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It was that very post I was replying to at the start.
I'll try ffdshow and see if I have success.
On a related note, how do you correctly specify file names as merits in the 'videoplayer merits' settings? I've got a bunch of files including the characters '[ds]'. How do I get the Kodi videoplayer to play these? I've tried just typing [ds] as a filename rule, but they still play with DSplayer.
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I always enter this manually into the playercorefactory.xml found in the userdata folder:
<playercorefactory>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule filename=".*ds.*" player="VideoPlayer" />
</rule>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>
This means "ds" must be somewhere in the filename: file.ds
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Hi everyone,
Very happy to learn that there is another alternative to the default Kodi video player with MadVR support. Today I tried to install Kodi with DS player version 17.6 32bits and MadVR but encounter some problem which I hope to get some help here.
The issue is, when MadVR is chosen as renderer Kodi crashes no matter which video I throw to it. Before crash MadVR output the ctrl+J info for one or two seconds with a black screen.
I keep all settings in DS Player default and use the internal filters. In Kodi log I don't see anything indicating the cause of the crash.
If I change to EVR everything works w/o problem, and if the same videos play fine with PotLayer and MadVR as renderer.
Any hint where should I look? Thx in advance!
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Hi everyone,
I seem to be having with some 1080p movie files.
I like to select the "automatiaclly detect black bars" in MadVR as I use that option to move subtitles into the active video area and also to zoom away very small black bars (projection setup).
This option works great with 4k files, but with certain 1080p files such as Harry Potter 3 and LOTR 1,2,3 (extended) I just have an infinite number of dropped frames when this option is selected. I would say around 50% of the 1080p files I have are affected and it's pretty random.
Note that I never seem to have this issue with 4k files My graphics card is a 1080ti which eats up 1080p files at very high NGU settings without an issue.
But I really want the option to "enable hard coded black bars" with 1080p files.
Does anyone have a solution for this or know what setting is causing this?
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Hi Warner, the subtitles are part of the MKV file I'm playing and are PGS. Disabling D3D11 didn't help.
I spent quite a few hours last night trying to find a pattern in the issue. Here's what I found.
I play 1080p files on NGU Sharp Very High. Usually no issues, but when I enable the black bar detection, render queue drops to 1-2/8 after 60 seconds of play. When I select NGU high, I found that the issue disappeared. Is this just a graphic card limitation? I'm surprised considering the 1080ti is the best card atm and I thought it would be able to milk 1080p on very high?
With 4K, I run on NGU High. Last night I found that movies filmed in 1.78:1 gave the same issue even without black bar detection. All movies filmed in this ratio (Spiderman 1, Justic League, DK Trilogy, Interstellar), led to a fall in the render queue after 60 seconds of play and infinite dropped frames.
Strangely, films that were 2.39:1 or similar plays on NGU high perfectly. Is this normal? Does it really take more processing power to work with 1.78:1 images?
If so, is there a way to set a rule in MadVR to select NGU medium with 16:9 movies and NGU high for everything else? Right now, I use a rule between 1080p and 2160p like you explain in the tutorial you referenced. I would like a rule within this to select 2160p and then determine whether it will be NGU high or low.
I hope that makes sense. Thanks Warner.