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RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - User 309201 - 2021-02-20
(2021-02-18, 15:36)serious96 Wrote: i'm reading that auto frame rate is important, so in this case of firestick 4k that doesn't support auto frame rate for netflix, how bad is it? is frame stuttering really noticeable?
I don't know how you expect us to know how noticeable frame rate conversion will be to you. It's entirely subjective. To me, converting 23.976Hz to 59.94Hz looks terrible; but some people can't see anything wrong. Converting 25 or 50Hz to 59.94 looks even worse to my eyes.
Bear in mind that you can use the Kodi Netflix Add-On instead of the Netflix app and that will enable native frame-rate playback (albeit with an arguably less nice UI).
What is a problem, however, is that some content on Netflix is 24.000Hz rather than 23.976Hz, and the Fire Stick can't play that correctly by any mechanism - with the output set to 23.976Hz, playing 24.000Hz material, it skips a frame about once every 40 seconds. Very few media players can handle 24.000Hz Netflix material correctly.
RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - mikikikiriki99 - 2021-02-20
I noticed recently my latest Kodi 18.9 stoped auto switching framerate? Tried restarting but didnt help?
Anyone else noticed. Worked perfectly for years..
No whitelist, auto resolution and match framerate set to ON.
RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - fritsch - 2021-02-20
Yet another amazon firmware update?
RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - sirmedia - 2021-02-20
One by one they are taking all features away
Since I got the Chromecast w/ Google TV I've used my AFTV4K very little. CCGTV works much better in my setup, Kodi, HDMI-CEC and the rest.
RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - Luke M - 2021-02-21
(2021-02-20, 13:03)mikikikiriki99 Wrote: I noticed recently my latest Kodi 18.9 stoped auto switching framerate? Tried restarting but didnt help?
Anyone else noticed. Worked perfectly for years..
No whitelist, auto resolution and match framerate set to ON.
Try adding the desired modes to the whitelist. If you can't, that would be a clue that the Fire settings aren't right.
RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - User 309201 - 2021-02-21
(2021-02-20, 13:03)mikikikiriki99 Wrote: I noticed recently my latest Kodi 18.9 stoped auto switching framerate? Tried restarting but didnt help?
Anyone else noticed. Worked perfectly for years..
Kodi v19 is still switching correctly on mine.
RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - himey - 2021-02-22
Not a huge deal but is everyone's Dolby Digital movies being converted to DD+?
Still no DTS pass through but converting to 5.1 PCM isn't bad, but would prefer a pass through option like before.
Lossless DTS MA and Dolby TrueHD converting to PCM is good.
HDR to SDR on 4K ripped movies look outstanding! The update to PlexKodiConnect that supports Matrix is working well.
RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - sirmedia - 2021-02-23
What are the latest recommended audio settings on Kodi 19?
RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - Luke M - 2021-02-24
(2021-02-23, 17:09)sirmedia Wrote: What are the latest recommended audio settings on Kodi 19?
5.1 Fixed
RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - fritsch - 2021-02-24
No they aren't :-).
If you rely on passthrough (as the FireTV 4K has broken it), choose Speakers: 2.0 (no joke) and enable AC3 and enable Dolby Transcoding while setting the Audio Device to Audiotrack (RAW).
Amazon did not send a timeline until the consider fixing what they nicely broke several months back.
RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - meccs - 2021-02-24
I asked this in the Cube thread but if I don't need passthrough, do I get 5.1 LPCM when I just set the Cube/Stick's audio to "best available" and leave everything default in Kodi except change to 5.1 channels?
RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - fritsch - 2021-02-25
Not sure why you ask a Cube question in the 4K section ... just to confuse others?
Cube and FireTV are sadly different, different Firmware, different stuff broken. Keep those two devices separate or confusion will even increase.
RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - meccs - 2021-02-26
Well I thought they are the same kind of "broken" but apparently they are not. Sorry for the confusion.
RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - crawfish - 2021-02-27
The following was posted two days ago FWIW (thread was started Dec 2020, so Amazon is following up):
https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P00007rD3mMSAS/update-6277-has-stopped-audio-passthrough-and-needs-to-be-attended-to-by-the-developers-asap
Update 6.2.7.7 has stopped audio passthrough and needs to be Attended to by the developers ASAP!
Shashank (Amazon Staff)
2 days ago
Hello Everyone,
The issue has been resolved from our developer's end. They have asked to update the device. Please update your device and check.
If the issue still persists, please contact our customer service.
Have a great day.
RE: 2018 - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K - Luke M - 2021-02-28
(2021-02-27, 23:40)crawfish Wrote: The following was posted two days ago FWIW (thread was started Dec 2020, so Amazon is following up):
https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P00007rD3mMSAS/update-6277-has-stopped-audio-passthrough-and-needs-to-be-attended-to-by-the-developers-asap
Update 6.2.7.7 has stopped audio passthrough and needs to be Attended to by the developers ASAP!
Shashank (Amazon Staff)
2 days ago
Hello Everyone,
The issue has been resolved from our developer's end. They have asked to update the device. Please update your device and check.
If the issue still persists, please contact our customer service.
Have a great day.
I wouldn't give such a post any credence. Anyway passthrough does work as far as I know. It just doesn't work with formats that aren't currently used by streaming services (TrueHD, DTS, etc). If and when Amazon starts offering an "HD audio" option with their streaming, the devices will be updated accordingly.