[hoppel118]

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.

Yes, it’s one of my findings. P81 is absolutely stable.

At the moment P81 only works with mkv, not with mp4. Another finding...

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?

Absolutely. sounds reasonable. But until now, I did not check any logfiles. I only tried to find a reproducibility.

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.

I tried different scenarios. Every profile on its own and in combination with the other profiles. It was possible to reproduce the black screen and the color shifts.

I made all my tests with your latest Kodi 19 Build.

Where shall I open the issue/s?

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.

If I am right profile 8.1 doesn’t support HD-Audio, because it’s mainly for streaming normally. So I hope that your DV7>DV8 conversion is for testing purposes only.

Regards Hoppel