Hi there,
I'm having real trouble playing back HBO Max
4K HDR content with this addon. There are always a bunch of dropped frames no matter what and when. Even if I manually choose a real low bitrate of lets say 8mbit (hence not 4k) it will stutter. On the other hand: If I start a series that has no 4K HDR flag (so max 1080p content) it will play totally fine. Only 4K content has this issue, even if I choose lower resolutions.
My setup:
- FireTV 4k
- last Kodi apk 19.1.0
- HBO Max Addon v0.8.2
- Inputstream Adaptive 19.0.3
- Video settings are set to "Match framerate on start/stop"
- Resolution Whitelist: Marked everything
I can reproduce this Issue with Matrix (1) UHD/4K Dolby Vision the following way:
- I start the movie and select "best" quality (30Mbit Dolby Vision 20160p): Video stutters all the way and finally stops completely.
- FireTV Logcat has a lot of lines like this:
Code:
049 I MediaCodecLogger: 20944.secure.HW.video.hevc Dropping frame
Then I select "1920x1080 Dolby Vision @ 8.03 Mbit): Result is almost the same... it has less dropped frames, but still loosing frames.
And then I can watch the Watchmen Series at highest quality (1080p 10mbit) without any issues at all. In general, all 1080p sources from HBO Max run perfectly fine. All UHD Sources seem to have issues, one more, one less, but none plays without dropped frames, even If I manually turn down the resolution even below 8 MBit, which is less than regular HD content on HBOmax.
I can reproduce this always, for days now and it did never work without this issue (subscriped HBO MAX a week ago).
Perhaps someone here can repdroduce the same issue?