Grey bars in widescreen
#1
Hi, not sure if this is the right place for this but I have been using kodi on my Amazon fire stick fine but today films in wide screen have grey rather than black are top & bottom. When watching in 4:3 the bars left & right are black & watching wide screen films on my bluray player has normal black bars. Anyone else experienced this? Haven't tried a full reinstall yet. & its with confluence build.
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#2
This may be an easy fix, but can't seem to find it. I used to watch movies and a black bar showed up on the top and bottom. For some reason those bars are now gray and I'd like to change them back to black.

Please help.

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#3
Yes, I discovered the same thing today on my player. I hate it because when I turn off the lights the grey bar is still bright and takes away from the movie/show.

Using Amazon Fire TV to run and Kodi 16.1
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#4
Sounds like a color space issue.
Try turning on or off 'Use limited color range (16-235)' in settings.
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#5
(2016-11-27, 02:15)brazen1 Wrote: Sounds like a color space issue.
Try turning on or off 'Use limited color range (16-235)' in settings.

Good luck. Nobody has implemented this for Android yet.
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#6
I'm seeing this too - and it's particularly odd because it seems to have started today (had black bars yesterday) -- Has something changed overnight last night (Sat 26th Nov)?

I've tried all sorts of things on the TV thinking it might be a setting there, but no, it is definitely a Kodi thing.
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#7
I thought I was the only one -- I'm, getting this on Kodi on an Amazon Firestick. It was fine until today (Sunday 27th) -- not sure if there was an update overnight... Anyway, I'd like a setting to make it black again.
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#8
I've merged the two threads together as we don't need two side by side talking about the same thing.
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#9
Where are you guys getting your sources from ? Are your movies local or from some add-on ?
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#10
From an addon. Tried several. I even updated Kodi to 17... So I suspect the Amazon fire stick might be the problem.
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#11
(2016-11-27, 19:21)warmtoe Wrote: From an addon. Tried several. I even updated Kodi to 17... So I suspect the Amazon fire stick might be the problem.

I suspect the add-on(s) might be the problem. Try playing a local source and see if the issue persists.
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#12
Good thought... I'll try that.
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#13
(2016-11-27, 19:21)warmtoe Wrote: From an addon. Tried several. I even updated Kodi to 17... So I suspect the Amazon fire stick might be the problem.

Which add-ons, dare one ask?
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#14
Did anyone find a solution to this?
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#15
Silence usually means it's the (mystery) add-on
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