kodi-rpi black screen for h265

[Rapty]

Hello darksky,
Again thanks for the output ! To bad then...

Hello graysky,
Yes indeed, this is why I tried to rebuild kodi-rpi with a newer version without success as suggest by darksky and people frommake_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, ' ', 'https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/7228', '', ' class="postlink"')

On my side I have no log at all explaining what is going wrong but on the raspberrypi forum (link above) someone manage to have some.

For the video, it's specific to HEVC (H.265) codec, all other are working as usual.

System up to date this morning, issue still present.

[darksky]

I installed kodi-rpi with an up to date system and I am also getting the black screen with audio only. There is noting in the kodi log that presents an issue and not in the position to ssh to see if dmesg or journalctl shows any thing. h264 video plays just fine.

Looks to me kodi-rpi is fooled to thinking all is ok. See pic...
make_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, '
', 'https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jAw68BANrP81TxObdRdSC5qiL24FcrPH/view?usp=sharing', '', ' class="postlink"')

[ray@rpi ~]$ uname -a
Linux rpi 6.18.10-1-rpi #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 12 20:32:35 UTC 2026 aarch64 GNU/Linux

2026-02-13 08:17:57.450 T:6827 info <general>: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: /home/ray/Downloads/Predator Badlands 2025/Predator Badlands 2025.mkv
2026-02-13 08:17:57.452 T:6900 info <general>: Creating InputStream
2026-02-13 08:17:57.468 T:6900 info <general>: Creating Demuxer
2026-02-13 08:17:57.481 T:6900 info <general>: Opening stream: 0 source: 256
2026-02-13 08:17:57.482 T:6900 info <general>: Creating video codec with codec id: 173
2026-02-13 08:17:57.482 T:6900 info <general>: CDVDVideoCodecDRMPRIME::Open - using decoder HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding)
2026-02-13 08:17:57.487 T:6900 info <general>: Creating video thread
2026-02-13 08:17:57.488 T:6906 info <general>: running thread: video_thread
2026-02-13 08:17:57.488 T:6900 info <general>: Opening stream: 1 source: 256
2026-02-13 08:17:57.488 T:6900 info <general>: Finding audio codec for: 86018
2026-02-13 08:17:57.491 T:6900 info <general>: CDVDAudioCodecFFmpeg::Open() Successful opened audio decoder aac
2026-02-13 08:17:57.491 T:6900 info <general>: OpenStream: Allowing max Out-Of-Sync Value of 50 ms
2026-02-13 08:17:57.491 T:6900 info <general>: Creating audio thread
2026-02-13 08:17:57.492 T:6907 info <general>: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process()
2026-02-13 08:17:57.492 T:6900 info <general>: Opening stream: 3 source: 256
2026-02-13 08:17:57.492 T:6900 info <general>: CDVDSubtitlesLibass: Using libass version 1704000
2026-02-13 08:17:57.492 T:6900 info <general>: CDVDSubtitlesLibass: Creating ***** library structure
2026-02-13 08:17:57.492 T:6900 info <general>: CDVDSubtitlesLibass: Initializing ***** Renderer
2026-02-13 08:17:57.492 T:6900 info <general>: CDVDSubtitlesLibass: Initializing ***** library font settings
2026-02-13 08:17:57.550 T:6900 info <general>: CDVDSubtitlesLibass: Creating new ***** track
2026-02-13 08:17:57.554 T:6907 info <general>: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86018, channels: 6, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through)
2026-02-13 08:17:57.594 T:6850 info <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink

[darksky]

I built linux-rpi 6.18.7-1 and tested it and the x265 files play perfectly.

@Rapty if you want to test it also here is the link. I did provide the PKGBUILD also. Just install with sudo pacman -U *.xz.
make_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, '
', 'https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hsozwYOftVY0ye7DW_JG3sGCoTOp7uoT/view?usp=sharing', '', ' class="postlink"')

[graysky]

Is this on RPi4 or 5?

[darksky]

rpi4. I have not seen anyone complain on the pi5. My pi5 died so can not test on it.

Side note:

Interesting I removed kodi-rpi packages and installed kodi-rpi-git and linux-rpi 6.18.10-1 packages and x265 video played just fine.

[acidicX]

I've got the same issue since a few days on my rpi5. h264 works, h265 only sound and black screen.

kernel

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Linux ... 6.18.10-1-rpi-16k #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 12 20:45:25 UTC 2026 aarch64 GNU/Linux
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dmesg has a lot of those entries:

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rpi-hevc-dec 1000800000.codec: data_byte_offset 16 + bits 3848 (= 481 bytes) > bytesused 481
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kodi log

