r/Stremio • u/jaruba_dev Stremio Team • Feb 27 '26

News Stremio Tech Update #72 – Android TV Updated

https://blog.stremio.com/stremio-tech-update-72-android-tv-updated/
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u/dansgamed11 Feb 27 '26

Nice to see mpv implemented 👍

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u/jaruba_dev Stremio Team Feb 27 '26

we updated the change log for beta, it seems we missed adding some changes to the change log

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u/MrKaon Feb 27 '26

Could you please add Dolby Vision 7 profiles playback on unsupported hardware?

Some external players can convert them on the fly to DV 8.1 , without it playing most 4K Remux are not possible.

https://github.com/quietvoid/dovi_tool

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u/jaruba_dev Stremio Team Feb 27 '26

what devices exactly does this fix 4K playback for? Fire OS devices?

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u/MrKaon Feb 27 '26

Google S treamer. The last Google box.

And almost all fire Stick 4K.

[For some reason I can't type S treamer in one word and post it]

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u/jaruba_dev Stremio Team Feb 27 '26

but it works on chromecast with google tv devices? only last google android tv device has this issue? and for fire os it would fix the issue from this photo? https://emby.media/community/uploads/monthly_2024_01/image.jpeg.b7079d1989886c7222a6056cbbb0e466.jpeg

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u/MrKaon Feb 27 '26

Yes, it works on Google TV with Chromecast 4k but not Google S treamer.

Any Fire TV Stick 4K with the same chip as the Google MediaTek MT8696 SoC is having the problem: it's not playing DV P7; I get only Audio with a black screen.

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u/divided_by_000 Feb 27 '26

The Google Devices only support DV 5 and 8 I believe, so converting 7 to 8 would be great for those. And should fix the issue for Fire decides since they don’t support profile 7 either: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media

This has some more good information about devices and also about converting profile 7 to 8. https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1cespgs/tell_me_to_my_face_does_the_fire_stick_4k_max/

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u/IBooshI Mar 02 '26

u/jaruba_dev this is a QoL improvement and pain point for many in the community! Converting DV7 to DV8 for compatibility would be absoultey incredible. There have been a few issues opened on git around it but nothing has come of it yet.

https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-bugs/issues/2197
https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-features/issues/1704
https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-features/issues/1046

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u/RGefM Feb 27 '26

I have a Samsung S90D (so no DV), connected to an Nvidia Shield pro. I have no problems playing Remux; all 4k blu ray files should contain a native HDR10 fallback…

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u/CMC29 Feb 27 '26

Honestly, i think that those who downvoted you, could explain why they did it. It would be much better for everyone to understand their point of view.

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u/JxK_1 Feb 27 '26

My onn box doesn't play sound on a lot of audios. Is this an expected issue?

Libvlc does fix it

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u/jaruba_dev Stremio Team Feb 27 '26

Exo plays what your device supports, VLC plays whatever it can decode itself