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Anyone any idea if it'd be possible to fix 1080p VC-1 stutter for this device?
Looks like with software decoding only about 50% CPU capacity is used, which leads me to the question if something extra strange is going on? Shouldn't the device have enough cpu power to do 1080p vc1 via software?
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This may be a stupid qn. I have Kodi 18.3 on FireStick 4K, passthru enabled and am playing back UHD rip with TrueHD 7.1 audio, it shows up on my AVR as 5.1 PCM (I only have 5.1 speakers so its fine).
Does this mean Kodi is decoding HD audio->PCM or is it just reading the uncompressed audio and passthru in a different format?
And is there any difference in audio quality in this PCM vs HD bitstreaming?
I see no reason to get a Shield etc if the audio quality is same, true?
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I received my Fire TV Stick 4k yesterday and overall I'm pretty pleased with the device. It feels snappy and was really easy to set up. Coming from Kodi DSPlayer with MadVR I was expecting a bit of degradation in video quality, but I have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised how well it performs on my Panasonic VT60 Plasma (1080p).
The dongle is hooked up to my B&W soundbar through HDMI, but unfortunately the soundbar only supports Dolby Digital (not Plus), DTS and stereo PCM. I can confirm that I get proper DTS and DD passthrough and multi-channel downmixing into Dolby Digital for other audio formats, when setting speaker configuration to 2.0 and enabling Dolby Digital transcoding. The audio is also perfectly in sync, both with passthrough and transcoding (this is not the case with Plex however).
The only thing that's bugging me is that framerate switching only works until I turn off my tv and/or soundbar. After this it will only use 60 Hz. I have to go to the Fire TV settings and switch resolution from 'Auto' to '1080p 60Hz', and then set it back to 'Auto' and also turn on 'Framerate switching' again. After this it will work again until my devices are turned off. If I go to the Whitelist settings it will only show 1080p @59.97Hz. When I do the settings trick, all the other resolutions and refresh rates will show in the Whitelist settings. UNTIL I turn off soundbar/tv. Very annoying, but I appreciate that this is a bug with the FireTV, because Plex also suffers from this issue.