shawnc22 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 1:43 am
I'm skeptical. Even if it's capable of playing FEL, I suspect that it's just ignoring the EL like what the Shield is doing. I highly doubt that the Chromecast has the dual decoders needed to properly playback FEL.
Hi all, I have made the test with the new Chromecast with Google TV (CCWGTV)
Test platform:
- TV OLED Panasonic TX-65HZ1000
- Emby/Plex beta MediaServer on Windows 10 Pro 64 bits
- Chromecast with Google TV (2020)
The results:
- test DT DL FEL: playback as HDR10 (CCWGTV can't play dual track DV)
- test SL p8 RPU: playback as HDR10 (without noise)
- test ST DL FEL: playback as DV with noise during 5 seconds
test ST DL FEL
https://ibb.co/p4mQSgr
test SL p8 RPU
https://ibb.co/rbCXb8V
Latest Emby beta can't play the file as DV it plays as HDR10, but I can do it with latest Plex beta, but only during 5 seconds, rendering the noise of the FEL layer as the picture shows .
After this 5 seconds Plex stops the playback and shows an error saying something like there isn't enought power to decode the file. I receive this error when Plex can't play a file without transcoding because I disable transcoding in Plex, but it never has ben shown in the middle of a playback, it always show before rendering.
Well, after the last firmware update on february this little device never ceases to amaze me.
Also I can play with latest Plex beta FEL files of 90Mb/s without issues.
So, after these results, can we say that this device fully supports FEL media?