[Hitcher]

Whitelist: 4k (all possible refresh rates, not sure this is needed)

 

without adding other resolutions to the whitelist (besides 3840x2160)

Got it?

[antony23]

While speaking about atv 4k and odroid n2 all say same (good) things...

It seems it does a lot of things, but they are all a little bugged... What a pity!

[sisero]

Anyone else having issues with connecting to network shares on the new Shield? I have tried smb, ftp and nfs. Nothing works. The first couple of days, ftp worked, but not anymore. Nothing changed on server side, all other machines can connect without problems.

EDIT: Turns out it was a problem with a vpn. Switching it off solved the problem

[docwra]

While speaking about atv 4k and odroid n2 all say same (good) things...

It seems it does a lot of things, but they are all a little bugged... What a pity!

I haven't found a single issue with my 2019 Shield

EDIT: actually that's not true, there was a small bug with google location services that meant the iPlayer and some other apps kept randomly disappearing from the home menu.
The fix was to disable location services in the shield settings and all is well with the world again!

[lightsout]

has anyone tested the new shield 2019 with live tv? the hardware deinterlacing of the old shield 2015/17 is not supposed to be good, has the shield 2019 improved a bit?

the basic version of shield 2019 only runs with 32 bit. in connection with kodi, there could be disadvantages compared to the old shield (64 bit) in terms of performance when decoding in software or deinterlacing for live tv in software (yadifx2). are there any experiences?

how is it with android with amazon prime inside kodi? under windows all this is decoded in software, how is it with shield?

What was wrong with the deinterlacing on the previous shield? I ave never heard that. I have had both and have never had any issues. I think that both of them will perform very similar in this regard. 

i have read on several websites that the deinterlacing quality of the shield should not be very good, e.g. in the nvidia forum or in the kodi forum

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=343959 

Maybe you confused that with it's upscaling ability? On the previous models it was a notch behind the competition. This has been remedied with the new model.

[wrxtasy]

What was wrong with the deinterlacing on the previous shield? I ave never heard that. I have had both and have never had any issues. I think that both of them will perform very similar in this regard. 

i have read on several websites that the deinterlacing quality of the shield should not be very good, e.g. in the nvidia forum or in the kodi forum

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=343959 

Maybe you confused that with it's upscaling ability? On the previous models it was a notch behind the competition. This has been remedied with the new model.

Well not totally because there are still some AI upscaling limitations, especially for those that watch broadcast interlaced TV:

2019 Nvidia Shield Ai upscaling settings (click)

But much better vs the non 2019 Shields

[SilverBlade]

While speaking about atv 4k and odroid n2 all say same (good) things...

It seems it does a lot of things, but they are all a little bugged... What a pity!

I haven't found a single issue with my 2019 Shield

EDIT: actually that's not true, there was a small bug with google location services that meant the iPlayer and some other apps kept randomly disappearing from the home menu.
The fix was to disable location services in the shield settings and all is well with the world again! 

I find transferring files over the network to hard drives attached to the Shield is slow. Average around 20megs/second

[antony23]

i have read on several websites that the deinterlacing quality of the shield should not be very good, e.g. in the nvidia forum or in the kodi forum

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=343959 

Maybe you confused that with it's upscaling ability? On the previous models it was a notch behind the competition. This has been remedied with the new model.

Well not totally because there are still some AI upscaling limitations, especially for those that watch broadcast interlaced TV:

2019 Nvidia Shield Ai upscaling settings (click)

But much better vs the non 2019 Shields

I really would investigate if people are confusing upscaling with deinterlacing...

Anyway, could not be kodi on the shield setted as autoresolution (with whitelist), so that shield handles deinterlacing and tv upscaling?

Setting in whitelist all above 30fps should let tv handle upscaling.. Or not?
If yes, this should solve bad upscaling when AI cannot be used...

Btw, no one asked nvidia if these limits on AI upscaling will be removed in future? I beleave this cannot be an HW limiy, but only software.

[DaMacFunkin]

While speaking about atv 4k and odroid n2 all say same (good) things...

It seems it does a lot of things, but they are all a little bugged... What a pity!

I haven't found a single issue with my 2019 Shield

EDIT: actually that's not true, there was a small bug with google location services that meant the iPlayer and some other apps kept randomly disappearing from the home menu.
The fix was to disable location services in the shield settings and all is well with the world again! 

