[fandangos]

I've been following this thread for a while, and I'm very pleased(and impressed) by what you're saying. Any chance of a small howto? I know my way around compiling/building software, but I get lost in the Kodi source code.
BTW, I just did something similar for Jellyfin for Android TV, but that's exoplayer based, so it was (I imagine) a bit simpler.

I'll post a apk soon for people to test. 

The heavy lifting was done by the Plex team and quietvoid pulling the diff so it was easier to read. 
Another problem was that the information from DVDVideoCodecAndroidMediaCodec sent to the shield decoder was wrong, so even forcing DolbyVision it would not work. 
That's fixed now. 

The problem is that Dolby Vision is marked with MKBETAG('d','v','c','C') and MKBETAG('d','v','v','C'). Kodi uses MKTAG('d', 'v', 'h', 'e') MKTAG('d', 'v', 'h', '1') that is compatible with MP4 (that's why MP4 works).
But adding those new tags still doesn't set Dolby Vision correctly, so that's what I'm looking at now. 

For Android, you can only compile on linux but for development, nothing is better than Visual Studios. 
So I'm heading back to windows to use it and figure out a good if statement to put the correct decoder request and that should be it. 

FFmpeg changes and a few changes in DVDVideoCodecAndroidMediaCoded and Dolby Vision from MKV is supported.

Appreciate it. BTW, are you compiling Leia or Matrix?

Matrix