2018-11-27, 09:17
(2018-11-25, 01:54)noggin Wrote: Interesting. An early UK TV 1080i25 Blu-ray release rip (H264) is a green and flashy blocky mess on the Fire TV Stick 4. A different, later release, 1080i25 H264 Blu-ray rip plays OK (In both cases the content is 25p - there is no intra-frame motion)
Here are my impressions of FireStick 4k 2018 on a 1080p plasma display.
- FireStick does not support Hardware Acceleration for certain video formats. I have noted the MPEG-2 videos in .VOB and .MPG containers (NTSC DVD rips) displayed as flashing green screen with Kodi v17.6 & SPMC v16.x. Another poster in previous page noticed similar issue with Divx-5 videos. The green flashing screen disappeared when I disabled Hardware Acceleration under Kodi. The FireStick is clearly geared towards streaming video & audio formats.
- I have noticed green pixilation and artifacts while playing high bit rate 1080p VC-1 files with high-res audio. I had few old Bluray rips with VC-1 video. The artifacts appeared both in Kodi and SPMC player. However artifacts did not appear on LibreELEC v2.8.4 (on a S905X box) so I am not sure if it is a Android, FireStick or Kodi issue.
- I can get multichannel PCM out put if I select 'fixed' audio profile under Kodi Audio settings. However I get massive 900ms audio sync lag. Other posters has also reported audio sync issue. For me the audio sync persisted both in Kodi v17.6 and SPMC v16.x
- Firestick does not support 1080i output. I have an old JVC receiver which support 1080i as highest resolution. The Firestick defaulted to 720p resolution and I could not not manually set the resolution to 1080i. However Android 7.1 and LibreELEC 2.8 on a S905X box correctly set the resolution to 1080i.