2023-01-18, 07:15
I watched a full 4K BluRay (The Outfit) on my 2019 Nvidia Shield using the "Jan 19" build posted by @jogal. The passthrough audiotrack was set to IEC.
As for the audio, it was completely flawless throughout. TrueHD Atmost passthrough worked as expected, with zero audio dropouts! It may still be too early to declare victory, but this is so far a really good sign that the fix by fritsch is indeed working.
The issue I had was actually with the video. I observed a frequent sort of "frame skip" where it felt like it was jumping ahead by a frame every so often. At around the 15 minute mark I decided to stop the playback and then play it again, resuming at the same position that I stopped at. Immediately the video was completely smooth and I was able to finish the rest of the movie with no issues.
I should be clear that I have only ever experienced video issues on Kodi v20+ when I played a file with 4K video and TrueHD Atmos. Every other video/audio combination always ran perfectly (including 1080p with TrueHD Atmos). While I'm definitely glad that the audio dropout issue appears to be fixed, I'm still hoping to find a version of Kodi that plays 4K + TrueHD without issues. Next I'll be testing supertoto1977's build from the original post to see if there's a potential solution there. Thank you to the devs for your continued hard work!
As for the audio, it was completely flawless throughout. TrueHD Atmost passthrough worked as expected, with zero audio dropouts! It may still be too early to declare victory, but this is so far a really good sign that the fix by fritsch is indeed working.
The issue I had was actually with the video. I observed a frequent sort of "frame skip" where it felt like it was jumping ahead by a frame every so often. At around the 15 minute mark I decided to stop the playback and then play it again, resuming at the same position that I stopped at. Immediately the video was completely smooth and I was able to finish the rest of the movie with no issues.
I should be clear that I have only ever experienced video issues on Kodi v20+ when I played a file with 4K video and TrueHD Atmos. Every other video/audio combination always ran perfectly (including 1080p with TrueHD Atmos). While I'm definitely glad that the audio dropout issue appears to be fixed, I'm still hoping to find a version of Kodi that plays 4K + TrueHD without issues. Next I'll be testing supertoto1977's build from the original post to see if there's a potential solution there. Thank you to the devs for your continued hard work!