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RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - fritsch - 2020-01-03

Here: http://mirrors.kodi.tv/test-builds/android/arm64-v8a/kodi-20200103-e7623c62-forceraw-arm64-v8a.apk try this with the Shield plugged to the TV as you had it before. Note: This build is not suggested for everyone having the Shield connected to the AVR directly, it's simply not needed and it has no additional value.

Edit: Wait 20 minutes, the mirror needs to sync

RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - averylinden - 2020-01-04

(2020-01-01, 23:21)DaMacFunkin Wrote:
(2020-01-01, 19:11)J3FFmaster Wrote: Does anybody have a definitive settings guide on how to get Dolby Atmos working in Kodi's video player on the Shield TV Pro?

I have an LG TV + Soundbar and when using Netflix via the Shield it's perfectly fine, but when watching movies through Kodi I can't get a Dolby Atmos signal through to the Soundbar.

Any ideas?
I couldn’t get Kodi to output Atmos to my LG C9 even the TV supports Atmos on the Shield from Plex, Netflix etc, as soon as I plugged the Shield into my Denon Kodi started outputting Atmos, I think maybe Kodi doesn’t output Atmos unless your TV / Soundbar edid reports TrueHD compatible.

I don't have any problems with Kodi and Atmos (lossy or lossless) on a Shield 2019 attached directly to an LG C9 (playing local content).

RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - DaMacFunkin - 2020-01-04

(2020-01-04, 03:53)averylinden Wrote:
(2020-01-01, 23:21)DaMacFunkin Wrote:
(2020-01-01, 19:11)J3FFmaster Wrote: Does anybody have a definitive settings guide on how to get Dolby Atmos working in Kodi's video player on the Shield TV Pro?

I have an LG TV + Soundbar and when using Netflix via the Shield it's perfectly fine, but when watching movies through Kodi I can't get a Dolby Atmos signal through to the Soundbar.

Any ideas?
I couldn’t get Kodi to output Atmos to my LG C9 even the TV supports Atmos on the Shield from Plex, Netflix etc, as soon as I plugged the Shield into my Denon Kodi started outputting Atmos, I think maybe Kodi doesn’t output Atmos unless your TV / Soundbar edid reports TrueHD compatible.

I don't have any problems with Kodi and Atmos (lossy or lossless) on a Shield 2019 attached directly to an LG C9 (playing local content).

Hi, so if connected directly to the C9 and you play a movie from Kodi with TrueHD Atmos, The Dolby Atmos banner displays on the TV screen?

RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - fritsch - 2020-01-04

(2020-01-04, 09:56)DaMacFunkin Wrote:
(2020-01-04, 03:53)averylinden Wrote:
(2020-01-01, 23:21)DaMacFunkin Wrote: I couldn’t get Kodi to output Atmos to my LG C9 even the TV supports Atmos on the Shield from Plex, Netflix etc, as soon as I plugged the Shield into my Denon Kodi started outputting Atmos, I think maybe Kodi doesn’t output Atmos unless your TV / Soundbar edid reports TrueHD compatible.

I don't have any problems with Kodi and Atmos (lossy or lossless) on a Shield 2019 attached directly to an LG C9 (playing local content).
Hi, so if connected directly to the C9 and you play a movie from Kodi with TrueHD Atmos, The Dolby Atmos banner displays on the TV screen?

That's not what he said. Never the less with the build above chances are high you get it working.

RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - averylinden - 2020-01-04

(2020-01-04, 09:56)DaMacFunkin Wrote:
(2020-01-04, 03:53)averylinden Wrote:
(2020-01-01, 23:21)DaMacFunkin Wrote: I couldn’t get Kodi to output Atmos to my LG C9 even the TV supports Atmos on the Shield from Plex, Netflix etc, as soon as I plugged the Shield into my Denon Kodi started outputting Atmos, I think maybe Kodi doesn’t output Atmos unless your TV / Soundbar edid reports TrueHD compatible.

I don't have any problems with Kodi and Atmos (lossy or lossless) on a Shield 2019 attached directly to an LG C9 (playing local content).
Hi, so if connected directly to the C9 and you play a movie from Kodi with TrueHD Atmos, The Dolby Atmos banner displays on the TV screen?

Yes, I have a couple of UHD disc rips that I made. I get the HDR and Atmos banner when they play. I haven't done anything special to the config except allow passthrough of the audio formats that the C9 supports. Happy to provide any other info needed. Here is an example of one of the files.

