PLEX RUNNING DOLBY VISION AND ATMOS VIA KODI USING THE NEW APK FROM THIS THREAD:SamuriHL wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 9:26 pmdjbuddha wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 8:58 pmI should have specified, I meant within Kodi. There is a Plex addon and it uses Kodi’s default player from my understanding (that’s why some use it because it stops the server from transcoding some other file types- on the shield it doesn’t apply as the shield plays almost everything natively in Plex) but it’s interesting .. gonna mess around when I get home, even though it probably won’t work at all lolAh, yea, in Kodi it would. I've never bothered to set up the Plex client in Kodi as I've never had a reason to. I suppose that'd be one way to do it. But I'm good with what we have for now until Plex adds support.
It's FAR from perfect, but I made video showing the following with the 2019 Shield
Link to the video is at the very bottom:
- How to do it (after altering the playcorefactory.xml file for Kodi, it's easier than you think)
- How to fix the sync issue if you fall out of sync when the movie starts (in my testing, this quick method maintains sync throughout the playback)
- Proof that DV is triggered and not faked (bottom left corner using a Vertex 2 showing LLDV running vs running a non-LLDV file)
- Proof that Dolby Atmos is running (I hear it, but the receiver shows it as you'll see in the video).
Notes:
- This is super-alpha. You still can't resume
- This is super-awesome, it means it's possible (will post this on the Plex forum on their Dolby Vision thread for the shield).
To make this APK the default player on Kodi, it's in the thread, but here's what I did to my playercorefactory.xml file (after </players>)
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule video="true" player="dvdplayer">
<rule filename=".*mkv.*|.*HEVC.*|.*hevc.*" player="ExoPlayer"/>
</rule>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tpore7e80euwy ... 5.MOV?dl=0