(2017-04-11, 03:51)wrxtasy Wrote: Android Settings > Playback Settings
(2017-04-10, 13:32)Monk4300 Wrote: Hi Guys
First post on this site as my google search for reviews on the U9 lead me here
I currently have an Nvidia shield which I watch a lot of Movie content through and IPTV 3rd party streaming through Kodi 17 Krypton, the movies including 1080 play excellently, great colours/details. However live IPTV I have struggled with from the off, especially 1080 sources, when the camera view is static the picture is excellent, as soon as the camera angle changes it pixelates briefly before focusing, and on panning shots it pixelates also i.e following a golf ball through the sky the blue background is very blocky, the ball lands and it all goes blocky then it focuses.
I am running my Shield through a Sony Bravia 4K TV, I have tried via wifi/ethernet, Kodi/SPMC, I have fiddled with every setting on the shield/TV/Kodi and nothing fixes this issue for me.
However a friend has the U9 and he does not have this issue, which i believe having read through your posts in here is a de-interlacing issue?
So essentially my question is would a U9 fix this issue for me, or is there a list of settings on my shield/TV that I can change to fix it as everyone here seems to have about 10000% more idea on this stuff than me!
Many thanks in advance for any help
@wesk05 / @wrxstasy
IPTV I have found does not stream Interlaced content like you get with OTA TV. So issues have nothing to do with deinterlacing.
That very much depends on what flavour of IPTV you are using. Some IPTV providers definitely provide 576i and 1080i interlaced streams here in the UK, though whether they are that easy to integrate into Kodi is a different matter (most are encrypted)
In my experience there are two distinct approaches taken to provding
"IPTV"
1. Unicast streaming - using MPEG DASH, HLS, HDS, Flash or similar technologies. These are aimed at PCs, Tablets and mobile phones - and are almost universally progressive. These work a bit like Netflix, or iPlayer/Hulu - you get a connection per viewer from the content delivery network, which is then negotiated uniquely for each viewing device (and requires dedicated bandwith for each viewer) This delivers content fully over 'the internet'.
2. Multicast streaming - using something like DVB-over-IP. This is aimed at TV set top boxes, and is used to deliver TV of identical quality and viewing experience to OTA, Cable or satellite. Effectively all viewers get an identical stream provided from a central node quite 'close' to them (in the UK each telephone exchange I think) This will deliver 576i, 1080i and 2160p usually - and is often excellent quality. You could argue that whilst this is using IP protocols, it isn't using 'the internet' in quite the same way, as the multicast streams are 'private' to your ISP/TV provider.
1. is often described as 'OTT' and 2. is often described as IPTV - though both deliver TV content over IP.
Of course - there are some dodgy sources of 1. too - which will take over-the-air, cable and satellite broadcasts, transcode them to a lower bitrate format (probably taking 50i or 60i and turning it into 25p or 24/30p) and make them available for viewing. The providers of these (often illegal) services probably don't care how they de-interlace... They are also the reason Kodi has such a bad reputation...