[chilman408]

This is really great news! I will try it in the evening.

Can you please post your audio settings within KODI ..thanks

here you go:

Number of channels: 2.0
Stereo upmix: checked
Maintain original volume on downmix: checked
Enable passthrough: checked
Dolby Digital (AC3) capable receiver: checked
Enable Dolby Digital (AC3) transcoding: NOT checked
Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3) capable receiver: checked
DTS capable receiver: checked
TrueHD capable receiver: checked
DTS-HD capable receiver: checked

My receiver is a Denon AVR-1713

Question about the audio settings, if my receiver is not capable of DTS- HD, does this mean kodi will down convert the stream to 2 channels stereo?

[abpostelnicu]

Can you please post your audio settings within KODI ..thanks

here you go:

Number of channels: 2.0
Stereo upmix: checked
Maintain original volume on downmix: checked
Enable passthrough: checked
Dolby Digital (AC3) capable receiver: checked
Enable Dolby Digital (AC3) transcoding: NOT checked
Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3) capable receiver: checked
DTS capable receiver: checked
TrueHD capable receiver: checked
DTS-HD capable receiver: checked

My receiver is a Denon AVR-1713

Question about the audio settings, if my receiver is not capable of DTS- HD, does this mean kodi will down convert the stream to 2 channels stereo?

it will convert to the pcm format that has the number of channels that you specified. I hope i'm not wrong.

[mahockey]

This is really great news! I will try it in the evening.

Can you please post your audio settings within KODI ..thanks

here you go:

Number of channels: 2.0
Stereo upmix: checked
Maintain original volume on downmix: checked
Enable passthrough: checked
Dolby Digital (AC3) capable receiver: checked
Enable Dolby Digital (AC3) transcoding: NOT checked
Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3) capable receiver: checked
DTS capable receiver: checked
TrueHD capable receiver: checked
DTS-HD capable receiver: checked

My receiver is a Denon AVR-1713

Why number of channels set to 2.0?

[abpostelnicu]

Can you please post your audio settings within KODI ..thanks

here you go:

Number of channels: 2.0
Stereo upmix: checked
Maintain original volume on downmix: checked
Enable passthrough: checked
Dolby Digital (AC3) capable receiver: checked
Enable Dolby Digital (AC3) transcoding: NOT checked
Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3) capable receiver: checked
DTS capable receiver: checked
TrueHD capable receiver: checked
DTS-HD capable receiver: checked

My receiver is a Denon AVR-1713

Why number of channels set to 2.0?

because i have only two speakers

[mahockey]

here you go:

Number of channels: 2.0
Stereo upmix: checked
Maintain original volume on downmix: checked
Enable passthrough: checked
Dolby Digital (AC3) capable receiver: checked
Enable Dolby Digital (AC3) transcoding: NOT checked
Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3) capable receiver: checked
DTS capable receiver: checked
TrueHD capable receiver: checked
DTS-HD capable receiver: checked

My receiver is a Denon AVR-1713

Why number of channels set to 2.0?

because i have only two speakers

LOL sorry ...so many quoted posts I was reading Hiphopopotamus post when he said he had a 7.1 system, and mistakenly took it as your post.

[abpostelnicu]

So i've got the chance to test 16 beta and everything works awesome! Besides the improvements for bitstream dts ma i think the overall performance is netter, the interface is more fluent also scrolling timeline during movie playback is quicker. I don't think it's placebo!

[Hiphopopotamus]

LOL sorry ...so many quoted posts I was reading Hiphopopotamus post when he said he had a 7.1 system, and mistakenly took it as your post.

I think you're getting lost in quotes, I never said I had a 7.1 system, I am currently on 3.1, but I never mentioned that either.

[dropzone7]

Did not have much time to test but I did get the beta loaded up last night and I am getting DTS-HD and True-HD audio passed through to my receiver.

Tested:
300 Dolby True-HD OK
Avengers DTS-MA OK
Amazing Spiderman DTS-MA OK
Underworld LPCM 5.1 No sounds, only DD tracks worked.

This is great, thanks so much for the hard work!

[ScottAllyn01]

I reworked the Jellyfish files (everything above 110 Mbps is upconverted to 2160p) and added a 300 Mbps clip today. Kodi on the Shield plays the 300 Mbps file with no problems. I'd say this combo is fairly Future-proof.

[hdmkv]

For the heck of it, tried an 8K video today and Shield did choke on it. Not surprised it did.

[ScottAllyn01]

For the heck of it, tried an 8K video today and Shield did choke on it. Not surprised it did.

Wonder if it was the resolution, or the bitrate that made it choke.

300 Mbps is as high as I can get with H264 and my current encoder. I did a HEVC encode at 350 Mbps and Kodi/Shield played that one with no issues, but it started dropping frames with a 400(ish) Mbps file; 'looked like it'd drop frames when the bitrate was over 365 Mbps. That was streaming across my network, tho... so I can't be sure that it wasn't a network related thing. Either way, 350 Mbps is pretty nuts!

[abpostelnicu]

For anything above 350mbps you must have an ssh or raid, in case you are streaming from a server. The network is very important specially the number of hops that it encounters, the topology etc. Theoretically 1 Gbps is enough, but in order to sustain anything close to 400mbps you need adequate hardware cpu and storage. Also rembemr it's not a good ideea to stream via samba interface you should use nfs, samba has a lot of overhead and can sometimes kill cpu.

[couto27]

I reworked the Jellyfish files (everything above 110 Mbps is upconverted to 2160p) and added a 300 Mbps clip today. Kodi on the Shield plays the 300 Mbps file with no problems. I'd say this combo is fairly Future-proof.

Thanks for the files..
I wonder if you can ADD to one of the files HD AUDIO (dts-hd or TrueHD) to test the reliability of the players playing Blu-ray Ultra HD..

Maybe add HD audio to this file..

Jellyfish-160-Mbps.mkv 3840x2160 [email protected] 149 Mbps 160 Mbps 173 Mbps 574 MB

[chilman408]

here you go:

Number of channels: 2.0
Stereo upmix: checked
Maintain original volume on downmix: checked
Enable passthrough: checked
Dolby Digital (AC3) capable receiver: checked
Enable Dolby Digital (AC3) transcoding: NOT checked
Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3) capable receiver: checked
DTS capable receiver: checked
TrueHD capable receiver: checked
DTS-HD capable receiver: checked

My receiver is a Denon AVR-1713

Why number of channels set to 2.0?

because i have only two speakers

So for 5.1 setup, do I need to set it to 5.1? Or 2.0? I thought passthrough has to be twp channels...

[hdmkv]

Wonder if it was the resolution, or the bitrate that made it choke.

It's this one . You can use this 4K Downloader to get it. Bitrate is only around 22Mbps, so it's probably the crazy 7680x4320 resolution. This 5K clip (5120x2700) also struggled to play.

For practical, real world use, from my tests, Shield TV is one of the most powerful, capable boxes I've seen at its pricepoint.