Support for VP9 hardware decoding at 4K resolution & 60 fps on Android?

[Hedda]

Hi MrMC, can you maybe confirm if MrMC media center supports VP9 hardware decoding at 2160p resolution & 60 frames per second?

See example with sample links:

http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/06/07/4k-vp9-video-playback-in-amlogic-s905x-based-nexbox-a5-android-tv-box/

4K VP9 @ 60 fps should on paper be support by both Nvidia Shield TV (GPU), the new Amlogic S905X (VPU), and the new Hi3798C V200 (VPU) SoC, but does MrMC?

[MrMC]

Need a direct link to a file to test. That example/sample links leads nowhere.

[Hedda]

Sorry no direct download link, but 4K VP9 videos can relativly easily be downloaded directly from YouTube using the youtube-dl Python script from https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ (which is also also available as a Windows executable that includes Python).

URLs to specific examples which have 4K VP9 videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vk3qJ4LwAw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6zR2T9vn2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCbir1vyUA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doa9asyxlMU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7CycuMpQ3w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UceRgEyfSsc

To use the script first find out if the video (URL) is available in VP9 2160p format:

youtube-dl URL --list-formats

Then download it using the URL together with the format code:

youtube-dl URL -f format_code

[Stane1983]

I can confirm that 4K VP9 (1st link) is working just fine on Amlogic S912, Android 7. If not working then firmware is based on old(er) SDK where some bugs are still not fixed. Amlogic also released month or so ago Marshmallow update where they fixed passtrough too. It's only up to ODMs if they will bother preparing new SDK (which I doubt).

[MrMC]

closing as working.