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After testing the GT1 ultimate box with latest (as I know of) firmware (704), The box resolution is actually locked to 1920x1080, it report a physcial size of 1920x1080 no matter what resolution is selected, as the Android WindowManager reports, meaning no matter what resolution you choose, application would see 1920x1080. This causes YouTube to play video at maximum 1920x1080, and kodi to report the resolution to be 1920x1080. As some of you noticed you can try and play 4k movies in youtube website on chrome, and after a few green artifacts the box crashes! Changing the WindowManager reported resolution to 4k allows the YouTube app to show 4k option, using that options in app also causes green artifacts and eventually crashing the box alltogheter. No please don't try and tell us that Kodi is locked by default to that resolution because all of the other boxes I tried (that support 4k) are reporting the resolution correctly, now playing 4k movies in vlc and kodi is in fact working, but probably scaled down to the 1920x1080 resolution ending in none 4k playback. Due to the YouTube video behviour I suspect the box is incapable (HW or SW) of playing 4k video with the VP9 coded correctly, which is one of the reasons we all bought the box in the first place. So to sum it up, Kodi isn't actully display any 4k movies, YouTube is incabple of playing 4k movies on the GT1, the h264 and h265 codecs are able to decode and play 4k movies but the OS actually scales them to 1920x1080 so no real 4k!. We paid for a 4k box only getting something quite limited, I know it's not easy to maintain so much products and HW variants but this is inaccepctable, find a solution before all of this is going on review sites and people would come running to get the money back. I guess chanchan would have quite alot on his plate. Oh, also do yourself a favor and release the sources so someone else might have a look and try to fix this mess. |
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Post time 2017-09-15 18:19:27
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