2018-03-18, 18:47
things seem to be pretty stable now as regards to kodi going to a box on the screen. fingers crossed.
things look much better with profiles especially 720 material. looks like i have a lot of corrupted files though (last burner was dying when i done them) so looks like i'll be digging the discs out again :-(
the dvd's that do work are showing days for repeated frames and flickering to no dropped frames.
bluray are around 4-5min and the occasional repeated frames, same goes for 4k.
HDR is switching in and out no problem.
for some strange reason the sound codec is not returning on the amp after stop on the player and remains for a good 5min or until i start to play another movie.
i have the amp set for stereo without anything playing but when it receives a signal such as DD-HD etc.etc it stays there then after about 5min it drops to stereo again or when i browse kodi or start another movie.
its still taking a good 5seconds for the player returning to kodi after stop when playing 4k and HD but pretty instant for SD.
next step is to set the 'display modes -> custom modes' but i'm still a bit confused as to how its done. i had a little play last night but never had the time to let a movie play for 1/2hr.
i'll investigate more with it tonight.
i found the problem with kodi not shutting down when you press exit etc.etc. this sometimes happens along with a 'path' box popping up when browsing for movies in kodi.
the culprit is networking. looks like kodi does not like it when you turn off the LAN card if you have HomeGroup enabled. my solution was to 'barr' internet access which is set a static address and no dns.
i also turned off 'get files from other computers on your network' for windows updates as i domt want anything updating when everything is configured.
i have my responsiveness back in windows. i turned off 'send problems' in the nvidia config. this helped a loooot but then i went one stage further and stopped the config app starting with windows and bam... windows is a loooot faster. if i need the config app then i can always start it from the start menu.
i also applied my 'startup' reg tweaks to start kodi when windows starts.
things look much better with profiles especially 720 material. looks like i have a lot of corrupted files though (last burner was dying when i done them) so looks like i'll be digging the discs out again :-(
the dvd's that do work are showing days for repeated frames and flickering to no dropped frames.
bluray are around 4-5min and the occasional repeated frames, same goes for 4k.
HDR is switching in and out no problem.
for some strange reason the sound codec is not returning on the amp after stop on the player and remains for a good 5min or until i start to play another movie.
i have the amp set for stereo without anything playing but when it receives a signal such as DD-HD etc.etc it stays there then after about 5min it drops to stereo again or when i browse kodi or start another movie.
its still taking a good 5seconds for the player returning to kodi after stop when playing 4k and HD but pretty instant for SD.
next step is to set the 'display modes -> custom modes' but i'm still a bit confused as to how its done. i had a little play last night but never had the time to let a movie play for 1/2hr.
i'll investigate more with it tonight.
i found the problem with kodi not shutting down when you press exit etc.etc. this sometimes happens along with a 'path' box popping up when browsing for movies in kodi.
the culprit is networking. looks like kodi does not like it when you turn off the LAN card if you have HomeGroup enabled. my solution was to 'barr' internet access which is set a static address and no dns.
i also turned off 'get files from other computers on your network' for windows updates as i domt want anything updating when everything is configured.
i have my responsiveness back in windows. i turned off 'send problems' in the nvidia config. this helped a loooot but then i went one stage further and stopped the config app starting with windows and bam... windows is a loooot faster. if i need the config app then i can always start it from the start menu.
i also applied my 'startup' reg tweaks to start kodi when windows starts.
