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When I play a 4k video file, the android played installed in my Sony TV downscales the video to 1080p.
I've verified this by connecting a keyboard and pressing Z.
Other video apps, like YouTube, Disney, Apple TV, Netflix, all play 4k content in 4k (for YouTube and Netflix, there are debug OSD that show the resolution).
Any idea how to fix it?
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Can't edit -- I mean Kodi plays 4k downscaled to 1080p
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Are you sure it's 1080p when playing the video and not just the GUI?
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sorry guys - my english isn't perfect.
i follow this thread, but i can't see any solution to the base problem. i wan't to try again and please can you give a simple answer if kodi can't use the 4K solution like: kodi can't do this or if kodi can this please explain it step by step how to set kodi up to 4k? so here my question:
i also have a sony bravia tv modell year 2023. i also installed kodi on the sony bravia tv. sony use google tv aka android as operating system.
In kodi we all have a system information which cpu is used, how much memory with have and what gpu is found.
In kodi we all have the configuration of audio, video and other stuff, also we can set the resolution
my kodi with windows 11 operating system can change to any solution my graphics card offer and my monitor can use. if my monitor has a resolution by 2k my graphic card sets the limit to 2k and so i can use kodi with a max solution of 2k.
with my sony tv i have a 4k solution but kodi tells me the max solution is 1080p and this is the only solution i can decide to use.
so what is to do, that kodi can use the native 4k solution of the sony 4k monitor. is there any stuff to to in android or in a driver or is there no chance to get a higher resolution.
as anyone in the thread told kodi can play movies with more than 1080p resolution also it can play movies by lower resolutions like 720p oder 540p. but i think kodi do so in 1080p and not in 4k as the tv can use and other applications like netflix or youtube as android app do in google tv aka android. so it must be a configuration problem in kodi or i can't find the hint to tell kodi it can use 4k resolutions?
so what?
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I did not bring it up here, I replied to this thread started by someone else. What is wrong with saying that this is a Sony issue, not a Kodi issue? How does that not belong here? Jeesus...
Also, I am very well aware of how the gui resolution is one thing and the video stream another. What I do not know though, if Sony has changed something in their newer models, but on these older ones nothing can save the picture quality. I don't remember what I wrote to another thread, but I have tried every possible setting and nothing helps. I ended up buying a Magnetar blu-ray player, so I can now use external subtitles with my movies and don't have to use Kodi anymore. Now if there was a way to use Sony media player as an external player, the convenience might get me to rip all of the discs again, as that one does play 4k files without scaling back and forth.
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Sony has different settings for different sources. Kodi uses a separate setting than for example Netflix app. So you need to walk through everything and make sure everything is right, otherwise it will look different.
But it does play 4K.