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I'm having more success with DV profile 8 files so far. It seems the Shield often chokes on profile 7 streams, which is understandable since it doesn't support profile 7.

When playing DV7 with a player that makes the profile known to the decoder(Emby, exoplayer, etc), it states that profile 128(ie. profile 7) isn't supported - maybe it then falls back to decoding the stream as HEVC? As the logs state, when using Kodi, the decoder isn't aware of the DV profile, so it is possible that it then tries to decode it as Dolby Vision and fails. Just a thought.

@hoppel118 : Does this seem possible according to your testing?

I ran various tests and found out which DV profiles work in specific constellations and how to reproduce errors like black screen and wrong colors. It’s not complete, but it’s a good starting point.

Could you, if you haven't, try playing different profile 8 and 5 files, without playing any profile 7s? Maybe trying to decode DV7 streams is what makes the decoder unstable.

For now, I'm setting the mime type for DV7 files to "video/hevc" to make them decode as HEVC. And converting my DV7 files to DV8 to test more.