Quote:Usually there is a hardware switch on the power supply 60cycles or 50 cycles
Modern power supplies are working out of the box with 50Hz and 60Hz without a switch, the electronics inside do that
Quote:I would simply ask why do you have PAL media in an NTSC climate or vise versa, a re-encode of the source might handle this better.
Simple example: Amazon Video in Europe. Amazon has many US movies/series with 23.976fps or 24.000fps and many European movies with 25.000fps. Amazon doesn´t reencode US movies. In Europe you are used to be prepared for 23.976fps and 25.000fps playback in an HTPC. In US area you have the similar problem with having 23.976fps (cinema movie content) and 29.970fps (TV content) when not using 3:2 pulldown.
Quote:Feel free to say what you will, constructive criticism is always welcome.
Very glad about that!
Quote:The forum has rules, most of this claimed bad 'attitude' is really attributed to users who run banned or illegal modifications for the base code, and when the code base breaks, they come looking for support. When told their request is running contrary to the forum rules and no support is forthcoming, the bad attitude poisons the thread.
It is absolutely right to handle people like that when breaking forum rules, using pirated software and so on, nothing against that to say. Sometimes I have the feeling though, that some moderators or people that answer questions, have this attitude generally because of being nerved by these certain kind of people. I can understand that too, but when generalizing you sometimes punish the wrong people. I for myself try to help other people (definitely not with piracy and so on) and sometimes I ask for help. My topic is making the home cinema as perfect as possible from a technical point of view.
Quote:As a member in good standing of this forum, present yourself with constructive criticism, put some thought into your messages, contribute to the over-all health of the community with helpful messages and any support; your skills will allow and you will find that the community will appreciate and your contributions return in kind with respect. Kodi is such a huge effort by so many, and entertains vast aspects of the software world, that's a true wonder on the order of open source software. I encourage you to participate in the forum in a deeper way; If you wish to improve your skills, the wiki's are a wealth of information and tutorials abound and most of the group around here are more than willing to shepherd training to some degree. But to simply say the attitude of this forum is bad, is doing the community a discourtesy, this is not something warranted and speaks badly to those who try to help others.
Nice friendly words, I appreciate that!
Maybe the same fault I mentioned on the moderators side is on my side too... Generalizing. I have read many topics in this forum here and I often/sometimes saw some harsh words from the moderator´s side when criticizing parts of Kodi or making some suggestions.
Of course a user should use his own brain, use given guides, do some scripting/hacks/workarounds, work with tools like advancedsettings.xml and so on. But sometimes that all doesn´t help and then you think the only solution would be to ask the makers of Kodi to change something aka "feature request". And in many cases the translation of the answer then meant: "Take it as is or write your own addon!" We shouldn´t forget that not everybody is a coder or wants to become one. I personally can do some C and some C# coding so that I could make small GUIs and do some calculations in the background, but I wouldn´t call me a coder because of that. From a user´s point of view it would also be strange when you bring your car to a garage and the guy there proposes you learning to be a mechanic... OK, the makers of Kodi don´t get money for it, but then it is simple called a feature request. A user can friendly ask for it and it may be realized by somebody or not. But not everybody can do that. And that´s my point: The people who could do that often say: "If you want it, do it yourself." And that I don´t understand. Maybe some things are complicated, maybe time is not infinite. But often one could at least think about it rather than simple say "No.".
But ok, at the end we are all only people. And sometimes there is frustration at the moderators´ side with ungrateful "customers" and sometimes on the users´ side with arrogant moderators...
I personally will try to make my skills better of course, I´m with Kodi only for 2 years, I have learned a lot during this time, but still massive to come in the future.
BTW In my opinion the core functionality of Kodi is absolutely superb, there still remain many of these little little annoyances that could be made a little bit better. That´s more a topic of being a videophile (call it nerd) than critisizing a very good cost free software product.
