Kodi on the NVIDIA SHIELD TV with flawless refreshrate switching
Channel: Martijn Kaijser
Date: 2015-09-30

The NVIDIA SHIELD TV now supports frame-rate switching for both 1080p (HD) and 4K (UHD) at 23.976 to 60Hz depending on what your TV/AVR supports. The 23.976 is what many movie enthusiast have been waiting for since the release of the NVIDIA SHIELD TV device. The NVIDIA developers have been working hard to achieve this goal and now with their 2.0 Firmware update this will be fully supported.

The following list is what is found using the SHIELD TV on a normal 1080p television (merely as example specific to this TV):
* Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080 @ 60.000000 Hz
* Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080 @ 50.000000 Hz
* Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080 @ 24.000000 Hz
* Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080 @ 25.000000 Hz
* Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080 @ 30.000000 Hz
* Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080 @ 59.940060 Hz
* Found resolution 1920 x 1080 for display 0 with 1920 x 1080 @ 23.976025 Hz

The following list is what is found using the SHIELD TV on a 4K UHD television (merely as example specific to this TV):
* Found resolution 3840 x 2160 for display 0 with 3840 x 2160 @ 60.000000 Hz
* Found resolution 3840 x 2160 for display 0 with 3840 x 2160 @ 24.000000 Hz
* Found resolution 3840 x 2160 for display 0 with 3840 x 2160 @ 25.000000 Hz
* Found resolution 3840 x 2160 for display 0 with 3840 x 2160 @ 30.000000 Hz
* Found resolution 3840 x 2160 for display 0 with 3840 x 2160 @ 50.000000 Hz
* Found resolution 3840 x 2160 for display 0 with 3840 x 2160 @ 59.940060 Hz
* Found resolution 3840 x 2160 for display 0 with 3840 x 2160 @ 23.976025 Hz
* Found resolution 3840 x 2160 for display 0 with 3840 x 2160 @ 29.970030 Hz

Above values are only applicable to the TVs tested on. Yours may be different.

Another feature that has been added is support for H.264, H.265, VC-1,MPEG-2, WMV9, and VP9 hardware decoding. 

Additionally the NVIDIA SHIELD TV now also supports pass-through of HD audio (DTS-HD / TrueHD). However currently this is not yet supported by Kodi on the Android platform. One of our developers is currently working on this to get this working for Kodi version 16.
So be sure to check the status on the Kodi forum or websites on updates about this topic.


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Disclaimer:
This video was made using Kodi 16.0 Jarvis. The actual layout may vary between versions.

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