2021-02-20, 17:53
(2021-02-20, 11:18)meccs Wrote: I am really impressed by the Chromecast with Google TV as a Kodi device. Yes, there is no resolution switching but the streaming itself feels really robust, even with just Wifi. I tried to increase the Kodi buffer quite a bit and it seems to even offload it's own UI to make more room. You notice this when you back out of Kodi after streaming something and it takes a few seconds to load the UI, just like when you restart the device. Fire TV 4k Stick and Cubes had issues here and there for me, not so the CCwGTV. I have a 120 Hz TV with 5:5 pulldown so the refresh rate thing isn't an issue for me personally.Ah - so your TV does a 3:2 removal of the permanent 59.94p output with 3:2 23.976p content, and then displays it with 5:5 at 120p.
That's great - but it doesn't solve the problem with 25fps content (like all the European Netflix and Prime Video series - such as The Crown, Series 2 onwards of The Grand Tour etc., or for Prime Video's live sport like Premiere League football, Tennis etc.) where you really need refresh rate switching to output 25/50fps content at 50fps.
25fps content at 59.94Hz is not great, but 50fps content at 59.94Hz is horrible - with 10Hz judder on any motion (due to every 5th frame being repeated, so 10 frame repeats each second)
