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findings:

23.976 and 24.000 are ok, not good just ok. there is some slight jitter though so I will make it my mission to resolve this. Only then I will feel happy buying a new tv knowing that it won't matter as much what tv I buy, XBMC will give me the best media experience.

30.000 is clearly the winner, if I can make all video feeds display like this I'm a happy camper. This will be my reference.

59.940 is TERRIBLE every x time the white bars get a spasm on my display. Luckily I haven't seen this in the video's on my htpc otherwise I would be crying right now

[Memphiz]

what os are you using. Seems like xbmc can't see the possible refreshrates your tv supports ( a log file would tell us what xbmc sees as possible refreshrates of the tv. Might be just an operating system setting/issue.

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I am using the OPENELEC 2.0 distro

I will try and post a log this afternoon.

thank you

[wsnipex]

did you enable "Adjust Refreshrate to match video" in system settings -> video?
the output of xbmc-xrandr would help too. Imho it should be available on openelec somewhere, not necessarily in the path though.

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wsnipex,

yes I have enabled the adjust refreshrate to match video setting.
I will first check my logfile. I'm not really known with xbmc-xrandr so I will look into that aswel.

thanks for the advice

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This is the output of xrandr. the maximum output res is 1360x768 since this still is a HD-ready tv. Hence the need for buying a new tv.

how exactly do interpret these results??


Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1360 x 768, maximum 1920 x 1920
DFP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DFP2 connected 1360x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 700mm x 392mm
1360x768 59.8*+
1920x1080 30.0 25.0
1776x1000 30.0
1280x800 60.0
1152x864 60.0
1280x768 60.4
1280x720 59.7 50.0
1024x768 75.0 70.1 60.0
1152x648 60.0
1024x579 59.6
800x600 75.0 60.3
720x576 50.0
720x480 59.9
640x480 75.0 60.0
CRT1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
CRT2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

[wsnipex]

well, there is no 24p mode, so xbmc is correct to use 60Hz on most material.

[lrusak]

to use xbmc-xrandr in openelec you need to open a SSH session and execute the following command

Code:

/usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc-xrandr

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Conclusion:

As wsnipex already said, The television set doesn't support 24p. So I started playing around with various settings. This is what I found

My resolution is set at 1360x768. This is the highest setting of the television.
Unfortunatly, in this res, the only refreshrate supported, is 60Hz (or 59.80 in reality)
XBMC will always keep it's res and change the Hz according to the abbilitys of the television.
It will never change it's output res. EVEN if the native res of the video is supported by the receiving tv.
When I however set the res to 1280x720 there is a 60Hz but also a 50Hz ability.
So when I lower the setting of the resolution. xbmc starts to be able to match the refreshrate of the tv with the video.

Victory!!! or not??
Since it's is apparently a crappy telivison. The enhancement settings automaticly kick in when the tv gets a 50Hz input. This means peoples faces become orange because of an overdose of colour and you have to fringe your eyes everytime the sun or even a reflection of it is displayed because of the extreme high contrast setting. LG calls this the XD-engine even when you set all settings to OFF in the menu. the colors are WAY different then with 60Hz input which much more acts as a input = output. Strangely all of these settings are disabled in 60Hz mode which give you a much cleaner image.

It's quite obvious now what I have to look for when buying a new TV but it isn't going to be easy. I will have to find out which refreshmodes are supported AND make shure when switching modes the tv doesn't start doing weird so called enhancement crap with it making the picture unwatchable.

Thanks everyone for the help!!