Posts by HiassofT

Current theory is that the vc_image change to add 16 lines in the Jan 30 firmware is causing the issue. With the firmware before that (Jan 22) the video is rendered without artefacts.

I regularly test with a couple of HEVC videos and all these played fine on 9.2.1 and also current 9.2 development versions with latest firmware/kernel. Could be that the issue is triggered by some video properties (10bit vs 8bit / height etc) so these things can easily be missed.

One problem with the RPi video dirvers used in LE9.2 is that too many things are handled in the closed-source RPi firmware so only the RPi devs can really debug these things. As that's not ideal the current development effort is to move away from that to a fully open source video driver where everything is handled in the linux kernel. It's not finished yet but already working quite good and current LE10 test builds with it also don't have the artefact issue.

I'll report back when we get something to test from the RPi devs, until then just keep using LE 9.2.0.

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Hias

You have to create one file per mount (each one named accordingly, eg storage-movies1.mount, storage-movies2.mount etc)

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Hias

Thanks for reporting, I could reproduce the artefact issue with the sample file and narrow it down when that started. I've forwarded the info to the RPi devs (it's an RPi firmware issue) who'll look into it.

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Hias

I think you might be better off asking in the youtube addon thread on the kodi forum: YouTube Plug-in Thread

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Hias

Pro Tip: if you click on the "magnifying glass" icon on this website you can search forum posts. If you do this and enter "Hyperion" you will find a lots of posts and threads. eg this one Hyperion addon does not work with inputstream.adaptive (Netflix etc.) with Pi4

Disabling hyperion works like disabling any other addon. Go to Addons->My Addons->All Addons->Hyperion and click on "Disable".

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Hias

Hyperion doesn't cause any issues by itself. Please read through the previous threads, this has been discussed numerous times.

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Hias

Just disable hyperion before playing 4k movies. eg via the addons section.

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Hias

Please be more specific - what do you mean with "several addons"?

Personally I don't use any addons to access 4k content.

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Hias

I don't have much 4k content here (mainly HD and lower) and in the rare cases when I play that I simply disable hyperion. For netflix I simply use the native app on my TV, that works with 4k and HDR without hassles.

I also don't own a USB HDMI grabber so can't comment on that - better check out the hyperion forum, there are lots of threads about those.

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Hias

4k playback without hyperion has always been fine.

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Hias

No news in this area and AFAIK no one is working on it.

As the dispmanx grabber is going to be phased out (it won't work with the new KMS graphics driver which is the current development focus) it's highly unlikely to change and mid-term the Hyperion folks will need to implement a new grabber that's compatible with that - otherwise only USB HDMI grabbers will be the only working alternative.

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Hias

Same issue as above, delete profiles.xml.

BTW: you are running a really old build, I highly recommend updating to official LE 9.2.1 or a community build which includes kodi 18.6 - that issue should be fixed there.

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Hias

Better someone else comments on the deinterlacer and scaler methods, I'd guess the motion adaptive one should be fine.

Concerning audio delay see here: Delayed audio problem

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Hias

I've also read that on-board analog audio output level is quite low - haven't checked myself for ages though.

TBH it's best to stay away from the on-board analog audio out if possible. The quality isn't too great and the RPi has to throw in a lot of processing power (which then missed for video decoding etc) to get a somewhat acceptable quality out of the simple 1-bit dac.

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Hias

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And with regards to Deinterlace method, video scaling method?

I mean "VAAPI Bob" sounds pretty cool, but no idea if it is the right choice

I can't comment on that as I'm using RPi which has different (software only) deinterlacers.

"Bob" may sound cool but actually is a pretty simple / poor deinterlacer (have to use SW bob deinterlace here on RPi4 and deinterlaced SD material looks terrible).

The "yadif" and other deinterlacers (not sure what's actually available on PCs) should work a lot better.

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Hias

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So if i whitelist a resolution the TV handles upscaling and NOT whitelisted than Kodi will do it?

Kodi's whitelisting logic is a bit complex/confusing but, yes, basically it's this way. If you whitelist a display mode / refresh rate then Kodi can use that if "adjust display refresh rate" is enabled in the player settings (set it to "always" or "on start/stop").

So kodi can eg switch to 1080p23.9 if you play a HD movie.

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Hias

Just stick to 3840x2160 - that's the native resolution of all UHD sets (and usually marked as preferred in EDID).

Run the GUI at 50 or 60Hz and whitelist the 23.98/24/50/59.9/60 Hz modes (better NOT the 25 and 29.9/30Hz modes as that may cause havoc with interlaced content).

As for 1280x720/1920x1080 you have to check yourself if you also whitelist them (and let the TV upscale) or let kodi do the upscaling to 4k.

The LG OLEDs have pretty good scalers so I'm not really sure if kodi is able to do a better job.

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Hias