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Old 22nd October 2021, 01:36   #21  |  Link
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Well this is unfortunate. The decoder in the FireTV Stick 4K Max is not applying film grain on playback.
Has anyone checked if others supporting the Main profile do apply it?
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Old 22nd October 2021, 04:21   #22  |  Link
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Well this is unfortunate. The decoder in the FireTV Stick 4K Max is not applying film grain on playback.
Has anyone checked if others supporting the Main profile do apply it?
It's not applying the FGS filter, even though the AV1 bitstream is flagged with it?

If you can get me a repro file, I can get someone to take a look.
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Amlogic A311D2 supports 8K AV1 @24p/4K 60p: https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/10...ssor-16gb-ram/
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It's not applying the FGS filter, even though the AV1 bitstream is flagged with it?

If you can get me a repro file, I can get someone to take a look.
Yes that's right. I tested it with a libaom encoded file that has film grain params in the stream, but there is only one set that is repeated for all the frames.

You can find the file here: https://mega.nz/file/wR0AmY7K#eG3IIc...gBOAcLEeVfJwh0

I've played it with both Kodi and https://github.com/moneytoo/Player, both of which use the hardware decoder (JustPlayer uses ExoPlayer) and result in no grain application.
While mpv for Android is in software and applies the grain.

I'll have to test with a complete grain table to see if it makes a difference.
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Old 27th October 2021, 01:54   #25  |  Link
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Yes that's right. I tested it with a libaom encoded file that has film grain params in the stream, but there is only one set that is repeated for all the frames.

You can find the file here: https://mega.nz/file/wR0AmY7K#eG3IIc...gBOAcLEeVfJwh0

I've played it with both Kodi and https://github.com/moneytoo/Player, both of which use the hardware decoder (JustPlayer uses ExoPlayer) and result in no grain application.
While mpv for Android is in software and applies the grain.

I'll have to test with a complete grain table to see if it makes a difference.
Thank you. It is being investigated. There was a Broadcom SDK issue (I believe fixed in the latest updates) that I know impacted some AV1 FGS decode, so it might be related to that.
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Amlogic A311D2 supports 8K AV1 @24p/4K 60p: https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/10...ssor-16gb-ram/
If you read the article fully it mentions that 8K video output is not supported despite being able to decode video at that resolution.

Apparently 8K output is expected on the long awaited S908X which may be a bit beefier with A76/A55 cores instead vs A311D2's A73/A53 core configuration.
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Fire TV Stick 4K Max uses Broadcom SoC?
According to Wikipedia, its CPU is Mediatek MT8696.

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Thank you. It is being investigated. There was a Broadcom SDK issue (I believe fixed in the latest updates) that I know impacted some AV1 FGS decode, so it might be related to that.
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I'm pretty sure it's Mediatek, all the MediaCodec decoders advertised are MTK.
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If you read the article fully it mentions that 8K video output is not supported despite being able to decode video at that resolution.

Apparently 8K output is expected on the long awaited S908X which may be a bit beefier with A76/A55 cores instead vs A311D2's A73/A53 core configuration.
FWIW, it's not like 8K video is happening any year soon (no evidence yet that humans can see any difference between 4K and 8K in moving picture content). And 8K TVs typically have very advanced upsamplers in them, so it's probably better to feed native 4K to them and let the TV take it up to 8K.
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AMD Unveils 6nm Ryzen 6000 ‘Rembrandt’ Chips With Zen 3+, RDNA2 and DDR5

AMD's new mobile CPUs (with Zen 3+ and RDNA 2 architectures) support AV1 hardware decode.

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Yet their newly announced lower end 6500 series discrete GPUs lack hardware decode!
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Yet their newly announced lower end 6500 series discrete GPUs lack hardware decode!
No discreet decode hardware for anything?

That would break a lot of things, including anything with a hardware DRM requirement.
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They lack AV1 decode specifically

Curiously they also gimped hardware AVC and HEVC encoding on these products, which didn't make any sense to me.
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They lack AV1 decode specifically

Curiously they also gimped hardware AVC and HEVC encoding on these products, which didn't make any sense to me.
How gimped?
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How gimped?
I think "gimped" as in "removed".
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It's not clear if the hardware encoders are still present, or restricted to 1080p..
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How gimped?
i think i read that they removed h265 hardware encoding.
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It's not clear if the hardware encoders are still present, or restricted to 1080p..
Ugh.

I can kind of get why they might; HW encoders are mainly used for videoconferencing stuff in practice, where 1080p is a stretch goal. I've maybe used the HW encoders is my a6000 GPU three times ever.
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7 months have passed and the FireTV Stick 4K Max still doesn't do film grain synthesis correctly on playback.
At this point I've yet to watch anything in AV1 because of this.

I also don't think it supports AV1 through Netflix yet, but I haven't been subscribed for a couple months now.
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@quietvoid I would like to test it on my firetv max. Are there publicly available samples with film grain synthesis to download anywhere? AV1 works with Kodi 20 (dev version) btw.

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Found your link https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.p...16#post1955516
Hmm yeah I don't see any generated noise in Kodi.

EDIT2
Looks correct in VLC, but not sure if HW accelerated...
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