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Hi
I have a weird problem that only effects my KODI install on the Shield TV. (KODI 17 Git:20170205-Ocbe762)
My other installs on several raspberry pi´s and windows pc´s don’t have this behavior
I have a TvHeadend server running. When I start watching any TV channel Kodi uses this setup:

Video decoder amc-h264 (HW)
Pixel format Surface
Deinterlace method hardware

When switching the channel, doesn’t matter to what kind of Channel (HD SD 720p) it changes to

Video decoder ff-h264 (SW)
Pixel format yuv420p
Deinterlace method yadif=1:-1:1

And then the playback is choppy.
Next channel uses again Video decoder amc-h264 (HW) - next channel uses again Video decoder ff-h264 (SW)…and so on. It has nothing to do with the channel itself. For example when I start with channel 1 (Video decoder amc-h264 (HW)) and then to channel 2 (Video decoder ff-h264 (SW)) then to 3 (Video decoder amc-h264 (HW)) and back to 1 (Video decoder ff-h264 (SW))

It always changes between the two decoding settings

My Kodi setting are:
Player settings, Video
Adjust display refresh rate On start Stop
Render method Auto detect (cannot change this)
This is my Video setting: enable HQ scalers 100%
Allow hardware acceleration Mediacodec Surface on
Allow hardware acceleration Mediacodec off
System setting:
Resolution 1920*1080p
Refrech rate 50.00

Logfile: http://paste.ubuntu.com/23942936/

Any help how I can make sure that the HW decoding is always used is much appreciated.
Thanks

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I have been using MPC-HC as an external player with Kodi for some time. But for some reason it stopped working.
In the logfile it says "no such player".

Code:
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: Starting Kodi (17.0 Git:20170201-a10c504). Platform: Windows NT x86 32-bit
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: Using Release Kodi x32 build
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: Kodi compiled Feb  1 2017 by MSVC 190024210 for Windows NT x86 32-bit version 6.3 (0x06030000)
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: Running on ASUS All Series with Windows 7 SP1, kernel: Windows NT x86 64-bit version 6.1
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: FFmpeg version/source: ffmpeg-3.1-kodi
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: Host CPU: Unknown, 8 cores available
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: Desktop Resolution: 1920x1200 32Bit at 59Hz
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: Running with administrator rights
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: Aero is enabled
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: special://xbmcbinaddons/ is mapped to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi/addons
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\cache
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: special://logpath/ is mapped to: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\
20:40:58.285 T:3324  NOTICE: The executable running is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\kodi.exe
20:40:58.287 T:3324  NOTICE: Local hostname: %HOSTNAME%
20:40:58.287 T:3324  NOTICE: Log File is located: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\/kodi.log
20:40:58.287 T:3324  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
20:40:58.289 T:3324  NOTICE: load settings...
20:40:58.294 T:3324 WARNING: CSettingString: unknown options filler "timezonecountries" of "locale.timezonecountry"
20:40:58.294 T:3324 WARNING: CSettingString: unknown options filler "timezones" of "locale.timezone"
20:40:58.298 T:3324  NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml)
20:40:58.298 T:3324  NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://masterprofile/advancedsettings.xml)
20:40:58.298 T:3324  NOTICE: Default Video Player: VideoPlayer
20:40:58.298 T:3324  NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer
20:40:58.298 T:3324  NOTICE: Enabled debug logging due to GUI setting (2)
20:40:58.298 T:3324  NOTICE: Log level changed to "LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG_FREEMEM"
20:40:58.298 T:3324  NOTICE: CMediaSourceSettings: loading media sources from special://masterprofile/sources.xml
20:40:58.299 T:3324  NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/playercorefactory.xml.
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerCoreConfig::<ctor>: created player VideoPlayer
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerCoreConfig::<ctor>: created player PAPlayer
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: system rules
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: mms/udp
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: lastfm/shout
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: rtmp
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: rtsp
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: streams
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: aacp/sdp
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: mp2
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: dvd
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: dvdimage
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: sdp/asf
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: nsv
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: radio
20:40:58.299 T:3324  NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration
20:40:58.299 T:3324  NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://profile/playercorefactory.xml.
20:40:58.299 T:3324 WARNING: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayer(MPC-HC): no such player: MPC-HC
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerCoreConfig::<ctor>: created player MPC-HC
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: un-named
20:40:58.299 T:3324   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::Initialize: creating rule: all
20:40:58.299 T:3324  NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration

Taking a quick look at the code, it seems that either m_vecPlayerConfigs is empty or the check StringUtils::EqualsNoCase(m_vecPlayerConfigs[i]->GetName(), strRealCoreName) does not match:
PHP Code:
int CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayerIndex(const std::stringstrCoreName) const
{
  
CSingleLock lock(m_section);
  if (!
strCoreName.empty())
  {
    
// Dereference "*default*player" aliases
    
std::string strRealCoreName;
    if (
StringUtils::EqualsNoCase(strCoreName"audiodefaultplayer"))
      
strRealCoreName g_advancedSettings.m_audioDefaultPlayer;
    else if (
StringUtils::EqualsNoCase(strCoreName"videodefaultplayer"))
      
strRealCoreName g_advancedSettings.m_videoDefaultPlayer;
    else
      
strRealCoreName strCoreName;

    for(
size_t i 0m_vecPlayerConfigs.size(); i++)
    {
      if (
StringUtils::EqualsNoCase(m_vecPlayerConfigs[i]->GetName(), strRealCoreName))
        return 
i;
    }
    
CLog::Log(LOGWARNING"CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayer(%s): no such player: %s"strCoreName.c_str(), strRealCoreName.c_str());
  }
  return -
1;


My playercorefactory.xml @ C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\ is kinda simple
PHP Code:
<playercorefactory>
 <
players>
   <
player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
     <
filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\MPC-HC\mpc-hc.exe</filename>
     <
args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close /monitor 2</args>
     <
hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
     <
hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
     <
warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
   </
player>
 </
players>

 <
rules action="prepend">
   <
rule name="all" filetypes="mkv|avi|mp4|m4v" player="MPC-HC" />
 </
rules>
</
playercorefactory

Any help to get my MPC with madVR back is greatly appreciated.

Edit: replaced excerpt from normal log with debug log

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