Kiril St. wrote:
> Lukas G wrote:
> > I found that the memory is freed when playing via VLC player. If I use KODI, each program switch will increase the allocated GPU memory.
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> Good observation, thanks! I also confimed that behaivour! In kodi 19, tvheadend addon have option: "use http for streaming channels" .When use this option, and channel stops, vram is flushed! When is disabled, vram increase! Maybe this will help for developers to identify problem... Im not use nvidia card, but situation is exactly the same, with AMD GPU!
I also try this and it work but can't use timeshift with http and this is something that I rely on.
Flole Systems wrote:
> In kodi there used to be a warning if a non-HTSP profile was specified. If someone removed that warning I don't understand why that was done. That explains why you might think that it's supported to configure it this way.
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> Some people apparently forced a user to a streaming profile and then used that for kodi transcoding, that's what I meant with "some hack". It seemed to work to some extend but obviously not completely. There is a reason why the HTSP profile exists and why it doesn't offer transcoding (because it's not properly implementer).
I use a streaming profile with kodi for years, since early 4.2 release and it always working fine until now. I don't remember to see such warning about the non-HTSP profile under Kodi.
