raspberry pi 4 + buster - h265 possible?

[danpowpow]

before i go crazy troubleshooting an impossible situation:

according to the link below, the pi4 supports h265 decode https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1560/1473/files/Inside_Raspberry_Pi_4.pdf?2142

but when i run moonlight with -codec h265 i get: Initializing platform...done Resolving host name...done Starting RTSP handshake...done Initializing control stream...done Initializing video stream...done Initializing audio stream...done Initializing input stream...done Starting control stream...done Video format not supported Starting video stream...Video stream start failed: -1

Has anyone succeeded with moonlight embedded and pi4 / h265? cheers

[yukatan]

Same problem here. I guess the OS aren't ready to use this codec on the raspberry yet.

[discordianfish]

Trying to do the same but I don't think it's possible :(. At least platform=pi only support h264: https://github.com/irtimmer/moonlight-embedded/blob/7a32234c0b2fd7603a2fe93640209c3a5bf98495/src/video/pi.c#L54 Same applies to moonlight-pc where general rpi hw support was added, but not for h265,

And since that's the only way to do 4K streaming, it doesn't look like that's possible. Same btw seems to apply to parsec and steamlink.

[yukatan]

raspberry pi 4 has the hardware to decode h265 but software is not ready yet. it won't be ready until Q1-Q2 2020 sadly

[discordianfish]

@yukatan libelec supports h265 hw decoding on rpi though: https://libreelec.tv/2019/06/libreelec-9-2-alpha1-rpi4b/ So it seems possible, here are a few more details: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=345112

Also see the same discussion over at moonlight-qt: https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt/issues/160

[zaptrem]

Any change on this?

[zbuc]

I am experiencing this issue and willing to help implement a patch if I can figure it out.

Has anyone else made any progress on this?

[zbuc]

Is this project dead?

[KiralyCraft]

Yes this is now possible on Moonlight-Qt version 3.1.2