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2016-05-01, 10:33
(This post was last modified: 2016-05-01, 11:12 by scnafe.)
Thanks wesk05. I wasn't aware this had been mentioned.
Do you think there will be a fix or is it something we have to live with?
Edit: Just tried 23.976. Cannot read it on that either. I'm going to send it back I think, so far I haven't been impressed with the shield. I keep getting random flickering too like it's a dodgy hdmi, despite trying a few different cables, and yesterday it crashed while playing a movie and I had to unplug it.
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crazy...
Photo & Videos Android app visualizes 4K photos and Kodi doesn't anymore...
very sad...
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(2016-05-02, 16:30)gabrielefx Wrote: crazy...
Photo & Videos Android app visualizes 4K photos and Kodi doesn't anymore...
very sad...
Use
SPMC (wiki) and change the GUI scaling options (I forget the exact name of the setting).
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After a lot of testing, I found that Kodi 16.x releases don't actually display 2160p video. The UI and videos are both in 1080p. Downgrading to Kodi 15.2 seems to work fine for playing UHD video. The issue there is that Kodi is officially supported in Google Play and will auto update itself. But for now I found a temporary workaround.
I get wanting the UI to run better in 1080p, but completely breaking 4K playback is very unfortunate for the current release of Kodi. It frankly is one of the selling points of the Nvidia Shield.
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(2016-05-20, 19:39)kajex Wrote: After a lot of testing, I found that Kodi 16.x releases don't actually display 2160p video. The UI and videos are both in 1080p. Downgrading to Kodi 15.2 seems to work fine for playing UHD video. The issue there is that Kodi is officially supported in Google Play and will auto update itself. But for now I found a temporary workaround.
I get wanting the UI to run better in 1080p, but completely breaking 4K playback is very unfortunate for the current release of Kodi. It frankly is one of the selling points of the Nvidia Shield.
I assure you, Kodi v16.1 is able to output UHD videos as UHD on the Nvidia Shield TV.
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As long as Mediacodec Surface is selected.
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Hi,
I'm having the same issue as Mr-Photo. any ideas on how to resolve this ? Kodi plays my 4k files @ 1080p. I'm running Kodi 16.1 on nvidia shield tv ( android 6.0 ). I have a Samsung 4K TV and I'm connecting my nvidia shield TV to a HDCP 2.2 HDMI using a HDMI 2.0 cable.
Any thoughts ??
Thanks,
Kevin.
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2016-07-06, 09:25
(This post was last modified: 2016-07-07, 18:01 by Louike.)
I just tried the Kodi 17 alpha2 and the scaling -> resizing bug is still present.
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This is all a shame.
I was literally just about to splash out on a Shield and then stumbled across this thread.
No sign of getting 4K Kodi to work on the shield then?