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(Thanks to hdmkv for putting together these links)
Kodi users are a demanding bunch when it comes to media players with Kodi & having as-close-to-perfect video playback capabilities as possible. All videos should play smoothly and w/o distracting artifacts such as stutters, frame skips, improper framerates, macroblocking, and audio drop-outs.
Below is a collection of a/v clips for testing, pushing media player capabilities. Not all types, but the most widely used or critical types for home theater enthusiasts. Fair use is claimed on all non-copyleft clips, as their the purpose is only for testing, technical evaluation, and documentation.
Team Kodi samples
3D Test Clips
- Full frame-packed/MVC 3D ISO (1080p/23.976)
- Full frame-packed/MVC 3D MKV (1080p/23.976)
- HSBS (side-by-side) (in MKV @ 1080p/23.976)
- HTAB (top/bottom) (in MKV @ 1080p/23.976)
HD Audio Test Clips
Note: To download, hover over link:
- If demo-world, click to go to site, then right-click thumbnail of video there & choose 'Save link as...' to download
- For rest, just click
- For DTS:X sample below, MediaInfo does not show 'X' designation after extracting segment via MKVToolNix; will need to wait for tool to be updated
- Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 (in M2TS @ 1080p/29.970) (thanks wesk05)
- Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 Channel Check (in MKV @ 1080p/29.970)
- Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (use clip #5 in 'Codecs' section below)
- Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Channel Check (in MKV @ 1080p/29.970)
- Dolby ATMOS 'Amaze' Demo (in M2TS @ 1080p/24.000)
- Dolby ATMOS '747' Audio Demo (in M2TS @ 1080p/29.970 with DD+ 5.1 secondary track) (thanks movie78)
- Dolby ATMOS 'Helicopter' Audio Demo (in M2TS @ 1080p/29.970 with DD+ 5.1 secondary track) (thanks movie78)
- DTS-HD HRA 5.1 (in MKV @ 1080p/23.976 VC-1)
- DTS-HD HRA 7.1 (in MKV @ 1080p/29.970)
- DTS-HD MA 5.1 Channel Check (in M2TS @ 1080p/23.976)
- DTS-HD MA 7.1 Speaker Phase (in MKV @ 1080p/23.976)
- DTS-HD MA 7.1 'Dredd' Audio Channel Check (in M2TS @ 1080p/23.976) (thanks looun)
- DTS:X 7.1 (in MKV @ 1080p/23.976) (thanks Bahndit)
- LPCM 5.1 (in MKV @ 1080p/23.976) (thanks wesk05)
- LPCM 7.1 (in MKV @ 1080p/23.976)
- AAC 5.1 and 7.1
- FLAC 5.1 (use clip #3 in '3D Test Clips' section above)
Codecs, Framerates and Subtitles
- H.264 1080p/23.976 (in MKV)
- H.264 1080p/24.000 (in MKV)
- H.264 1080p/59.940 (in MKV)
- H.264 1080p/60.000 (in MKV)
- VC-1 1080p/23.976 (in MKV w/TrueHD 5.1 audio)
- VC-1 1080i/29.970 (in MKV w/DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio)
- MPEG2 1080i/29.970 (in MKV w/DD5.1 audio)
- 1080i/25.000 (H.264 MKV)
- 1080p/25.000 (H.264 MKV)
- 1080i/50.000 (download & change .mxf extension to .ts)
- 1080p/50.000 (H.264 MKV)
- H.265 1080p (medium bitrate) Test #1 in ISO, and in MKV (thanks Mike for #10-11)
- H.265 1080p (medium bitrate) Test #2 in ISO, and in MKV
- 2D Forced Subtitles Sample (H.264 MKV with SRT track muxed in and tagged as 'forced')
4K (UltraHD)
Note: To download, hover over link:
- If demo-world, click to go to site, then right-click thumbnail of video there & choose 'Save link as...' to download
- For any YouTube video, use this free tool to download in original quality)
- 23.976fps (in MP4) (YouTube)
- 24fps (in MP4) (YouTube)
- 25fps (in MP4) (YouTube)
- 29.970fps, 51Mbps (hdmkv's iPhone 6S 4K clip)
- 59.940fps (in MKV)
- 60fps (in MP4) (YouTube)
- H264, up to 30fps (thanks hansolo for #7-12)
- H264, 50-60fps
- H265 8bit, up to 30fps
- H265 8bit, 50-60fps (unable to find as yet)
- H265 10bit, up to 30fps
- H265 10bit, 50-60fps
- UltraHD HDR 10bit HEVC, 24fps
- VP9 (open-source alternative to HEVC) (YouTube)
- 5K (5120x2700) (in MP4 @ 60fps) (YouTube)
- 8K (7680x4320) (in MP4 @ 29.970fps) (YouTube)
- 4K Test Patterns (in MP4 @ 30fps) (YouTube) (thanks hansolo)
Bitrate Test Clips
Media players should be able play 70Mbps or better smoothly, w/o stutters for full 1080p, and 108-128Mbps for full 4K
- Jellyfish (in H.264 and H.265 HEVC MKV) (thanks ScottAllyn01 for your site)
- Birds (in H.264 MKV or M2TS)
Resources for additional test clips and samples
- CNXSoft's samples/links
- W6RZ MPEG2 clips
- Demo World trailers (several directly linked to above)
- 4Ksamples.com (movie, sport, nature clips in 4K)
- Jacob + Katie Schwarz: We See the World in 4K (beautiful 4K nature videos) (YouTube)
- Imaging Resource 4K Samples (thanks Karnis)
- Demo UHD 3D (various H.265 & H.265 4K clips) (thanks wrxtasy)
- x265 HEVC Samples
- Evosia Studios (several beautiful 1080p to 4K films)
- libde265 (1080p to maxed-out 4K samples) (thanks Martijn)
- Timestorm Films (4K to 8K videos)
- MplayerHQ's library (many clips)
- Note:
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu
can even be added to Kodi as a video source, for easy loading, if you have a fast enough connection.
- Note:
Library samples
Ned's fake movie library
- A zipped collection of 1,000 empty movie files, with NFO files, poster, and fanart for each entry. Various movies from different years, including sequels/sets, remakes, movies named the same but unrelated, various genres, and so on. Useful for testing things like library scanning speed, library navigation, filtering, etc.