Code:
Audio #1

ID                                       : 2

Format                                   : TrueHD

Format profile                           : TrueHD+Atmos / TrueHD

Codec ID                                 : A_TRUEHD

Duration                                 : 1 h 55 min

Bit rate mode                            : Variable

Bit rate                                 : 4 062 kb/s

Maximum bit rate                         : 7 278 kb/s

Channel(s)                               : Object Based / 8 channels

Channel positions                        : Object Based / Front: L C R, Side: L R, Back: L R, LFE

Sampling rate                            :  / 48.0 kHz

Frame rate                               : 1 200.000 FPS (40 SPF)

Compression mode                         : Lossless

Stream size                              : 3.26 GiB (8%)

Title                                    : Surround 7.1

Language                                 : English

Default                                  : Yes

Forced                                   : No

RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - fritsch - 2020-01-04

What AVR do you have connected to it? Wondering if this is properly working eARC

RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - averylinden - 2020-01-04

(2020-01-04, 18:06)fritsch Wrote: What AVR do you have connected to it? Wondering if this is properly working eARC

No AVR, direct connect to TV. Trying to figure out how to get kodi logs off the Shield. This is the first one I've owned.

edit: debug log below

debug log playing atmos file

RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - fritsch - 2020-01-04

Quote:2020-01-04 09:49:50.595 T:7920 NOTICE: CAESinkAUDIOTRACK::Initializing with: m_sampleRate: 192000 format: AE_FMT_S16LE (AE) method: IEC (PT) stream-type: STREAM_TYPE_TRUEHD min_buffer_size: 196864 m_frames: 6152 m_frameSize: 16 channels: 8
2020-01-04 09:49:50.606 T:7920 DEBUG: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - AUDIOTRACK Initialized:
2020-01-04 09:49:50.606 T:7920 DEBUG: Output Device : android
2020-01-04 09:49:50.606 T:7920 DEBUG: Sample Rate : 192000
2020-01-04 09:49:50.606 T:7920 DEBUG: Sample Format : AE_FMT_S16NE
2020-01-04 09:49:50.606 T:7920 DEBUG: Channel Count : 8
2020-01-04 09:49:50.606 T:7920 DEBUG: Channel Layout: FL, FR, FC, LFE, BL, BR, SL, SR
2020-01-04 09:49:50.606 T:7920 DEBUG: Frames : 6152
2020-01-04 09:49:50.606 T:7920 DEBUG: Frame Size : 16
2020-01-04 09:49:50.612 T:7919 DEBUG: CActiveAE::ClearDiscardedBuffers - buffer pool deleted

Nice :-) seems to work. You got a link to the Manual of the device?

RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - dr88dr88 - 2020-01-04

(2020-01-03, 17:35)fritsch Wrote: Here: http://mirrors.kodi.tv/test-builds/android/arm64-v8a/kodi-20200103-e7623c62-forceraw-arm64-v8a.apk try this with the Shield plugged to the TV as you had it before. Note: This build is not suggested for everyone having the Shield connected to the AVR directly, it's simply not needed and it has no additional value.

Edit: Wait 20 minutes, the mirror needs to sync

Hi Fritsch,

This build fixed my issues everything is works okay now.
Will this fix be included in the next release of Kodi ?

RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - fritsch - 2020-01-04

No. It has sever disadvantages as lined out. It is not a fix - but a workaround for your specific configuration & setup.

RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - Grumpyman - 2020-01-05

Confused on the settings for the shield and how to get passthrough working properly , i followed the guide on how to set up the shield for lossless audio

read that "sync playback to dislpay" needs to be checked but wHen i haveit checked i dont get the lossless audio but if i uncheck it i do , this is the same on a 2017 and 2019 shield and a denon 3500.
i am sure its another setting that i messed up.
Any ideas what else i need to check?...I always check with saving private ryan and when its checked i get DSurround and unchecked i get DTS MA

thanks

RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - fritsch - 2020-01-05

(2020-01-04, 20:26)dr88dr88 Wrote:
(2020-01-03, 17:35)fritsch Wrote: Here: http://mirrors.kodi.tv/test-builds/android/arm64-v8a/kodi-20200103-e7623c62-forceraw-arm64-v8a.apk try this with the Shield plugged to the TV as you had it before. Note: This build is not suggested for everyone having the Shield connected to the AVR directly, it's simply not needed and it has no additional value.

