[furii]

that's what i thought as i vaguely remember you mentioning something in a post a while back.. sadly editing the guisettings.xml is not a viable solution as it seems xbmc repopulates the info on system start and video playback. as locking that down is likely to cause more problems than its worth i guess this is a bug we'll have to deal with for the time being. thanks again for all your help.

I was able to fix it by editing the settings. I think I manually shut down xbmc, edited the file and then restarted xbmc.

You can also make the change through the menus - you just have to do it for all the refresh rates you use.

Yes if you want to manually change something in guisettings.xml you need to exit xbmc first. When XBMC shuts down it seems to write the current gui based settings (ie the settings showing in XBMC itself) to guisettings.xml, overwriting any manual changes you made.

thanks, that did it. i had to do it in a hacky way since i couldn't figure out how to not have xbmc automatically restart on oe. the wiki says to touch a lock file but that doesn't seem to be respected in the current builds. so i had to edit a copy of the xml and then added lines to my autostart to swap them before xbmc started up. like i said, hacky, but it works going through the gui didn't work for me because xbmc would go from 1.001 to 0.999 and up to 1.003.

edit: apparently it's systemctl stop xbmc just in case anyone else was curious.