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nope, no idea where todo that on amazon ... when you point i ll do that.
as this device is a once or twice / year device (buisness trip) and as i then use transcoded streams anyway ... no major for me.
i checked at amazon here but didnt came further then returning option wich i didnt wanted todo.
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i am having something simliar on the shield, sometimes on some channels. channel starts with a black screen but sound runs, but here after a while it beginns to buffer and screen comes back.
for me it began sometime between latest beta and rc candidates. i tried to test since which build it happens, but i cant anymore, because there arent such old builds anymore.
i had an issue open on github, but over some months nobody replied or cared about it, so i closed
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Just confirming that I have exactly the same behaviour on fire TV stick 4k in the UK. I'm using DVB-T2, from a geniatech T230 via TVH 4.2
All streams play fine in dreamtv player, but 1080i streams mostly crash Kodi and I have to kill the app.
All streams play fine on my Shield TV in Kodi, and on my old fire TV stick 2017.
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Hi
Just wanted to report, that I am also having this problem in Denmark.
Using TV Mosaic with HDHomeRun EXPAND as tuner.
Also tried with TVH. Same result.
No issues on other devices. RPi, Windows 10, etc.
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fritsch
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Try to contact amazon. They don't sell interlaced content and therefore also did not implement it in their firmware.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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I should have read this before 😖
Got my fire TV stick 4k of Friday and spent nearly 3 hours yesterday and today wondering why neither Kodi nor MrMC are working properly. I'm using Kodi by 100% for TV stuff (as a TVHeadend frontend) and I just was playing around with it in my home LAN.
Normally I'm using the Stick when I'm traveling and with Emby (my Emby server has access to my TVHeadend recordings directory and that way it supports transcoding which TVHeadend itself does not). No issues at all with Emby, on Kodi some TV stations did work, and others were always crashing Kodi in a way that I need to force quit the app.
After hours I found that the stations which are crashing Kodi on the stick are broadcasting in 1080i while the ones which are not crashing Kodi are using 720p. Checking Emby which is always working gave me the transcoding reason "interlaced content".
Finally proven by creating a stream profile on my TVHeadend server to deinterlace stuff and all works fine. So I can also confirm: Kodi 18.1 *is* crashing on the Fire TV stick 4k when interlaced content is played.
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Deinterlacing of SD content has now stopped working with fw 6.2.6.3 too. So much for a fix…
