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gb160
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I agree with the vast majority of what you've said mate, if I had to choose between the 2 it'd be the veto 4K+...but the fact it'll likely never support 4K Netflix is it's Achilles heel imo.
I originally bought the fire stick 4K for my bedroom, I only wanted it for the better x265 support, otherwise I'd have bought the normal fire stick {the tv in my bedroom isn't even 4K)...but was blown away with how well it performs (considering it's under half the price of the 4K+).
I'm in the UK also , and suffer the h264 1080i interlacing issue, as I use an old enigma2 box for freesat channels...this other app u mention, does it definitely solve the issue? How much is the app?
Vero 4k+ is the better device.
Fire stick 4k wins the bang for your buck award.
IMO.
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AaronS
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How much time takes running of a TV channel in Kodi since it was switched on?
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I found an important drawback in Fire TV Stick 4K -- it has no hardware decoding support for VC1 codec, and it is not speedy enough to decode it in software. This means that many or actually most of the Bu-ray rip ISOs will not play. In comparison both Fire TV 2 and Fire TV 3 (pendant) can hardware decode VC1 with SPMC, MrMC and the latest Kodi Leia 18.1. This make it a no-go with Kodi for me. I am keeping my Fire TV 3 pendants as they are the only Amazon hardware that does 4K, HDR, plays Blu-rays and has decent deinterlacing for mpeg2 live TV streams from my HDHomerun.
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has someone any advancedsetting.xml file to improve de buffer in my fire tv stick 4k? It need to be prepared for 1,5 GB ram. Thanky you.
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boood
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Installed kodi 18.1 the latest netflix plugin: plugin.video.netflix-0.14.0.beta20.4K. In kodi, I need to set automatic refresh switching on: always or after starting ...... for the code to switch refresh both in the disk and in the netflix plugins. From what I remember in 18.0 I had it turned off and the amzon stick 4k changed the refresh rate. I have 4k, 1080p, 540p videos in plugin.video.netflix-0.14.0.beta20.4K. After starting the 540p movies, movies are played at 1080p (I do not have 4k TV) but there are micro crops. In contrast, films marked 1080p, 4k in netflix are playing smoothly? Maybe the plug showing those in 540p suggests that they are coded differently?
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boood
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Unfortunately, on plugin.video.netflix-0.14.0.beta21 some movies, series whether they are in 1080p, 540p, 4k are not played smoothly. All on my tv1080p are displayed in 1080p. I will note that cropping occurs regardless of the video bitrate.
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2019-02-23, 22:42
(This post was last modified: 2019-02-23, 22:44 by k1lerbee.)
I stumbled on some post complaining about audio out of sync issues?
does it struggle to keep audio in sync with videos? I plan to get an amazon fireTV 4K and will mostly play 4k HDR hvec and 1080p hvec movies and videos... are there audio sync issues playing these types of videos?