[sasagr]

vtb is private (even more it is flagged PROHIBITED in the headers) and doesn't bring any performance gain on tvos - this suggests that vtb internally also only does sw decoding on tvos. The A8 has power enought for 1080p decoding though.

There was a miss understanding - the issue only happens on 64bit arm builds when doing sw decode. It doesn't happen when using VTB decoder on ios 64bit. That workaround is not available for tvos. (as said - no vtb implemented here). But there is alot more to dig into for tvos - the player issue is only one of it (and of course at somepoint this will be solved ...).

I hope but I m also sure that the Team Kodi will find the ways to fix all of them as always has been done.
The first Apple TVs were the houses of XBMC/Kodi and I hope it will still be for the new ones too.

But I cannot hide from myself that I was hoping in a start from more stable build at least on video playback, based on the what MrMC did as first step for this device. Then development as required and as normal to be....

But I m nobody here and I amy not know the full plan behind, so I will "shut-up" and offer my availability in case you need any tester.

Thanks for your great job and wish you Merry Xmas