Hello, I am a big fan of Kodi. I was using it on an android box with my old tv and it was working fine.
Now that I have a new Philips android tv, I have installed Kodi directly on my tv which is much more responsive than my old android box. Like you guys, I have encountered some ratio issue.
(2019-04-06, 17:57)fritsch Wrote: The best way to workaround broken firmware is patching the native player instead of fixing the root cause ... that logic makes no sense.
I am not sure that this is Philips firmware issue as you are suggesting. For me all other apps don't have any ratio issue (Netflix, YouTube, MxPlayer...). And I would be very surprised that Google has implemented in YouTube a workaround just for the Philips tv. As Google is making the standard with their OS, they are more like to implement their apps as per the standard. Also, it would mean that all the other apps have implemented a work around for the Philips tv. Not impossible but fill very unlikely.
I have also another issue with Kodi that might be related to the same problem: the display is not properly recognized. In the information in Kodi, the display is described as 1920x1080 60Hz whereas it is a 4K display. In the display setting in Kodi I have only one possibility 1920x1080 60Hz, nothing else, no 4K, no 24Hz, no 50Hz… When I play a 4K video, the display is set to 1920x1080 60Hz (can be seen while switching aspect ratio with the z key). Also, even if in the settings “Adjust display refresh rate to match video” is turn on, the refresh rate always remains 60Hz.
In YouTube, when playing a 4K even if the biterate is not so good, I can tell that is displayed in 4k.
Maybe the hardware is not properly identified in Kodi and that is why we have those issues with the aspect ratio, the resolution and the refresh rate.
What is your point of view? Any other clues?