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ragico wrote: Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:13 pm

"A fellow Panasonic owner! Do you also only get LLDV option in DV display settings on the Ugoos?"

Dolby Vision settings:
Dolby Vision enable low latency (YUV)
Dolby Vision disable

The Panasonic GZ series (2019) do not support Tv led as far as I know.
This feature has been introduced in 2020 HZ series.

By the way, I am waiting for an Oled LG CX in nest days and will report accordingly-

I don’t believe that’s the case. My understanding is that Panasonic has always had TV led DV support on their OLEDs. What has been a problem is source devices detecting it due to the way the capabilities are presented in EDID. So this would be possible for Ugoos to fix their side. Otherwise we would need something like HDFury Dr HDMI to fix it up. I’ve asked Ugoos if they can look

RESET_9999 wrote: Thu Mar 25, 2021 9:35 pm

bobbymkV wrote: Thu Mar 25, 2021 9:18 pm Yes, same method I was doing before. Putting the OTA zip on USB, going to the About-->System Update app.

Now does anyone have any tips for getting Fandango's DV Kodi to work? I have untrusted apps allowed and it keeps on failing for some reason. I'm assuming I should use aarch64, which worked fine on my Shield.

Edit: Maybe a dumb question, but do I need to install the Play Store version of Kodi first and then install Fandango's? I thought it was totally standalone, but maybe I'm wrong.

yep , the 64x didn't work for me as well: I used the 32x version. You don't have to download it from the play store.

norrellmeister wrote: Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:07 am Also seeing some serious stability issues in basic use.
Exiting a movie in Plex usually leaves the HDMI in a broken state, where there is a black screen, but sound works. Repeatedly hitting the power button fixes it, usually.
Resolution switching and color mode switching are not reliable. Sometimes I don’t get into DV mode, sometimes I do. Sometimes DV mode or 1080p mode or HDR mode “sticks” after a movie.
Playing DV movies is not starting reliably. Sometimes it’s starting in SDR. Restarting fixes it.

sounds similar to my first hour with this device... Once I stopped playing with the colorspace settings, those issues didn't happen again.

norrellmeister wrote: Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:39 pm
What settings did you end up with (color space, resolution, refresh rate)? I have DV enabled and it seems like it’s not even give me a choice of color space.

bobbymkV wrote: Fri Mar 26, 2021 4:36 am This Ugoos, man

You can add DTS transcoding to the list of things it cannot do properly. Wish I could just do full passthrough, but I have the Sonos Arc 5.1 set and need transcoding capabilities as it can't receive DTS. It works great on the Shield for the most part (Kodi and Plex). When testing this and Dolby Vision you wind up being surprised when the video actually starts playing. The amount of times I've had to reboot or close apps because I don't even know what the hell it's doing is beyond maddening.

All of this really just makes me have more appreciation for the Shield even with its red push and lack of FEL. I knew this Ugoos was a bit rough around the edges, but it's more flawed than I imagined. The AM 6+ is over a year old at this point and as far as I can tell the team that works on these devices is very small. I think it's a longshot that this thing becomes what many of us want it to be.

quietvoid wrote: Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:15 pm ExoPlayer isn't relevant here, it doesn't do any of the Dolby Vision processing.
That's up to Android MediaCodec and the proprietary pipeline to deal with.

MOHAX777 wrote: Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:19 am There are some types of metadata (Block type) in mkv header was added, example for dv-7 profile: dvcC (Dolby Vision configuration) and hvcE (Dolby Vision enhancement-layer HEVC configuration). In source code i found references only for dvcC. In my understanding, the exo mkv-parser must transmit also hvcE meta-data to MediaCodec for EL processing

bedders wrote: Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:21 pm

ragico wrote: Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:13 pm

"A fellow Panasonic owner! Do you also only get LLDV option in DV display settings on the Ugoos?"

Dolby Vision settings:
Dolby Vision enable low latency (YUV)
Dolby Vision disable

The Panasonic GZ series (2019) do not support Tv led as far as I know.
This feature has been introduced in 2020 HZ series.

By the way, I am waiting for an Oled LG CX in nest days and will report accordingly-

I don’t believe that’s the case. My understanding is that Panasonic has always had TV led DV support on their OLEDs. What has been a problem is source devices detecting it due to the way the capabilities are presented in EDID. So this would be possible for Ugoos to fix their side. Otherwise we would need something like HDFury Dr HDMI to fix it up. I’ve asked Ugoos if they can look into it.

bobbymkV wrote: Sat Mar 27, 2021 3:02 am Watched a new 1917 mkv in its entirety with Kodi - no fast forwarding or pausing. The Ugoos glitched a couple times at like the 35m mark and then around 80m. It was similar to what it does at the start and eventually fixes itself.

Not sure how to convey issues like these to Ugoos support. We are using an unofficial build of Kodi and they probably need sample files to test.