Direct play not working on Shield

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Apple TV direct plays fine, Nvidia Shield transcodes. It is only this particular set of videos. Just wondering why the Shield is having trouble with it? Playback information says “direct play was attempted but failed, falling back to transcode”.

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Shield natively doesn’t support hi10p x264 files, Kodi software decodes those files.

The quality levels are different. Is your Shield set to 8 Mbps?

That wouldn’t matter because Shield doesn’t support hi10p, unless using Kodi plugin.

Oh, good catch. I didn’t notice it was h264.

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