Posts by Alex24353

Quote from Flashini

What do you mean? I request you stay serious and objective so we can find out what the issue is and perhaps it's just some configuration issue. I have yet to compare my Kodi playback with Blu-Ray Player footage.

I have asked it in a separate discussion alsready. People say that its because I use 4k HDR and KODI does not support it...
So, it's nothing we can do now.
It means that the KODI becamse just a nice administrative system for me, but I have to watch thevideo via my TV's player, which apparently supports this HDR...

Dear HiassofT ,
Your explanation sounds resonable.

Any idea when RPi/KODI will support HDR?

Quote from Klojum

We are happy with the basics, Kodi itself is already some 15 yrs old.

15 years! Well, then I would expect something usable... Pity. Yesterday I got into another issue which will probably put an end in my usage of KODI: the quality of video on 4k is terribly low. It's not b/w yet, but a kind of greyish. Pity, I liked the idea of KODI, but what is the point in the great organization capacity of KODI, if it simply cannot show a movie!?
I am really sorry for this project. As a real user who does not want to code himself and who loved the idea of KODI, I installed the Pi4, and I expected it to work. It does not. The quality issue really made me sick.
15 years...unbelievable...

Quote from Da Flex

I had a similar issue on my RPi 3B+: The picture was darker than regular TV. After switching to a better PSU, the picture is as bright as TV. This is still a mystery to me, because HDMI is digital, and digital has no strong and weak signals. Probably it's about signals before HDMI.

I have a good one. 3A.

Quote from HiassofT

Check the picture settings of your TV, they can be adjusted separately for built-in players and each HDMI port - and there are separate picture settings for SDR and HDR.

That's the problem. The TV (LG) does not have anything special. The only option is "HDMI ULTRA HD Deep Color"

LG Help Library: | LG Canada

Is it relevant? I tried it ON and OFF, no effect.

And there are no settigns for the internal TV player.

And yes, both TV player and the Pi4 are playing the same content, when I compare.

I noticed that this difference is huge for 4k movies and minot for the rest

I resolved the issue: I've just recompiled the file from the original disk, and now it works.

It was nice talking to you, thank you! Looks like you guys are happy with how your sw works, and I cannot do much about it. It was my first interaction with an open source project, sorry if I couldn't manage my expectations.

Quote from Klojum

On average, three quarters of a software program is already expected to making that application 'foolproof'. You can do only so much, and a 100% bugfree application will never happen. Kodi uses a 3rd party tool ffmpeg for decoding videos. Team Kodi didn't create it, but we use it because it helps us play Kodi on just about every electronic gadget there is. There isn't much else to choose AFAIK.

Dear Klojum

Thank you for this comment. Now let me try to talk seriousely.

First of all, let's split in the context of the conversation between:

1. dealing with content bugs

2. errors in the sw code itself

Now, lets talk about it.

1. Dealing with content bugs.

Yes, the majority of the code of any program is dealing with exceptions. That's why when you mentioned that "KODI follows the books" I was not impressed. The reliable software has to overcome issues. Let me give you an example. Once I was in the car navigation cartography. And we were testing a new system from BMW/Siemens. At one crossing (where it was supposed just to drive straight) it kept on telling "please turn left and then turn right". It was really a puzzle. The crossing was just a cross! We struggled for several days until our chief engineer decided to zoom to the level of 1:1, literally. ANd then he saw that the cross was not a cross: two roads were connected like the Z letter, and its size was less than 1mm in real life! So small!!! But of course for this system it was a "turn left and then (1mm later) turn right", as it followed the books.

We tested it on all other navi systems and they did not even notice it. Not because they were stupid, but because they were on the market for many years and they were smart.

Sorry, currupted files happen. Not only because of Russians, but also – as we found with you – because of HDD (although I never have seen it myself).

You have to cope with it. You have to mature the system. It's not the question of punishing those who happen to get some russian-made video, its just the question when you do it.

2. Errors in KODI itself

In my case the Raspberry crashes on this corrupted file and the OS reboots.

Whatever happens with the tool you use, It's YOUR OS which crashes.

Sorry, this is your bug, which you have to repair.

I hope I explained my two points. But if not, I am here to comment further.

The difference is amazing! Is it possible to adjust the LibreELEC KODI?

Quote from csaba

I don't think crashing is an acceptable reaction to a problem in a video file. This needs to fixed. I experience the same problem randomly with 4k files.

Yes, that's the difference between a "Beginner" and a "Senior Executive"
8-)

Quote from Klojum

How about using proper movie files instead of remuxed videos with added black borders to a 21:9 movie like the one in Alex24353's log file, all because the russian person creating those remuxes doesn't understand what he is doing? And somewhere along the way, your download/storage of the video got corrupted on maybe drives with disk errors. Depending on the level and amount of corruption, crap videos will no longer be watchable.

Dear Klojum ,
1. You keep on blaming HDDs, download managers and even Russians. I am impressed, indeed. But, as I said, two other players do not see any "curruptions". Does it mean these players also do not know what they are doing?
2. I may agree on Russians, but when it comes to blaming HDDs... you make me worry. I use red WD disks in a RAID5 synology system. I doubt it currupts files, sorry .

My point is: if a file is readable for all other commercial viewers and is not readable for KODI, I am sure something is wrong in KODI.
I suggest you guys have a look at it.
Today it crashed two times on another 4k video. Come on, it cannot be that they are all corrupted with Russians!

Dear HiassofT and Klojum

The other players do not feel this issue at all. So, it could be an issue with the file, but they manage to cope with it. It's probably a good idea to make KODI do the same?

Dear Klojum , am I expecting any reaction?

Here it goes: http://ix.io/23nz

Hi. I use Pi4 with 4G RAM.

It crashes (start to reboot) in the middle of the 4k movie at the certain moment.

After reboot, if I try to watch the same movie, it shows exactly the same moment and starts repeating this moment (1 second of it) in a endless loop.

When I watch he same movie on a PC or via my smartTV, it works well.

I repeated it several times. It crashaes again and again.

Please advise.

Alex