[MAX] Problem with HDR10 playback, pixelated effect, 4K only is fine

[pmsobrado]

Over the past month (I don't know exactly when it started, I don't use Max a lot) I'm having trouble with HDR feature.

I have a Fire TV 4K Max. Max app plays fine. 4K content plays fine on the addon with Kodi. But HDR content is glitchy / pixelated. If I disable HDR10 on addon settings then it plays fine. I don't know if the same applies to Dolby Vision because my TV doesn't have that technology.

I tried with Dune Prophecy and Dune part 2.

Disney+ HDR10 content is fine on my Fire TV 4K Max. Also other addons not by @matthuisman, like PrimeVideo or Movistar plays HDR10 just fine.

I can provide more tests or logs if you want.

My setup:

Fire TV 4K Max (first gen)
Kodi 21.1 Omega
Max addon 0.1.6
InputStream Adaptative 21.5.7
InputStream Helper (the normal one) 0.7.0

Thanks in advance!

Related issues:

Paco8/plugin.video.skyott#56
xbmc/inputstream.adaptive#1742

[matthuisman]

have you tried fiddling with the kodis HDR10+ setting ?
https://kodi.wiki/view/Settings/Player/Videos#Allow_HDR_dynamic_metadata_formats

[pmsobrado]

I just tried. I only have "Dolby Vision" and "HDR10+" (which my TV is capable, BTW) there, I tried with both enabled and both disabled, no difference, MAX seems to trigger HDR10 on my TV. BTW, needless to say that official apps shows the content fine.

[matthuisman]

Won't be anything I càn do on my side unfortunately. Once we see the manifest to Kodi, it's up to it

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[pmsobrado]

Do you think opening an issue on the inputstream adaptative repo would make any difference? Is it just me, or Fire TV users?

[pmsobrado]

Actually, some time ago I (and others) had a somehow similar problem:

xbmc/inputstream.adaptive#1197
Sandmann79/xbmc#676

IIRC, updating inputstream adaptative (and my Kodi from 19 to 20) fixed it, something was not well implemented with Amazon data received.

I think this is a similar problem, but I get the feeling (I'm not talking about you @matthuisman, but in general) that no one wants to stop to investigate this. I would, but I have no idea how to debug this, or how the data is received, or how Kodi and its addons work... and I know no one is getting money for this work, and of course I am in no position to demand anything, and I don't want to, but people who develops addons for VOD platforms, or the developers of the inputstream adaptive addon, could care a little about if the products they develop are working correctly or not.

For the time being, I would like to know if it's just me or there are more affected users. I'll probably post on inputstream adaptative repo, and check if someone there as a clue.

In any case, thanks for replying!