nvidia Shield - Tips & tricks [Read post #1]

Heraldoffreeent wrote: »

Yeah, I've the 2019 pro, and one minor annoyance was that on youtube, when you hit play on a video, the audio started and for about 5 seconds the video froze, then jumped to synch with the audio, since the update it now works seamlessly.

And the last bit of good news for home theater nerds: Nvidia says that older models of the Shield (2015 and 2017) are getting an option to always match the frame rate of displayed content.

Knwon Issues: Shield Experience Upgrade 8.2

This is a list of known issues on 8.2:


Black screen with audio playing while playing Dolby Vision content when the overscan compensation is enabled in Advanced display settings.
Set overscan back to fully open for now, will be fixed in next release.
Found: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/388604/shield-tv-pro-2019disneyhamilton4k-dolby-vision-/

Frame drops seen with AI upscaling enabled and overscan compensation is enabled in Advanced display settings.
Set overscan back to fully open for now, will be fixed in next release.
Found: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/395029/dropped-frames-with-ai-enhanced-upscaling-in-1080p/

Transfer files over network feature addition of SMBv3 doesn't allow users names with spaces or some characters.
For now, use user names without spaces/special characters. Will be fixed in the next release
Found: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/394826/shield-experience-upgrade-82-released-8262020/2811387/

Playing/stopping a show in Kodi dislays a toast to setup IR volume control or changes volume by +1
This is a bug in Kodi detailed here: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=351863
Found at: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/394847/i-get-a-popup-everytime-i-control-my-sound-bar-vol/2811310/

Using a fire TV remote setup to control SHIELDS volume via IR with Fixed HDMI volume enabled will generate a popup asking to setup IR volume control.
Enable IR volume control on SHIELD to stop this message even if you don't use a SHIELD remote. You can set it up for any device since it won't be used anyway.
Found: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/394847/i-get-a-popup-everytime-i-control-my-sound-bar-vol/

Live channels audio won't work and displays a message "Cannot play audio, please try another TV" on HDMI audio setups with only 2 channel support
We're looking into this, don't understand why or how to work around it yet, but will get it fixed in the next release
Found: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/395056/shield-experience-upgrade-82-broke-live-channels-a/

Somtimes when starting netflix, the intro sound is cutout.
We fixed a number of causes of this in 8.2 but there are still one or two issues left we are debugging and hope to fix in the next release.

When IR volume control is enabled and then talkback is enabled, IR volume control doesn't work.
Talkback likes to readback the volume level. IR volume control doesn't know the level of volume so it's disabled with talkback. Looking to force IR volume when talkback is enabled in the next release.

HP OMEN BFGD displays with SHIELD integrated crash in youtube on certain content
Will be fixed in next rlease

Mr.S wrote: »

SMBv3 support on 8.2 is giving me nearly double the transfer speed vs before over my network, happy days.

Very much welcome as I use the Shield as my Plex Server.

Gooey Looey wrote:

You don't need a mapper, the option to change the remote button is now in the latest firmware