I used to have an HTPC with Kodi, until I switched to Plex because I did want to get rid of the HTPC.
So when I use the Plex app on my Samsung TV then playback is silky smooth, but my TV can’t do DTS-HD/TrueHD pass-through.
So I bought a Shield TV Pro where DTS-HD / TrueHD pass-through works fine! HOWEVER even though the Shield does change the refresh rate correctly, I still get occasional stutter as if a frame gets dropped about every 10 seconds (I did disable AI scaling). Which is annoying!
And then there is the whole s*it show with Netflix, Disney+, … not automatically changing refreshrates on the shield at all (that refresh rate app from the playstore only works with Netflix, same for the nvidia beta feature, all other streaming apps crash when you change the RR).
So I have to use all these streaming apps on the Samsung TV because on the shield it is unbearable.
So all streaming apps work nicely on my Samsung TV, but I don’t have DTS-HD / TrueHD pass-through then.
While on the shield I have pass through but the video stutters… fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff**k
Long story short, is there really still no alternative to the nvidia shield pro???
I am seriously considering to buy a new TV which does DTS-HD/TrueHD pass through…
If you also want to take advantage of proper HDR support along with Dolby Vision, then indeed, the Shield 2019 Pro is currently the only client that does it all…
However, if you are not interested in Dolby Vision, then of course the HTPC with either PMP or the new HTPC app, or even the new Desktop based app, all will happily pass through every audio codec there is.
Plex are even working on “proper HDR support” for the new HTPC app, which hopefully shouldn’t be too long.
What I want to know is…
Why is this happening for you? … I have been running the Shield 2019 Pro since December and have never seen the video stutter, not once!
So this implies that perhaps there is a setting somewhere on your system that needs to be looked at, as the Shield certainly shouldn’t be doing that.
As far as I know, this is indeed the case. No TV will can yet pass through HD audio from the internal apps… But I still find this bizzare!
Why is that? Shouldn’t a Samsung QE65Q90T with eARC work (according to the manual it should as eARC enables passing DTS-HD and TrueHD through)?
The problem I have with mine is that it only has “ARC” not eARC
Oh… wow…
I have no idea. I went through many forums, tried everything I could think of, reset the device multiple times, etc.
But still there is like a dropped frame every 10 seconds when I use plex on the shield.
This does not occur with the Plex app on the samsung, it does not occur when I use the HTPC with Kodi to play the same movie stored on the same local NAS.
I also made sure that the Samsung picture settings (smoothing/de-jitter) are the same for the Plex app and when using the shield.
Tried to hook the shield up to a different port on my Onkyo A/V, tried to connect it directly to the box of the Samsung TV, nothing helps to get rid of that hiccup, tried every setting the player section inside the plex app has to offer, …
As I said, the shield changes the refresh rate to match the frame rate of the video nicely - with Plex(the issue is that this does not work with Netflix, PrimeVideo, DisneyPlus which have content that uses a wide range of different frame rates - so locking the Shield at 24Hz is no option either way).
But as I said in the first post, even though Plex on the shield changes the refresh rate correctly, I still get a stutter about every 10seconds like dropped frame.
This only occurs when Plex runs on the shield, it does not occur with the Plex app on the Samsung TV, nor does Kodi have that issue on the HTPC.
A new Apple TV was just announced yesterday. Guess I will wait and see if that one does what I need. IIRC the current ATV cannot do TrueHD, dts-hd Pass-through.
