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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: When I back-up .... Coping my Entire Internal HD to an external HD
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On 2025-03-22 14:42, TJ wrote:
> On 2025-03-22 09:00, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-03-22 07:57, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:55:34 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>
>>>> On the other hand, I find that TV sets support for playing media is
>>>> terrible.
>>>
>>> Get something like a Kodi box.
>>
>> Well, the laptop I already have, and would be gathering dust 
>> otherwise. Actually, sometimes I run kodi on it.
>>
>> It is funny, some videos barely run on the laptop using VLC; however, 
>> they run fine using kodi.
>>
>> Even if I recode those videos using ffmpeg, VLC can't play them. Sound 
>> is good, video stalls.
>>
>>
>>
> Have you tried recoding with Handbrake? It has worked for me in the past.

I haven't, but most tools use the same codec libraries.

I tried these:

time ffmpeg -i Source\ x265\ .mkv \
     -map 0 -vf scale=1920:-1  -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 22 -tune fastdecode -profile:v baseline  -c:a copy -c:s copy \
     Dest\ baseline.mkv

time ffmpeg -i Source\ x265\ .mkv \
     -map 0 -vf scale=1920:-1  -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 22 -tune fastdecode -profile:v main  -c:a copy -c:s copy \
     Dest\ -\ main.mkv

time ffmpeg -i Source\ x265\ .mkv \
     -map 0 -vf scale=1920:-1  -c:v mpeg4 -vtag xvid -qscale:v 3  -c:a copy -c:s copy \
     Dest\ xvid.mkv


I have trouble when the video uses x265. x264 is fine, so I was trying to encode to x264. VLC on that laptop has trouble with those (I do the recoding in another machine that is powerful).


But if kodi can display the video, it is less effort and resources to watch the movies in kodi. It is just curious, as both vlc and kodi link the same libx265.so libraries.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.