From 3600e704c48e58cf82cb81207fff89b6dbdd2f99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cameron Gutman Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 22:46:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Avoid Amlogic HEVC decoders until the latency issue is understood --- .../java/com/limelight/binding/video/MediaCodecHelper.java | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/limelight/binding/video/MediaCodecHelper.java b/app/src/main/java/com/limelight/binding/video/MediaCodecHelper.java index ca859b38..53dd5182 100644 --- a/app/src/main/java/com/limelight/binding/video/MediaCodecHelper.java +++ b/app/src/main/java/com/limelight/binding/video/MediaCodecHelper.java @@ -165,7 +165,12 @@ public class MediaCodecHelper { // since GFE added support for maxNumReferenceFrames, we'll just enable all Amlogic SoCs // running Android 9 or later. HEVC is much lower latency than H.264 on Sabrina (S905X2). if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.P) { - whitelistedHevcDecoders.add("omx.amlogic"); + // This broke at some point and now latency is like 10 frames and completely unplayable. + //whitelistedHevcDecoders.add("omx.amlogic"); + + // It looks like the OMX.amlogic.hevc.decoder.awesome2 in the ADT-3/Google TV Chromecast + // doesn't suffer from the latency problem that the ADT-2 has with OMX.amlogic.hevc.decoder.awesome + whitelistedHevcDecoders.add("OMX.amlogic.hevc.decoder.awesome2"); } // These theoretically have good HEVC decoding capabilities (potentially better than