Cheers > > Thanks, > Rogo > > 1: > https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/kodi-media-center/kodi/-/blob/1690349c890bdf941216218dd6b4f7b9c4204dc0/xbmc/cores/VideoPlayer/DVDDemuxers/DVDDemuxFFmpeg.cpp#L2260 > 2: > https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commitdiff/e5af9203098a889f36b759652615046254d45102 > -- Sebastian Ramacher
