8.95.1 on WeTek play: Video calibration not persistent

Hi,

I started to test the new LE9 beta on a WeTek Play 1 and stumbled over a couple of issues. After investing two days of digging through the code and being stuck now, here the documentation of the potential bugs. I will open an individual thread for each issue:

On every restart of Kodi, the Video Calibration is lost. This holds true for rebooting, as well as for stopping and restarting Kodi via systemctl.

The install is a clean install (storage wiped completely).

The only special thing might be, that I'm using the CVBS output, by creating the file "disp_cap" in the userdata directory with the content of "576cvbs".

Maybe linked to this bug discussion:

Video calibration won’t survive a reboot (bump!) - Kodi - CoreELEC Forums

Workaround:

1) # systemctl stop kodi

2) edit /storage/.kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml

3) insert at the right position a new resolution element, e.g. something like this:

        <resolution>
            <description>720x576 @ 50.00i - Full Screen</description>
            <subtitles>555</subtitles>
            <pixelratio>1.126000</pixelratio>
            <overscan>
                <left>45</left>
                <top>20</top>
                <right>677</right>
                <bottom>555</bottom>
            </overscan>
        </resolution>

The important part is the "720x576 @ 50.00i - Full Screen" part, which is needed for 576cvbs.

4) # systemctl start kodi

Interesting enough, it seems you have to do this just once. From now on, you can do Video Calibration via the GUI and it will be stored and persists.

I consider this as a bug.

The bug is a bug (see first post). Not the workaround is a bug. It shouldn't be necessary that I have to edit guisettings.xml by hand at all.

I documented here the workaround as detailed as possible for the poor souls out there who will face the same *bug*.

For reference:

Video calibration settings changes are lost after Kodi restart · Issue #15165 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub

CvH: Thx.