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I know there was a problem a while back where certain hdr Blu-ray's did not have any max CCL data. (terminator 2 was one example)
These showed a very dark picture but this was fixed by adding a fallback to 1000 nits for movies without that information embedded.
FLL is to do with individual frame brightness so I would of thought this does not affect HDR10.
Surely only HDR10+ and Dolby Vision would be affected by FLL.
I am no expert though and I am only speculating here.
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Hi I'm new here, hope this is the right thread for my question.
I have a Mecool M8s Pro L with S912 running Android TV OS Nougat.
I was wondering if tone mapping is now somehow possible while using the Android TV OS? I always thought the tone mapping on AMLogic boxes was only possible when using libreelec or coreelec. The tone mapping didn't work on android.
Has that changed now with a Kodi update? or is there any other way tone mapping on AMLogic boxes is now accessible on android?
I know the Mi Box has this setting since the Oreo update, but is not 100%? although as far as I know this is the only ATV box that does tone HDR>SDR in the Android TV OS.
Thanks
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MadVR guys correct me if I'm wrong...
Unless you have a Displaycal or similar, user generated 3DLUT, mapped for each users, differing SDR displays. And then have software adjustments of the like MadVR has, then you will not get anywhere near decent color and brightness output from off the shelf cheap Android hardware - when trying trying to playback HDR content on to a SDR display.
A generic AMLogic "one size fits all" approach is simply not going to work properly no matter which Android OS version is used.
LE or CE, Kodi's Tone mapping is only accessible if Software decoding. Trying to Software decode 4K 10bit HEVC will bring virtually all devices to a grinding halt. So that won't work either.
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Sorry I'm new to tone mapping and HDR.
Assuming that proper software decoding is simply not possible on most devices, what does the Mi Box do when the HDR>SDR option is enabled? Is it hardware decoding? (which most of the Amlogic chips support)
From what I've known previously tone mapping support simply wasn't available on Nougat for ATV, hence the hardware level tone mapping is not present on other ATV boxes.
On a side note, I've heard the Fire TV Stick 4K does support tone mapping. Would tone mapping work out of the box with Kodi on the Fire TV Stick 4K?
I'm just looking for a solution where I can use Kodi to watch 4K content on an SDR TV without it being washed out and still be able to use android apps for the other content.
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2019-06-19, 23:42
(This post was last modified: 2019-06-19, 23:45 by DarkSphere00.)
Hello,
I need some help choosing my media player.
I'm sorry if I'm asking something that you've probably been asked so many times, but although I'm learning much about this I still am far from being able to decide without asking for help.
My use case is very specific: I need to mainly play 4K HDR files contained in mkv containers while bitstream a Dolby Atmos/DTS:X audio track to my AVR.
These would be BluRay Rips, so they would be quite big in size and of a high bitrate.
This is the most important thing to me, and the one that I need to work as best as it can.
Best picture quality while playing this is more important to me than any other feature.
My other requirement would be to stay much far away from Windows. Linux would be the best but Android is fine too.
For these reasons, I think the right choice for me would be one between either the Nvidia Shield TV or the Odroid N2.
I've excluded the Vero 4k+ because apparently it isn't powerful enough to play Hi10p (H264) videos, while the other can (from what I've read).
Other nice things to play would be 1080p mkvs, while always while bitstreaming Atmos/DTS:X tracks, and Hi10p mkvs but those are not the priority.
What do you suggest I buy?