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Nice, you made it :-)
No need to ignore them, just put your TV to 1920 and all is fine.
There are some EDID tools for windows.
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2014-12-22, 16:03
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Hmm. Seems there's always a catch. :-) Now, I need to figure out how to re-enable 4k modes. I found a tool that purports to read the EDID directly, and it certainly read something that seems appropriate, however I cannot find any reference in it to the TV supporting 4k video modes. Is this because these tools are reading EDID v1.3, and not v2.0?
Of note, this software did save it as a 256-byte .BIN file. I'm tempted to edit the screen's dimensions to a proper 16x9 value, and try loading it.
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2014-12-22, 16:49
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Yeah, please try that and dcoument it! Thanks much.
PS: You can add a 4K mode via xorg.conf
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Perfect, So you did, what Sony was not able to do.
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2014-12-23, 04:02
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Yeah... for some inane reason they felt it was more important to enter the dimensionally accurate measurements of 1085 x 610 mm for both screen size and preferred resolution size (decimals aren't supported). That unfortunately works out to a 1.77868852 PAR... which is precisely 1.0005123 off from true 16x9. Close... but for Kodi, not close enough.
They should have gone with 1088 x 612 mm to maintain a proper 16x9 aspect ratio - at least for the preferred resolution timing, which is what Kodi seems to calculate PAR from. I just entered 16 x 9 there, which is exactly what the Marantz EDID you had me download uses.
Question. Does Kodi / OE in any way use the supported audio format section from the EDID? I'm guessing it doesn't, as I can still stream HD audio formats despite the EDID only indicating support for AC3 and PCM... and also since the bitstream device still shows as my Marantz receiver despite the forced EDID. Just wondering whether I should capture the EDID after it's gone through my receiver, vs before.
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2014-12-23, 06:30
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Okay, nothing to worry about then. If it ever becomes necessary, I can try to remember how I did all this!
Since these screen dimensions are actually based on the physical size of the TV (it's 49" nominal, which is what those measurements work out to), I suspect that all sizes (49, 55, 65, 70) are going to have slightly different inaccurate PARs reported. I also doubt the X850B is the only series out there to have this issue - just that the average user isn't quite as anal about perfection as me! ;-)
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While I was at it, I decided to add 1080p50 to the EDID so I didn't have to do it via xrandr modelines... and it works!
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2015-09-19, 09:49
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Okay, never mind.
Since this has obviously changed, I re-figured out how to capture the EDID after it's been through my receiver, as opposed to straight from the display (took a bit - 8 months ago I even commented on that potential issue, LOL) and, after fixing the bad PAR and adding 50hz support, I'm back in business with full HD audio.
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What exactly did change? The way edid was parsed with a kernel change? Kodi did not alter anything here.
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2015-09-19, 10:05
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Not sure. On newer builds of Kodi, HD audio formats were no longer being offered if I was using my custom EDID (which only indicates the TV's support for AC3/PCM). The settings screen only had AC3/DTS options, the rest were simply missing.
If I prevented my custom EDID from loading, the HD audio formats returned.
Now that my custom EDID is captured from the receiver, and not the TV, and includes all the receiver's audio formats, those options are once again being presented to me in Kodi.
So, looks like Kodi is in fact reading audio format support from the EDID, and hiding any formats that aren't indicated - unlike earlier, when it just presented them all and let you decide.
