2017-10-10, 02:43
I installed Kodi v.18 (Leia) x64 nightly today. I previously installed it months ago and had problems, mainly the skin I prefer had too many failed dependencies at the time as well as other problems with the new Kodi build itself. Today I was astonished with the results tbh. I decided to install fresh from scratch. Kodi, Titan skin for Leia, (both still under development) new madVR, LAV filters nightly, and MPC-BE nightly. Everything installed eventually with no errors. I've tested quite a few different titles using internal and external players (videoplayer, PDVD and MPC). Everything is working fine so far but I haven't done extensive testing against the few bug reports I've noticed nor advanced features. All is well how I usually use the features I'm interested in.
To the OP of the post above this one:
All the code is the same. I tested if a .ts file plays ok with the internal player. It does. Same with an external. I also added .ifo and .wmc files and they are fine as well. I see you are doing some things different than suggested like using PDVD Cinema instead of PDVD PC mode. You probably will run into problems when you deviate. Anyway, happy to report NO side effects using updated everything including latest NVidia drivers. There is no difference v.17 vs. v.18 on my end and I'm satisfied enough to keep for my daily driver even though it's still under development. No new incompatible things have occurred for me (even the x64 upgrade). Not sure why you are having problems?
Updated NVidia drivers to 387.92. HDR and advanced color switch turns on automatically now. Unfortunately it does not turn off at end of playback. Reverted back to 385.69 and all is well again. 387.92 is problematic. A simple driver reinstall to a previous version does not fix the problems it created. (oversaturation, broken dynamic HDR switching, and other symptoms) You must clean install driver 382.33. Then uninstall it and reinstall 385.69. The new Windows Fall update comes with 387.92 I think. Perhaps the next NVidia driver update will not carry over the problems? We shall see......
To the OP of the post above this one:
All the code is the same. I tested if a .ts file plays ok with the internal player. It does. Same with an external. I also added .ifo and .wmc files and they are fine as well. I see you are doing some things different than suggested like using PDVD Cinema instead of PDVD PC mode. You probably will run into problems when you deviate. Anyway, happy to report NO side effects using updated everything including latest NVidia drivers. There is no difference v.17 vs. v.18 on my end and I'm satisfied enough to keep for my daily driver even though it's still under development. No new incompatible things have occurred for me (even the x64 upgrade). Not sure why you are having problems?
Updated NVidia drivers to 387.92. HDR and advanced color switch turns on automatically now. Unfortunately it does not turn off at end of playback. Reverted back to 385.69 and all is well again. 387.92 is problematic. A simple driver reinstall to a previous version does not fix the problems it created. (oversaturation, broken dynamic HDR switching, and other symptoms) You must clean install driver 382.33. Then uninstall it and reinstall 385.69. The new Windows Fall update comes with 387.92 I think. Perhaps the next NVidia driver update will not carry over the problems? We shall see......
