Q10 Pro - Wrapper vs. Kodi player

[edge78]

Hi,

Could someone explain in few words what are differences between Wrapper and built-in Kodi player?

Does Kodi player plays 4K content? 7.1 audio? or is it just Wrapper that supports it.

Thanks.

[Phil181]

Kodi will not natively play what you want....
The wrapper allows you to use Kodi as a library for content and to shell out (seamlessly) to the in-built MediaCenter player which can play 7.1 audio, UHD and framepacked 3D content once a video is selected.  When playing is stopped, it goes back to Kodi.

[edge78]

Thank you.

What I noticed (differences of using internal Kodi player on Kodi 17.6 against Himedia player):

- 4K HDR movies plays fine on both Kodi player and Himedia player;
- 3D bluray - wouldn't know, sorry :-)
- HD audio is not properly passthrough - my AVR receives 2.0 PCM only, although all options are properly set (wrapper passthrough works correctly with all sorts of streams including newest Dolby Atmos and DTS:X);
- Hi-Media player randomly save timestamp of interrupted movie (sometimes it resumes later from the position it was stopped, sometimes it doesn't - very annoying). There is no such behaviour from Kodi player;
- Hi-Media player sometimes pausing a movie during wathing and leaveas me with totally black screen. The solution is to stop a movie and start it again (only from the beginning, because in this case timestamp is never saved) - it happened to me 3 times during 3 week period.

[Mount81]

Black screen: are you CFW? Going to OFW 2.0.6 solved the "Black Screen" issue for me.

[edge78]

I am on OFW 2.0.6.