[wesk05]

I got slightly different results on the Nexus Player with Android M Developer Preview. Both the videos played when all acceleration was disabled. There were no drops or skips reported by Kodi, but I could see some stutter at the very beginning of the 1080p video (water spill scene).

This is what I got:
Nexus Player
1080p: ~70% (overall CPU usage) No drops/skips
720p: ~35%

SHIELD Android TV
1080p: ~50% (overall CPU usage) No drops/skips
720p: ~30%

I also noticed that when all acceleration was disabled on the Nexus Player, refresh rate switching worked!

http://i.imgur.com/HEmfsII.jpg