I find transferring files over the network to hard drives attached to the Shield is slow. Average around 20megs/second

Fixed with the new hotfix image, have you signed up yet?

[DaMacFunkin]

Maybe you confused that with it's upscaling ability? On the previous models it was a notch behind the competition. This has been remedied with the new model.

Well not totally because there are still some AI upscaling limitations, especially for those that watch broadcast interlaced TV:

2019 Nvidia Shield Ai upscaling settings (click)

But much better vs the non 2019 Shields

I really would investigate if people are confusing upscaling with deinterlacing...

Anyway, could not be kodi on the shield setted as autoresolution (with whitelist), so that shield handles deinterlacing and tv upscaling?

Setting in whitelist all above 30fps should let tv handle upscaling.. Or not?
If yes, this should solve bad upscaling when AI cannot be used...

Btw, no one asked nvidia if these limits on AI upscaling will be removed in future? I beleave this cannot be an HW limiy, but only software.

People have asked on the Nvidia forums if the upscaling will be available in the future for above 30fps and where advised it is a work in progress (that doesn’t mean it’s a yes but at the moment it isn’t a no).

[Meretory]

1% is better than 2017 model.

[dwalme]

I did some tests comparing the upscaling quality of the new Shield Pro to Apple TV 4K & Odroid N2. I used Shield's AI Enhanced-medium level for comparison against other devices. I also compared the different AI Enhanced levels. For Kodi, I used Lancsoz3-Optimized for 480/720p and bilinear for 1080p. On Apple TV 4K, I used Infused. The test pattern is from Spears & Munsil HD & UHD Benchmark discs. 

1) 480p to UHD
2) 720p to UHD
3) 1080p to UHD
4) UHD (No upscaling)
5) 720p - AI different levels
6) 1080p - AI different levels

The surprise to me is how good the Ordroid N2 is at upscaling 1080p to 4k.   I'd put it above the AppleTV 4k.

[SilverBlade]

I haven't found a single issue with my 2019 Shield

EDIT: actually that's not true, there was a small bug with google location services that meant the iPlayer and some other apps kept randomly disappearing from the home menu.
The fix was to disable location services in the shield settings and all is well with the world again! 

I find transferring files over the network to hard drives attached to the Shield is slow. Average around 20megs/second 

Fixed with the new hotfix image, have you signed up yet? 

I don't install non-certified patches. It's a gamble.

[hdmkv]

I did some tests comparing the upscaling quality of the new Shield Pro to Apple TV 4K & Odroid N2. I used Shield's AI Enhanced-medium level for comparison against other devices. I also compared the different AI Enhanced levels. For Kodi, I used Lancsoz3-Optimized for 480/720p and bilinear for 1080p. On Apple TV 4K, I used Infused. The test pattern is from Spears & Munsil HD & UHD Benchmark discs. 

1) 480p to UHD
2) 720p to UHD
3) 1080p to UHD
4) UHD (No upscaling)
5) 720p - AI different levels
6) 1080p - AI different levels

The surprise to me is how good the Ordroid N2 is at upscaling 1080p to 4k.   I'd put it above the AppleTV 4k. 

How do you best set-up N2 to upscale everything to 4K? Whitelist all but 4K resolutions in Settings?

[dwalme]

I did some tests comparing the upscaling quality of the new Shield Pro to Apple TV 4K & Odroid N2. I used Shield's AI Enhanced-medium level for comparison against other devices. I also compared the different AI Enhanced levels. For Kodi, I used Lancsoz3-Optimized for 480/720p and bilinear for 1080p. On Apple TV 4K, I used Infused. The test pattern is from Spears & Munsil HD & UHD Benchmark discs. 

1) 480p to UHD
2) 720p to UHD
3) 1080p to UHD
4) UHD (No upscaling)
5) 720p - AI different levels
6) 1080p - AI different levels

The surprise to me is how good the Ordroid N2 is at upscaling 1080p to 4k.   I'd put it above the AppleTV 4k. 

How do you best set-up N2 to upscale everything to 4K? Whitelist all but 4K resolutions in Settings?

If you want only 4k output then only whitelist the 4k frame rates. If you want to output content at native resolution then select all that apply.