2018-11-26, 02:47
Yup smart youtube app is just astounding PQ.. try the 4k aquaman trailer.. looked great!
(2018-11-24, 20:13)DaMacFunkin Wrote: In fact beta 5 didn't work either on this particular HD Ready TV, the problem was I had manually edit the settings to limit the gui to 720, surely a virgin install should be set to a safe limit?How did you edit this? Reinstalling does not help on my old HD Ready TV.
(2018-11-25, 01:54)noggin Wrote: Interesting. An early UK TV 1080i25 Blu-ray release rip (H264) is a green and flashy blocky mess on the Fire TV Stick 4. A different, later release, 1080i25 H264 Blu-ray rip plays OK (In both cases the content is 25p - there is no intra-frame motion)
(2018-11-27, 09:17)rhoniel Wrote: - FireStick does not support Hardware Acceleration for certain video formats. I have noted the MPEG-2 videos in .VOB and .MPG containers (NTSC DVD rips) displayed as flashing green screen with Kodi v17.6 & SPMC v16.x. Another poster in previous page noticed similar issue with Divx-5 videos. The green flashing screen disappeared when I disabled Hardware Acceleration under Kodi. The FireStick is clearly geared towards streaming video & audio formats.
(2018-11-27, 16:04)alturismo Wrote: and may a note about europe livetv x264 1080i material, it plays fine in vlc with full hardware acceleration, so vlc sure does something different here ...My non-MBAFF H.264 1080i Blu-ray rips don't play in VLC on the Fire TV Stick 4K either. However MBAFF rips do play - though without decent deinterlacing.
(2018-11-28, 01:40)noggin Wrote:of course h.264/AVC , sorry(2018-11-27, 16:04)alturismo Wrote: and may a note about europe livetv x264 1080i material, it plays fine in vlc with full hardware acceleration, so vlc sure does something different here ...My MBAFF Blu-ray rips don't play in VLC on the Fire TV Stick 4K either.
(And I don't think you mean x264 Live TV unless you are in Norway or Iceland - which are the only places in Europe I know of that use the Open Source x264 encoder for Live TV encoding. The codec used for 1080i HD in Europe is H.264 aka AVC - x264 is just the name of one software encoder that generates H.264/AVC - and it's not widely used for Live TV encoding )
(2018-11-28, 07:36)alturismo Wrote:(2018-11-28, 01:40)noggin Wrote:of course h.264/AVC , sorry(2018-11-27, 16:04)alturismo Wrote: and may a note about europe livetv x264 1080i material, it plays fine in vlc with full hardware acceleration, so vlc sure does something different here ...My MBAFF Blu-ray rips don't play in VLC on the Fire TV Stick 4K either.
(And I don't think you mean x264 Live TV unless you are in Norway or Iceland - which are the only places in Europe I know of that use the Open Source x264 encoder for Live TV encoding. The codec used for 1080i HD in Europe is H.264 aka AVC - x264 is just the name of one software encoder that generates H.264/AVC - and it's not widely used for Live TV encoding )