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Wagg
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2020-04-04, 08:31
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Getting dropouts and stutters again. Was good very briefly, didn't last long.
I've given up on my 2 Shields as a reliable Kodi platform. I've moved on to Coreelec on my Odroid N2 and an older S912 box. At least they're stable and have very little playback issues.
Sad really, it's been many years since Kodi was consistent on my 2015 & 2017 Shields. Since the Oreo update I think.
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Hi, I have used Kodi 18.6 for a long time. Today I made an update to Kodi 18.7 and I noticed that it changed the colors of my videos. The color of the video has increased. I had to turn down the color on the Sony Bravia TV by 3-4 degrees. Has this happened to you too?
Thanks
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Putting this in the Shield thread as I think it is a Shield problem rather than Kodi itself,
I have some Blu-ray rips which I have done from my own collection using makeMKV. They work well with the exception of those using the VC-1 video code. I am running 8.0.2.
With Kodi 17.6, all the Blu-ray mkv worked normally in that I could start play, stop and resume without any problems.
I then upgraded Kodi to 18.8 and have noticed problems only with the VC-1 Blu-ray mkv. I can start/start from beginning these videos and they work normally. However if I stop and then choose resume, all I get is a spinning ball and nothing plays. I then have to stop and restart from beginning and it works.
I have tried Kodi 18.8 via old android s905x, OSX and also Windows and the VC-1 Blu-ray resume normally so I think it is more a Shield TV problem. I also noticed there were previous posts commenting on problems with VC-1 encoded media and the fourth hot fix 8.0.2+ mentioned a decoding issue with vc-1 encoded media content.
Any advice otherwise I may need to transcode these videos.
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Latest update bring refresh rate matching! Works well on Netflix.
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2020-11-03, 13:29
(This post was last modified: 2020-11-04, 09:29 by FoxADRIANO.)
Shield TV: I need to ask a question please:
I have always hated Shiel TV, if I were to buy a new device, is there anything better than it, or do you advise me to buy the latest model of Shield TV?
I will use it ONLY to watch UHD 8-10bit videos made by me with Kodi. I'd like to buy a good file reader box.
I thank you for your suggestions.