Pro Tip - x265 HDR10 encoding targeting DRM playback on nVidia Shield

[Blue_MiSfit]

If you happen to be encoding HEVC HDR10 content that will be used for DRM'd playback (e.g. Widevine) on the nVidia Shield, and you're using x265, do yourself a favor and disable the "info" SEI.

If not, you'll more than likely overflow an nVidia limit on how big the clear header can be, and have a bad time with rebuffering when switching ABR renditions.

Just a suggestion :)

@x265 folks - maybe consider adding a note to your documentation about this?

[user1085]

This is not for playback with plex or kodi right?

[Blue_MiSfit]

Right, that shouldn't matter as those platforms don't apply DRM AFAIK.

[WhatZit]

do yourself a favor and disable the "info" SEI.

Is this the one you mean?

--info, --no-info
Emit an informational SEI with the stream headers which describes the encoder version, build info, and encode parameters. This is very helpful for debugging purposes but encoding version numbers and build info could make your bitstreams diverge and interfere with regression testing.
Default enabled

Using --no-info (info=0) sure makes MediaInfo dumps boring :p

[Blue_MiSfit]

Yes, exactly.

I know, and I like to have it there for debugging, but sure enough once this gets big enough it blows up some players, including the Shield using ExoPlayer.