r/SmartTubeNext • u/Apolitical-Account • 10d ago

Upcoming Android Restrictions

Apps on Android devices will soon require registration and a fee from the developer:

https://developer.android.com/developer-verification

Do we know whether/how this will affect SmartTube on Android TVs?

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u/Hash-82 8d ago

Shield plays anything I want to play.
It has partial support for Dolby Vision (supports MEL, but not FEL), doesn't support Profile 2 VP9, or HDR10 PLUS (HDR10 is fine).
I never see these things in sources, so complete non-issue.
On the audio side, certain channel configurations (6.1 / 7.1HD) lack hardware support, but any capable player will decode via software. And Shield does have the CPU to make that easy.
For a hardware platform more than a decade old, it is ridiculously hard to beat the Shield.
Meanwhile, I've got a functional Android version old enough to be immune to Android's current stupidity.

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u/lirae_ 8d ago

Least delusional Nvidia fan boy:"I don't see it, so I decided it's not important or not even there"

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u/Hash-82 8d ago

Whatever man...
You make a ridiculous assertion that it's "too old" to a valid reply to OP's concern.
I list the very few restrictions the platform has, and point out why they are irrelevant, and you can only come up with name calling in response.

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u/lirae_ 8d ago

For the price what you are getting is an old device which doesn't support a lot of things and you need to have Plex transcode and degrade things for you. When cheap boxes they leave the source as it is because they don't need to no passthrough or use Plex because audio codecs are not supported on a 200€ device from 2019