(2020-12-11, 20:26)fritsch Wrote: New firmware was pushed to the device yesterdays ... Did not yet have time to thoroughly test. What's your experience? Some bugs fixed?
Version: 7.2.2.9 (PS7229/1850).
Start-Page: 6242054.1

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As always, there is no changelog. Nevertheless, a few days ago there was already information about new functions, which should be available with this update. The Fire TV Cube can now be paired with a compatible webcam. So you can then ultimately make video calls via Fire TV Cube to other devices with Alexa and a display. To use the new function, a webcam with UVC (USB Video Class) support and a resolution of min. 720p at 30 frames per second required.

If you also own a ring video doorbell and use a Fire TV (stick), you can receive a notification on your TV when someone rings the doorbell. Image transmission of the bell is also possible. The Fire TV Cube does not currently support this feature.

Likewise, the Alexa responses should now be presented a little more discreetly and no longer disturb the TV experience. Answers, for example according to the weather, are displayed as a separate small overlay window. This feature will not be available for the first generation of Fire TV and Fire TV Stick

(2020-12-30, 20:31)jrhamilt Wrote: So, just got a new Fire TV Cube for Xmas.  Trying to get it setup and working right to play 4k rips without buffering.  My receiver seems to handle the DTS+ stream okay (but it took lots of fidgeting).

1) Is there "known good" configuration set for both the Fire TV box and Kodi to use as a starting point?
2) Are there any good solutions for buffering issues?  Didn't find any in this thread...  I get a spinning buffering wheel about every 15-30 minutes...  Connected via Gigabit to the SAN that contains all of the movies...

Wasn't sure if these required a debug log or not, but thought I'd check for some basic info before diving into super-specifics.

Thanks!

(2021-01-05, 12:27)meccs Wrote:

(2020-12-30, 20:31)jrhamilt Wrote: So, just got a new Fire TV Cube for Xmas.  Trying to get it setup and working right to play 4k rips without buffering.  My receiver seems to handle the DTS+ stream okay (but it took lots of fidgeting).

1) Is there "known good" configuration set for both the Fire TV box and Kodi to use as a starting point?
2) Are there any good solutions for buffering issues?  Didn't find any in this thread...  I get a spinning buffering wheel about every 15-30 minutes...  Connected via Gigabit to the SAN that contains all of the movies...

Wasn't sure if these required a debug log or not, but thought I'd check for some basic info before diving into super-specifics.

Thanks!

Depends. Do you stream you files from a dedicated NAS or just an HDD connect to the router via USB. My guess is that it sounds like you do the latter.

(2020-10-25, 10:28)mfmfmf Wrote: I'm also seeing the vertical shift problem where the trailing edge shifts faster than the leading edge, which results in a video frame that shrinks vertically as the shifting progresses.

This problem occurs for values less than -1.00 (when shifting the video upward), and for values greater than +1.00 (when shifting the video downward)

I see the problem with all of:
- kodi-20201001-5c717b66-fritschfiretv-armeabi-v7a.apk
- kodi-20201024-08ee377c-fritschfiretv-armeabi-v7a.apk
- kodi-20201008-7a0563a7-media_import_19.0a2-Matrix-armeabi-v7a.apk

No problem on the Fire TV Stick 4K.

(2021-01-24, 16:51)fritsch Wrote: Yeah - the firmware workaround for the Cube (which by accident did not understand how to DD+ float input, which it btw. will after next update :-() was reverted. It broke multi channel output on all known devices besides nvidia Shield.

Sorry - we can't ship an amazon workaround, that works by accident and additionally that breaks other functionality. 16 bit multi channel output shall work, if amazon makes DD+ from it, kodi cannot workaround that, especially not if it breaks other devices.

So with v19 nightlies, what do you get? DD+ for multi channel? If that's the case, another thankyou towards amazon who think it's a good idea to reencode output data ...