Edit: Wait 20 minutes, the mirror needs to sync

Hi Fritsch,

This build fixed my issues everything is works okay now.
Will this fix be included in the next release of Kodi ?

See: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/17133 - though, this for sure won't be anything for Leia

RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - peak3d - 2020-01-05

(2019-12-17, 20:51)dwalme Wrote:
(2019-12-17, 18:58)peak3d Wrote:
(2019-12-13, 13:10)UTAVATU Wrote: There is a chance, that HDR will work in YouTube

HDR YouTube is already working with the VP9 profiles. You have to enable VP9 HDR profiles in plugin.video.youtube settings.

Nvidia has already said they cannot do VP9 Profile 2 decoding which is required for YouTube HDR.

Keep in mind many videos with HDR in the title are not actually HDR (which is why they play correctly).

Iirc vp9 hdr profile 2 is working using the gles ffmpeg path, but if so, most likely only kodi 19

RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - noggin - 2020-01-06

(2020-01-05, 01:30)Grumpyman Wrote: Confused on the settings for the shield and how to get passthrough working properly , i followed the guide on how to set up the shield for lossless audio

read that "sync playback to dislpay" needs to be checked but wHen i haveit checked i dont get the lossless audio but if i uncheck it i do , this is the same on a 2017 and 2019 shield and a denon 3500.
i am sure its another setting that i messed up.
Any ideas what else i need to check?...I always check with saving private ryan and when its checked i get DSurround and unchecked i get DTS MA

thanks

'Sync Playback to Display' will always decode and output as PCM (or Dolby Digital/AC3 if transcode enabled) because it has to do resampling (which you can't do in the compressed domain) to keep audio synced at 'off speed' display rates (This option is there, for example, to allow 23.976 to be played back at 24.000 without dropped or repeated frames, but in doing so the audio has to change speed slightly - or vary) You don't get bitstream/passthrough (and thus DTS HD or Dolby True HD bitstream/passthrough output) with this option enabled.

Beware of confusing sync playback with adjust playback refresh rate (which will switch between output refresh rates based on content - rather than outputting at a fixed rate.) My understanding is that you may need your playback to output at the original refresh rate for some HD Audio bitstreaming solutions to work properly, so enabling this on Start/Stop is required. (I do it on all platforms I have, or whitelist to achieve the same result, as I always want output refresh rates that match, or are 2:2 of the original, to avoid frame drop/repeat judder such as 3:2 on 24p played at 60Hz, 10Hz judder on 50Hz content played at 60Hz, micro stutter etc.)

RE: NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019 new model) - Grumpyman - 2020-01-06

(2020-01-06, 11:38)noggin Wrote:
(2020-01-05, 01:30)Grumpyman Wrote: Confused on the settings for the shield and how to get passthrough working properly , i followed the guide on how to set up the shield for lossless audio

read that "sync playback to dislpay" needs to be checked but wHen i haveit checked i dont get the lossless audio but if i uncheck it i do , this is the same on a 2017 and 2019 shield and a denon 3500.
i am sure its another setting that i messed up.
Any ideas what else i need to check?...I always check with saving private ryan and when its checked i get DSurround and unchecked i get DTS MA

thanks

'Sync Playback to Display' will always decode and output as PCM (or Dolby Digital/AC3 if transcode enabled) because it has to do resampling (which you can't do in the compressed domain) to keep audio synced at 'off speed' display rates (This option is there, for example, to allow 23.976 to be played back at 24.000 without dropped or repeated frames, but in doing so the audio has to change speed slightly - or vary) You don't get bitstream/passthrough (and thus DTS HD or Dolby True HD bitstream/passthrough output) with this option enabled.

Beware of confusing sync playback with adjust playback refresh rate (which will switch between output refresh rates based on content - rather than outputting at a fixed rate.) My understanding is that you may need your playback to output at the original refresh rate for some HD Audio bitstreaming solutions to work properly, so enabling this on Start/Stop is required. (I do it on all platforms I have, or whitelist to achieve the same result, as I always want output refresh rates that match, or are 2:2 of the original, to avoid frame drop/repeat judder such as 3:2 on 24p played at 60Hz, 10Hz judder on 50Hz content played at 60Hz, micro stutter etc.)

thanks for the detailed explanation Smile