(2017-10-11, 01:02)Earwig Wrote: Thanks, I am really going to have a look into this.
Out of interest though, How is these able to do HDR TO SDR tonemapping, when my Shield cannot ?
Developer hat on...
It seems that the NVIDIA Linux Kernel developers simply are either incompetent or lazy or lack resources and do not test properly when updating Firmware and introducing new features like Auto Resolution switching and you then end up with incorrect colorspace mapping problems.
Seriously leaving it up to end users to discover problems like those does not leave any device userbase full of confidence. And this is from a multibillion dollar multinational graphics card company not some bunch of Linux guys distributing software for free.
Apple are no better with their new Apple TV 4K either that has that device forcing everything be mapped to 4K HDR 60Hz, and for SDR content that produces disastrous results unless you like fiddling manually in settings all the time when changing source video content.
The LibreELEC and OSMC developers have direct control over the custom Linux Kernel used and also custom patch Kodi Krypton to support that custom Kernel.
Bug fixes, updates and actual proper Firmware & Kodi testing moves at a far quicker pace all done by guys who are passionate about what they produce.
As an example, just look at these three Linux testbuild development threads for LibreELEC Kodi and OSMC Kodi:
https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=166
https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=52
Now where is the equivalent, structured testing process for Android Kodi ?
I'm not trying to denigrate the Android Kodi developers here, it's just reality there are far fewer of them vs Linux Kodi
Android Kodi has to try and cover a large and varied army of Hardware setups as well. Linux based Kodi distributions are far more narrowly focussed.