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I know you as a Kodi dev think it in a different way because Kodi is a platform and these boxes are just different hardware with firmware below it. I as an end user only think Kodi as another app, along side the apps like YouTube, NetFlix etc. For example, Google's own YouTube app do framerate matching on both Roku and Apple TV 4K automatically, just not on its own Android TV platforms.
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My apologies if this question has been answered but from the Google TV movie tab (Or any Google TV tab) can you see Kodi movies and TV shows?
Office: Google TV | Kodi 20.0 | Samsung 50" \ Movies: 2734
Master Bedroom: Google TV | Kodi 20.0 | Samsung 43" \ Music: Artist 220 | Albums 1001 | Songs 106995
Theater: Google TV | Kodi 20.0 | Samsung 75" \ TV Shows: 62 | Seasons 218 | Episodes 3858
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I have finally received mine in the UK and I have to say I am severely underwhelmed by it, I can’t think of anything praise worthy about it.
I own 2 4K firestick, Chromecast Ultra, Chromecast Gen 3, Shield Pro 2019 and Shield 2017 As well as the Zidoo Z9X, this is the biggest waste of money out of all of them.
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I got mine yesterday. Could not yet motivate myself to plug it in. The package, the sewing though is looking quite nice. Let's see if the remote is too small or nice to use.
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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2020-10-18, 04:25
(This post was last modified: 2020-10-18, 04:26 by gizmomel.)
I picked up my two Google TV + Chromecasts from a local retailer on Thursday (Australia) and have been quite impressed with the brief play around I've had so far - I had a quick trial playing a movie (24fps) on 1080p60 and couldn't see any stutter streaming over 2.4GHz wifi.
Possibly not a specific question for this device - but how can I load Kodi using the voice assistant / or get Koid to play a specific movie or tv show please using voice? Does Kodi 18.x support voice assistant? ie: I was playing around and as 'ok google switch on the tv" and it worked, so thought maybe I can use other voice commands to load up Kodi etc.
Secondly is there a quick guide to creating the database for movies and tv on a NAS, so I can centralise media watching for these devices?
thank you.
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I think I use the time to explain how that works in kodi and how this results in a 3:2 cadence (I used random value,s but that's okay for the first 16 pictures).
Let's assume 5 pictures with their starting time on display:
1:0,2:42,3:84,4:126,5:168
With the 60 hz tick
0,16,32,48,64,80,96,112,128,144,160,176
For the picture queue above the final time it is allowed on screen is (always 1 less then the new one would start).
Therefore the following happens:
[0,16,32] -> PIC1 (3)
[48,64,80] -> PIC2 (3)
[96,112] -> PIC3 (2)
[128,144, 160] ->PIC4 (3)
[176, ...] -> PIC 5 (3)
(2)
And there you get the Cadence. This principle kodi does for everything, after choosing something that "matches" a bit better than others. Here also comes Sync Playback to Display into play, where e.g. 23.976 is speed up to 24.0 so that it fits more nicely. Therefore: Please if you cannot really match the refreshrate with an integer division, turn on Sync Playback to Display, which will disable passthrough, but "optimize" this effect a bit. 23.976 on 60 hz would be hardcore horrible, though most TVs have at least a 59.9xy mode, where it works as shown above with PT.
This is btw. also a reason why even dump TVs can do 60 and 59.9x hz.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.