2021-01-12, 02:40
Hi @fandangos
thank you so much! I made some further tests with real movies and your latest build.
This is an amazing workaround. I didn’t had to do any HDMI reset, Shield or Kodi restart. It’s the most stable version ever. I only checked real movies. No tests with files which profile-/file-combination does not exist in real life.
Here you find my test results:
1st test with Kodi default settings (changed nothing)
P7FEL-23.976-AC3.mkv
P7MEL-23.976-AC3.mkv
P7MEL-59.940-TrueHD.mkv
P7FEL-23.976-AC3.mkv / P7MEL-23.976-AC3.mkv / P7MEL-59.940-TrueHD.mkv alternately
2nd test with Kodi fully configured (adjust refresh rate on start / stop, resolution 3840x2160p, refresh rate 50.00, refresh delay off, whitelist 4k only -> without half rates, allow double refresh rates active, audio 5.1, passthrough enabled)
P7FEL-23.976-AC3.mkv / P7MEL-23.976-AC3.mkv / P7MEL-59.940-TrueHD.mkv alternately
Conclusion
It’s still sporadic and I can’t find a reproducability. But for the moment I can live with that. Very nice!
BUT: I played my three movies for some minutes and I recognized some micro stuttering. Refresh rate changes work as expected. My TV shows the correct refresh rates. I also tried different refresh rate delays, but it didn't help. This was also recognized by different users in the German Kodinerds Community some days ago. I scanned the DV thread there for the first post that mentioned this issue and it was maybe introduced with the following build:
kodiapp-arm64-v8a-debug-test15.apk -> you shared the build in the following post: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid3000264
Maybe there is something you can undo.
Regards Hoppel
thank you so much! I made some further tests with real movies and your latest build.
This is an amazing workaround. I didn’t had to do any HDMI reset, Shield or Kodi restart. It’s the most stable version ever. I only checked real movies. No tests with files which profile-/file-combination does not exist in real life.
Here you find my test results:
- deinstalled your Kodi build
- installed your Kodi build
1st test with Kodi default settings (changed nothing)
P7FEL-23.976-AC3.mkv
- started the P7FEL file, played it 11secs, stopped it, waited 3secs,
- restarted the P7FEL file, played it 11secs, stopped it, waited 3secs,
- repeated the test with the same file
- faulty start after 3 tries: 2 restarts before the file played successful again
- faulty start after 5 tries: 1 restart before the file played successful again
- faulty start after 31 tries: 1 restarts before the file played successful again
P7MEL-23.976-AC3.mkv
- started the P7MEL file, played it 11secs, stopped it, waited 3secs,
- restarted the P7MEL file, played it 11secs, stopped it, waited 3secs,
- repeated the test with the same file
- faulty start after 2 tries: 1 restarts before the file played successful again
- faulty start after 3 tries: 1 restart before the file played successful again
- faulty start after 18 tries: 1 restart before the file played successful again
- faulty start after 26 tries: 1 restart before the file played successful again
- faulty start after 33 tries: 1 restart before the file played successful again
- faulty start after 43 tries: 1 restart before the file played successful again
P7MEL-59.940-TrueHD.mkv
- started the P7MEL file, played it 11secs, stopped it, waited 3secs,
- restarted the P7MEL file, played it 11secs, stopped it, waited 3secs,
- repeated the test with the same file
- faulty start after 8 tries: 2 restarts before the file played successful again
- faulty start after 41 tries: 1 restart before the file played successful again
P7FEL-23.976-AC3.mkv / P7MEL-23.976-AC3.mkv / P7MEL-59.940-TrueHD.mkv alternately
- started the P7FEL file, played it 11secs, stopped it, waited 3secs,
- started the P7MEL-23.976 file, played it 11secs, stopped it, waited 3secs
- started the P7MEL-59.940 file, played it 11secs, stopped it, waited 3secs
- repeated the test with the three files alternately
- faulty start after 18 tries: 1 restarts before the file played successful again
- faulty start after 30 tries: 1 restart before the file played successful again
- faulty start after 35 tries: 1 restart before the file played successful again
- faulty start after 45 tries: 1 restart before the file played successful again
2nd test with Kodi fully configured (adjust refresh rate on start / stop, resolution 3840x2160p, refresh rate 50.00, refresh delay off, whitelist 4k only -> without half rates, allow double refresh rates active, audio 5.1, passthrough enabled)
P7FEL-23.976-AC3.mkv / P7MEL-23.976-AC3.mkv / P7MEL-59.940-TrueHD.mkv alternately
- started the P7FEL file, played it 11secs, stopped it, waited 3secs,
- started the P7MEL-23.976 file, played it 11secs, stopped it, waited 3secs
- started the P7MEL-59.940 file, played it 11secs, stopped it, waited 3secs
- repeated the test with the three files alternately
- faulty start after 3 tries: 1 restarts before the file played successful again
- faulty start after 19 tries: 1 restart before the file played successful again
- faulty start after 40 tries: 1 restart before the file played successful again
- faulty start after 48 tries: 1 restart before the file played successful again
Conclusion
It’s still sporadic and I can’t find a reproducability. But for the moment I can live with that. Very nice!
BUT: I played my three movies for some minutes and I recognized some micro stuttering. Refresh rate changes work as expected. My TV shows the correct refresh rates. I also tried different refresh rate delays, but it didn't help. This was also recognized by different users in the German Kodinerds Community some days ago. I scanned the DV thread there for the first post that mentioned this issue and it was maybe introduced with the following build:
kodiapp-arm64-v8a-debug-test15.apk -> you shared the build in the following post: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid3000264
Maybe there is something you can undo.
Regards Hoppel