kodi-rpi black screen for h265

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Something else interesting is the PiOS current stable kernel branch kernel 6.12.73 plays kodi-rpi hevc perfectly also. I built this kernel to try to see if 6.18 was the cause of an intermittent system lock up I have been getting with 6.18. So far the lock up has not happened.

[ray@rpi ~]$ pacman -Qi linux-rpi
Name : linux-rpi
Version : 6.12.73-1
Description : Linux kernel and modules (RPi Foundation fork)
Architecture : aarch64
URL :make_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, ' ', 'https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux', '', ' class="postlink"')
Licenses : GPL-2.0-only
Groups : None
Provides : linux=6.12.73 KSMBD-MODULE WIREGUARD-MODULE
Depends On : coreutils firmware-raspberrypi kmod mkinitcpio>=0.7 raspberrypi-bootloader
Optional Deps : linux-firmware: firmware images needed for some devices [installed]
wireless-regdb: to set the correct wireless channels of your country [installed]
Required By : kodi-rpi
Optional For : base kodi-rpi
Conflicts With : linux linux-rpi-16k uboot-raspberrypi
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 46.85 MiB
Packager : Ray Sherwin <slick517d@gmail.com>
Build Date : Thu 19 Feb 2026 10:59:04 AM CST
Install Date : Thu 19 Feb 2026 01:09:10 PM CST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : None