(2018-03-26, 17:05)Warner306 Wrote:

(2018-03-26, 05:06)mkohman Wrote: I discovered that 90% of my faults (drop outs, cutting out resolution change from 4K to 1080 and back again, blue screens etc.. ) were all down to the cable I was using..

The Ruipro cable fixed all the drop outs and blue screens I was getting after stopping playback.. That's my fault for messing around with the Amazon redmere cables I had purchased. I will be sending those back now.. The Ruipro is very good .. It detects HDR and sends the signal directly to the JVC like it should be and HDR kicks in ..

Couple of things I noticed however.. When HDR is active it automatically sets the Gamma to HDR (ST.2084) which looks stunning, however I noticed it crushes a lot of the dark and black areas.. So I experimented and changed the Gamma for HDR to B and that was a bit better for the blacks (in brought back highlights in the blacks) but the brighter scenes were not as good as when they were with (ST.2084) gamma.. Hard to explain but has anyone else experiemented with this at all? would like to know what others use for the Gamma setting with HDR content..

Also Those with HTPC.. Do you set your desktop resolution to 4K or 1080p? and what colour space are we supposed to set desktop as within the GPU? RGB Full 4:4:4 or YcBcR ? Thank you.. 

Here are some pics with Gamma at HDR (ST.2084)


and now with Gamma for HDR set to B:

You should set your desktop to RGB Full at 8-bits at 60 Hz because it is a PC not a video player. Play a video with a different refresh rate and return to the GPU control panel. Now set the bit depth to 10-bits for each video fps. You will need 10-bits for HDR to engage on your display with AMD cards. This also requires your projector's black level is set to RGB Full. 

(2018-03-26, 18:41)Bibio Wrote: use a virtual drive. these act as a dvd/bluray drive on your computer. when you click on an ISO it opens it up in the virtual drive so acts just like the disc would. kodi-dsplayer is then able to play it just like it would any disc that is not copy protected. if its supported in kodi-dsplayer as i'm under the impression that kodi-dsplayer wont open iso natively. but i could be wrong.

my advice would be to use makemkv and transfer all your iso to mkv (main title). unless that is you like to sit through the endless dribble of adverts, directors commentary, making of etc.etc. if you do then stick to iso.

i was the same as you at one point in that 90% of my stuff was ISO. trust me its well worth the effore to transfer to MKV. ISO and MKV are only ''containers'' for which the information is stored just like a zip or rar file.

(2018-03-26, 19:27)hifihedgehog Wrote:

(2018-03-26, 18:41)Bibio Wrote: use a virtual drive. these act as a dvd/bluray drive on your computer. when you click on an ISO it opens it up in the virtual drive so acts just like the disc would. kodi-dsplayer is then able to play it just like it would any disc that is not copy protected. if its supported in kodi-dsplayer as i'm under the impression that kodi-dsplayer wont open iso natively. but i could be wrong.

my advice would be to use makemkv and transfer all your iso to mkv (main title). unless that is you like to sit through the endless dribble of adverts, directors commentary, making of etc.etc. if you do then stick to iso.

i was the same as you at one point in that 90% of my stuff was ISO. trust me its well worth the effore to transfer to MKV. ISO and MKV are only ''containers'' for which the information is stored just like a zip or rar file.

Sorry, but this undesirable unless Kodi via a plugin or extension can auto mount when I select the ISO and then auto unmount upon completion or when closing the file. No conversions, either. Sorry. 

(2018-03-26, 18:00)hifihedgehog Wrote: Is there a workaround for getting DSPlayer+MadVR to play Blu-ray ISOs with the latest version of Kodi DSPlayer 17.6? I have literally over a thousand Blu-rays (nearly all are ISOs, unfortunately) and I would like to play them using DSPlayer. I just tried installing AV Splitter (last stable x86 release, since the x64 version could not even be configured), made sure it was installed with "Register Source Filter..." and "Support .bdmv..." options checked and added it in Kodi as an extra filter. Next, I also tried using AV Splitter with this media rules and filters configuration ( https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=106629&pid=1233762#pid1233762 ). Neither worked. I will most gladly offer compensation via PayPal as additional incentive to anyone who can help.

(2018-03-26, 18:53)Bibio Wrote:

(2018-03-26, 17:05)Warner306 Wrote:

(2018-03-26, 05:06)mkohman Wrote: I discovered that 90% of my faults (drop outs, cutting out resolution change from 4K to 1080 and back again, blue screens etc.. ) were all down to the cable I was using..

The Ruipro cable fixed all the drop outs and blue screens I was getting after stopping playback.. That's my fault for messing around with the Amazon redmere cables I had purchased. I will be sending those back now.. The Ruipro is very good .. It detects HDR and sends the signal directly to the JVC like it should be and HDR kicks in ..

Couple of things I noticed however.. When HDR is active it automatically sets the Gamma to HDR (ST.2084) which looks stunning, however I noticed it crushes a lot of the dark and black areas.. So I experimented and changed the Gamma for HDR to B and that was a bit better for the blacks (in brought back highlights in the blacks) but the brighter scenes were not as good as when they were with (ST.2084) gamma.. Hard to explain but has anyone else experiemented with this at all? would like to know what others use for the Gamma setting with HDR content..

Also Those with HTPC.. Do you set your desktop resolution to 4K or 1080p? and what colour space are we supposed to set desktop as within the GPU? RGB Full 4:4:4 or YcBcR ? Thank you.. 

Here are some pics with Gamma at HDR (ST.2084)


and now with Gamma for HDR set to B:

You should set your desktop to RGB Full at 8-bits at 60 Hz because it is a PC not a video player. Play a video with a different refresh rate and return to the GPU control panel. Now set the bit depth to 10-bits for each video fps. You will need 10-bits for HDR to engage on your display with AMD cards. This also requires your projector's black level is set to RGB Full.  

 i thought that was the job of LAV video filter apart from the HDR switching. LAV video sets the 'output formats' while madvr sets the aspect and refresh rate.

i was under the impression that if no 'switch rates' was set up in madvr that it uses the desktop settings. if you have set madvr up to switch to different aspects and refresh rates then this makes the desktop settings null and void and the only time it comes into play is when you return to the kodi interface or indeed your desktop. however if you have not added different aspects and refresh rates in madvr then your desktop refresh rate becomes the 'default' for all video playback.

so it matters not what you set your desktop to regarding aspect and refresh as long as you have set madvr up to switch to different ones for which madvr and lav video take over. 

(2018-03-26, 21:52)spencerjford Wrote: @hifihedgehog makemkv isn't a conversion, it's more of an extraction and reassembling the disc into an mkv.

(2018-03-26, 23:08)Warner306 Wrote:

(2018-03-26, 18:00)hifihedgehog Wrote: Is there a workaround for getting DSPlayer+MadVR to play Blu-ray ISOs with the latest version of Kodi DSPlayer 17.6? I have literally over a thousand Blu-rays (nearly all are ISOs, unfortunately) and I would like to play them using DSPlayer. I just tried installing AV Splitter (last stable x86 release, since the x64 version could not even be configured), made sure it was installed with "Register Source Filter..." and "Support .bdmv..." options checked and added it in Kodi as an extra filter. Next, I also tried using AV Splitter with this media rules and filters configuration ( https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=106629&pid=1233762#pid1233762 ). Neither worked. I will most gladly offer compensation via PayPal as additional incentive to anyone who can help.

 ISO's are not supported. You will have to use an external player. 

(2018-03-27, 16:40)mclingo Wrote: Hi, it works using stock KODI but not KODI DS.

I think ts MADVR that doesnt support ISO, if you play using standard video player it works inside DS, you might as well just use normal KODI if you cant use MADVR though. Try asking about ISO on MADVR DOOM thread,


https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=146228&page=2496