[CastagnaIT]

@CastagnaIT : One quick question. Is the hardware acceleration absolutely necessary on the Shield TV? Could the playback work without this feature on this media player? (Tegra X1 or X1+ SoC: 4xARM Cortex A57 + 4xARM Cortex A53 cores and 256 bits Maxwell GPU).
Thanks

EDIT: I think I have found a bug. Some video titles are not properly displayed. See this screenshot:

This movie is called 'Believer', but as you can see, only 2 empty rectangles are shown (maybe due to improper text encoding).

This is Kodi limits
Currently Kodi doesn't handle all the characters, and it won't do so on Kodi 19.x as well...
You have to try to switch Skin font to Arial, but it is possible that also Arial font do not support all asian fonts  

Switching to Arial did the trick, thanks. What about this?

One quick question. Is the hardware acceleration absolutely necessary on the Shield TV? Could the playback work without this feature on this media player? (Tegra X1 or X1+ SoC: 4xARM Cortex A57 + 4xARM Cortex A53 cores and 256 bits Maxwell GPU).

hardware acceleration is necessary to correct process the video stream
if you want to keep it disabled, but why??
at least as far as i know the MediaCodec hardware acceleration (surface) is mandatory keep it enabled