Posts by mooncaptain

Fixed the problem by changing the default settings in Settings/Player/Language. I set Preferred Audio and Preferred Subtitle to English and now all videos startup with Subtitles enabled - since I already selected that previously.

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Thanks for the information. I think I'll wait to upgrade until LE Final - and then only when the Emby addon is working with it. I can live with turning on subtitles. Otherwise I'm good with everything LE.

Above is no longer the case I did upgrade as indicated in Signature and now I will go to the Kodi forum since the sticky Subtitle setting isn't working.

Thanks for your help.

http://log

Here's the log.

Turned on debugging.

Rebooted.

Played a TV episode.

Subtitles were off.

Turned on subtitles.

Selected "Set as default..."

Confirmed that request.

Selected Close.

Subtitles worked as expected.

Played video for a few more seconds.

Stopped video.

Restarted video subtitles didn't display.

This happens all the time for any video.

The config.txt adjustment helped a small bit. However, I finally figured out the TV adjustments that helped to the point where the images in almost all cases looks good. The picture modes on this old Vizio don't include an "auto" but there are settings like Vivid, Standard, etc. including Calibrated so I picked Vivid and tweaked the brightness and contrast to tone it down a bit.

Thanks for the help

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Not sure which LE version you use, so this setting belongs to config.txt (older versions) or cmdline.txt (newer versions).

OK - I updated my signature to include LE 9.2.6 and Kodi 18.9 - I haven't upgraded because the Emby add-on hasn't been released yet - just Beta last I looked.

I looked in /flash and found a copy of both config.txt and cmdline.txt - since I've got to go to work instead of hacking around in both files I'll just ask - which one should I edit?

I am trying to get video playback brighter.

I'm running LE on an RIP4b into an HD TV over HDMI. Hooked up to the same TV I have a ROKU running Emby player. Playing the same video in both LE and Roku Emby the Roku playback is much brighter (but really what I would consider normal) especially problematic are night scenes where a lot of contrast and detail is lost.

I have messed around with the brightness settings on the TV that helps some but then the daylight scenes start to bleach out some.

In LE I have turned MMAL on and off - no difference.

Don't know any other settings to try.

I also re encoded the h265 files to h264 to see if that made a difference . It didn't.

Are there settings I can put into settings files that can help with this problem?

Thank you for the information. I do have x264 and h264 encoded files that MMAL does support but these files have the problem with fast forwarding. Since I have found a solution i'll stick with that.

Thanks again

OK - questions from now on.

By using visualizations but not fanart, animated backgrounds or scrolling titles I can play long playing lists and tracks.

Power saving option was turning off screen after 10 minutes. I don't know if that is the default for LE or I set it up right after installation.

After playing music for 10 minutes or so the video connection is turned off. Since I am using HDMI to TV and from there to my sound system I lose the the audio from the playlist.

I am running a Pi4 with 2GB of ram. SD card for OS. Emby server + nas for data storage, Pi4 is mounted in a Flirc all aluminum case. No fan.

I was having a display freeze problem when I used fast forward during video playback. The whole display would lock up but I could still access the system with SSH. Still required a reboot to get control through the user interface.

I turned off Allow Hardware acceleration MMAL and then fast forwarding worked just fine.

While using fast forward debug is on. I see CPU usage on one of the CPU's runs at 100% while the other 3 are in the teens or lower. After some seconds the high activity moves to a different CPU. I suppose this is happening to manage heat dissipation.

stepping through replay speeds (1x,2x...32x) on the 1080p video I see a range of cputemp readings from 40c to 46c.

All this is really great. I can't imagine that I would see a better heat profile even if MMAL worked so I will leave hardware acceleration off.