Watching 4k videos on a Philips Android TV

by gevreyc

I have a PHILIPS 55OLED854 since black friday.

Of course, what I like is to watch movies in UHD on my beautiful screen. However, this has not always been the perfect experience I would expect. So far, only the internal player, launched via "Network Media" is giving me the best experience. VLC or Kodi either do not work properly, or the image is not as good as with the native player. Even, the native player often stop during playback, or buffer, while the same movies play fine on a PC running VLC on the same LAN (all connected by ethernet).

Would anybody recommend another option? Software?

sperisks

Internal player laggs(suddenly freezes) for everyone on Philips android TVs. I read its something with the dolby true HD audio track. I use kodi, image is the same, believe that, go to settings and tinker some options which suites you best, especially hardware decoding and audio passthrough

Fel1sCatus

If you have your content on something that can run the plex server, you can try that and the corresponding plex player.

pyramidassembly

I've got a Philips TV and Kodi is absolutely the best player for this kind of stuff, no doubts. Try setting up a NFS share on your NAS if you're running Linux - seems to be faster than SMB

sawlight

Well you’re lucky just to manage to play network files with the native player or Kodi, only VLC works for me, not to mention the native player stretches every picture to full screen 16/9 and you can’t seek/fast forward with most formats (mp4 for instance) so when it freezes which it does a lot you’ll have to watch it back from the start.

Anyway, native player is a shame, workaround that works for me is to close background apps and vlc handles 4K HDR flawlessly.

skl321

Use MX player

gevreyc

After having been happy for a few days with Kodi, I have watched today a demo video in 4k 60fps and I have disappointed by the rendering, pale colours, no dynamic. Same with VLC.
I tried the same file with the Philips native player, and wow, it's brilliant, wonderful.
The main difference with Kodi and VLC, is that when I start the 4k file with the Philips player, it displays on the screen, bottom right corner: "HDR" - Kodi & VLC do not. Any idea why and if it is possible to fix that?