I know very well that document. After reading that document I started to test kodi and the TV features.
I do not care to speak up for Sony but from my tests and also reading from the @CiNcH's document I found an issue only in the VC1 codec in the Full HD TV socs.
This is the list of the 2015 Full HD Sony TV codec:
- MPEG2: It works in hardware.
- H263: It works in hardware.
- AVC/H264 : It works in hardware.
- HEVC/H265: It works in hardware.
- MPEG4 part 2 (MP4V-ES): It works in hardware with SMPC and with Kodi for files with a width higher than 800 since the Kodi code disables the hardware acceleration for small files.
- VP6: It works in hardware with SMPC but not with Kodi since Kodi wrongly forces the use of the VP8 hardware codec (I opened a bug report for this).
- VP8: It works in hardware.
- VC1: It does not work in hardware. According to the mime description, WVC1 (Advanced profile) is not implemented in the soc. Only the simple profile and main profile is implemented (WMV3) but Kodi fails to render the video and it goes into an infinite loop.
- MJPEG: I does not work in hardware since it is not in list of codecs which Kodi renders in hardware.
The big issue is the one reported by @
CiNcH on VP9 codec which does not support VP9.2 profile for the 4K TVs.
It is a Sony's big mistake to sell HDR TVs without a codec which youtube is going to use for the HDR 4k videos.
I have a Full HD TV and I do not complaint about this (the Full HD TVs does not have this codec).
I agree with you that Sony could make a bigger effort to put more powerfull CPUs in the TV.
The CPUs is bearly sufficient for the Full HD Tvs as mine but not for the 4k Tvs.