(2021-04-06, 02:44)brazen1 Wrote: Why would you want to display 1080p at 1080p instead of letting it upscale? Even the Kodi GUI displays at 4k and the high resolution artwork looks great because of it. Fwiw, no one else is running into barriers with HDR/4:4:4/60Hz titles (I think there are only two in existence) with the proper settings and hardware - unless you mean games which I have zero experience with. A PC is designed to use 4:4:4. All other devices are designed to use 4:2:0/4:2:2. Setting a PC at 4:2:0 would be a step backward.
I would respond with 'why would you want to upscale something rather display it natively?'.
There is an 18Gbps barrier with HDMI 2.0b chipsets and cabling - you can have two out of three: 4K HDR/60Hz/4:4:4 but not all three unless you go to 2.1 (for 48Gbps).
And my blu-ray player defaults to 4:4:4 - it's not just for PCs.
Anyway, that's all irrelevant.
I'd like Kodi to switch to the correct resolution and frame rate. Prior to the introduction of the whitelist, it would at least switch to a suitable frame rate for all material.
Now it doesn't do that and I'm trying out different content to see what's going on.
The whitelist doesn't include common refresh rates/content rates, like 25p, so they can't be set, meaning that 25p material gets played back at whatever was set beforehand (my default is 23.976 as I watch mostly films). It used to be fine - I can't remember what Kodi switched to but it was probably 50p.
Clearing all the whitelist entries doesn't help.
My guess is that if a refresh rate isn't in the whitelist, Kodi won't switch.
Can the whitelist options be updated?
EDIT: I found the advanced settings option to override 25p to 50p, which works fine for the refresh rate issue. I think there must be a display rate option missing in Windows, as the display does 25p but it's not listed in Windows (is that why 25p is not in the Whitelist?)
Would still like to know how to get Kodi to switch to 2160p with 4K material. Windows has this resolution in its list.