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2026-02-16 21:44:06.950 T:2003304 info <general>: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: ...
2026-02-16 21:44:06.950 T:2004520 info <general>: Creating InputStream
2026-02-16 21:44:06.963 T:2004520 info <general>: Creating Demuxer
2026-02-16 21:44:06.967 T:2004520 info <general>: Opening stream: 0 source: 256
2026-02-16 21:44:06.967 T:2004520 info <general>: [WHITELIST] Searching the whitelist for: width: 1920, height: 960, fps: 23.976, 3D: false
2026-02-16 21:44:06.967 T:2004520 info <general>: Display resolution ADJUST : 1920x1080 @ 60.000000 Hz (16) (weight: 0.000)
2026-02-16 21:44:07.057 T:2004520 info <general>: Creating video codec with codec id: 173
2026-02-16 21:44:07.058 T:2004520 info <general>: CDVDVideoCodecDRMPRIME::Open - using decoder HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding)
2026-02-16 21:44:07.060 T:2004520 info <general>: Creating video thread
2026-02-16 21:44:07.061 T:2004526 info <general>: running thread: video_thread
2026-02-16 21:44:07.061 T:2004520 info <general>: Opening stream: 1 source: 256
2026-02-16 21:44:07.061 T:2004520 info <general>: Finding audio codec for: 86019
2026-02-16 21:44:07.061 T:2004520 info <general>: OpenStream: Allowing max Out-Of-Sync Value of 50 ms
2026-02-16 21:44:07.061 T:2004520 info <general>: Creating audio thread
2026-02-16 21:44:07.061 T:2004527 info <general>: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process()
2026-02-16 21:44:07.061 T:2004520 info <general>: Opening stream: 2 source: 256
2026-02-16 21:44:07.061 T:2004520 info <general>: CDVDSubtitlesLibass: Using libass version 1704000
2026-02-16 21:44:07.061 T:2004520 info <general>: CDVDSubtitlesLibass: Creating ***** library structure
2026-02-16 21:44:07.061 T:2004520 info <general>: CDVDSubtitlesLibass: Initializing ***** Renderer
2026-02-16 21:44:07.061 T:2004520 info <general>: CDVDSubtitlesLibass: Initializing ***** library font settings
2026-02-16 21:44:07.086 T:2004520 info <general>: CDVDSubtitlesLibass: Creating new ***** track
2026-02-16 21:44:07.091 T:2004527 info <general>: CAEStreamParser::TrySyncAC3 - AC3 stream detected (6 channels, 48000Hz)
2026-02-16 21:44:07.091 T:2004527 info <general>: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86019, channels: 6, sample rate: 48000, pass-through)
2026-02-16 21:44:07.091 T:2003315 info <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
2026-02-16 21:44:07.091 T:2003315 info <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "hdmi:CARD=vc4hdmi0,DEV=0"
2026-02-16 21:44:07.094 T:2003315 info <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "hdmi:CARD=vc4hdmi0,DEV=0,AES0=0x06,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x00,AES3=0x02"
2026-02-16 21:44:07.504 T:2003304 info <general>: Loading skin file: VideoFullScreen.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
2026-02-16 21:44:07.506 T:2003304 info <general>: [WHITELIST] Searching the whitelist for: width: 1920, height: 960, fps: 23.976, 3D: false
2026-02-16 21:44:07.506 T:2003304 info <general>: Display resolution ADJUST : 1920x1080 @ 60.000000 Hz (16) (weight: 0.000)
2026-02-16 21:44:07.508 T:2003332 info <general>: ### Unpause Jumpback 3.0.6: onAVStarted.
2026-02-16 21:44:07.508 T:2003332 info <general>: ### Unpause Jumpback 3.0.6: Current playback time is -0.218
2026-02-16 21:44:07.508 T:2003332 info <general>: ### Unpause Jumpback 3.0.6: Checking exclusion for: '...'.
2026-02-16 21:44:07.508 T:2003332 info <general>: ### Unpause Jumpback 3.0.6: Not excluded: '...'
2026-02-16 21:44:16.434 T:2003304 info <general>: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
2026-02-16 21:44:16.434 T:2003304 info <general>: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
2026-02-16 21:44:16.439 T:2004520 info <general>: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
2026-02-16 21:44:16.439 T:2004520 info <general>: Closing stream player 1
2026-02-16 21:44:16.439 T:2004520 info <general>: Waiting for audio thread to exit
2026-02-16 21:44:16.455 T:2004527 info <general>: thread end: CVideoPlayerAudio::OnExit()
2026-02-16 21:44:16.455 T:2004520 info <general>: Closing audio device
2026-02-16 21:44:16.505 T:2003315 info <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
2026-02-16 21:44:16.505 T:2004520 info <general>: Deleting audio codec
2026-02-16 21:44:16.505 T:2004520 info <general>: Closing stream player 2
2026-02-16 21:44:16.505 T:2004520 info <general>: waiting for video thread to exit
2026-02-16 21:44:16.505 T:2004526 info <general>: thread end: video_thread
2026-02-16 21:44:16.505 T:2004520 info <general>: deleting video codec
2026-02-16 21:44:16.508 T:2004520 info <general>: Closing stream player 3
2026-02-16 21:44:16.510 T:2003304 info <general>: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
2026-02-16 21:44:16.510 T:2003304 info <general>: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
2026-02-16 21:44:16.510 T:2003304 info <general>: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
2026-02-16 21:44:16.510 T:2003304 info <general>: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
2026-02-16 21:44:16.512 T:2003319 info <general>: Deleting settings information for files ...
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