720p plays at 1280x1024

Help and Support Vero 4K / Vero 4K +
1

Hi,

Suddenly my vero 4k+ plays 720p at 1280x1024/60. I’m using whitelisting but i have used the same settings for a long time.
Btw the grab-logs function wont give me a unique id…

osmc@osmc:~$ grab-logs -A
Logs successfully uploaded.
Logs available at https://paste.osmc.tv/<html>

media info.

Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 158 MiB
Duration : 23 min 7 s
Overall bit rate : 953 kb/s
Writing application : Lavf58.30.100
Writing library : Lavf58.30.100
ErrorDetectionType : Per level 1

Video
ID : 1
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main 10@L3.1@Main
Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Duration : 23 min 7 s
Bit rate : 1 477 kb/s
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 10 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.067
Stream size : 244 MiB
Writing library : x265 3.1+11-de920e0a3183:[Windows][GCC 9.1.1][64 bit] 10bit
Encoding settings : cpuid=1111039 / frame-threads=4 / numa-pools=16 / wpp / no-pmode / no-pme / no-psnr / no-ssim / log-level=2 / input-csp=1 / input-res=1280x720 / interlace=0 / total-frames=0 / level-idc=0 / high-tier=1 / uhd-bd=0 / ref=1 / no-allow-non-conformance / no-repeat-headers / annexb / no-aud / no-hrd / info / hash=0 / no-temporal-layers / open-gop / min-keyint=23 / keyint=250 / gop-lookahead=0 / bframes=3 / b-adapt=0 / b-pyramid / bframe-bias=0 / rc-lookahead=5 / lookahead-slices=4 / scenecut=0 / radl=0 / no-splice / no-intra-refresh / ctu=32 / min-cu-size=16 / no-rect / no-amp / max-tu-size=32 / tu-inter-depth=1 / tu-intra-depth=1 / limit-tu=0 / rdoq-level=0 / dynamic-rd=0.00 / no-ssim-rd / no-signhide / no-tskip / nr-intra=0 / nr-inter=0 / no-constrained-intra / strong-intra-smoothing / max-merge=2 / limit-refs=0 / no-limit-modes / me=0 / subme=0 / merange=57 / temporal-mvp / no-hme / no-weightp / no-weightb / no-analyze-src-pics / deblock=0:0 / no-sao / no-sao-non-deblock / rd=2 / early-skip / rskip / fast-intra / no-tskip-fast / no-cu-lossless / no-b-intra / no-splitrd-skip / rdpenalty=0 / psy-rd=2.00 / psy-rdoq=0.00 / no-rd-refine / no-lossless / cbqpoffs=0 / crqpoffs=0 / rc=crf / crf=22.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpstep=4 / stats-write=0 / stats-read=0 / ipratio=1.40 / pbratio=1.30 / aq-mode=1 / aq-strength=0.00 / cutree / zone-count=0 / no-strict-cbr / qg-size=32 / no-rc-grain / qpmax=69 / qpmin=0 / no-const-vbv / sar=1 / overscan=0 / videoformat=5 / range=0 / colorprim=2 / transfer=2 / colormatrix=2 / chromaloc=0 / display-window=0cll=0,0 / min-luma=0 / max-luma=1023 / log2-max-poc-lsb=8 / vui-timing-info / vui-hrd-info / slices=1 / no-opt-qp-pps / no-opt-ref-list-length-pps / no-multi-pass-opt-rps / scenecut-bias=0.05 / no-opt-cu-delta-qp / no-aq-motion / no-hdr / no-hdr-opt / no-dhdr10-opt / no-idr-recovery-sei / analysis-reuse-level=5 / scale-factor=0 / refine-intra=0 / refine-inter=0 / refine-mv=0 / refine-ctu-distortion=0 / no-limit-sao / ctu-info=0 / no-lowpass-dct / refine-analysis-type=0 / copy-pic=1 / max-ausize-factor=1.0 / no-dynamic-refine / no-single-sei / no-hevc-aq / no-svt / no-field / qp-adaptation-range=1.00
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited

Audio
ID : 2
Format : E-AC-3
Format/Info : Enhanced AC-3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital Plus
Codec ID : A_EAC3
Duration : 23 min 7 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 256 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Bit depth : 32 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 6 ms
Stream size : 42.3 MiB (27%)
Title : English
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text
ID : 3
Format : ASS
Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Duration : 22 min 59 s
Bit rate : 112 b/s
Count of elements : 605
Compression mode : Lossless
Stream size : 18.9 KiB (0%)
Title : English
Writing library : Lavc58.55.100 ssa
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

2

Your logs must be too big. Re-boot twice and try again.

3

thank you.

https://paste.osmc.tv/wavepekala

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Whitelist: 
    800x600: 59.94p, 60p
    720x576: 50p
    640x480: 59.94p, 60p
  4096x2160: 23.976p, 24p
  3840x2160: 23.976p, 24p, 50p, 59.94p, 60p
  1920x1080: 23.976p, 24p, 50p, 59.94p, 60p
  1680x1050: 59.94p, 60p
   1600x900: 59.94p, 60p
   1280x720: 50p
  1280x1024: 59.94p, 60p
   1152x864: 75p
   1024x768: 59.94p, 60p

Get rid of 800x600, 1280x1024, 1680x1050, 1600x900, 1152x864 and 1024x768. These are ‘VESA’ modes and you shouldn’t need them.

If you whitelist 1280x720p60hz and you have the 3:2 pulldown option on (which you do) your video will play at that. If you leave 1280x720p60 off the whitelist, your video will play at 1080p24hz which would be better I would think.

5

Thank you!!
Great support!

6

Just to nitpick a teensy bit, the video is 720p/23.98fps, so you’ll need to play it at either 1080p/23.98Hz or 720p/59.94Hz. On some displays 60Hz and 59.94Hz are separate modes, and the same applies to 24Hz and 23.98Hz.

I agree with Graham that playing the video at 1080p/23.98 will probably be more pleasing than playing it at 720p/59.94, but it may be better to achieve this by actually de-whitelisting 720p/59.94 rather than by unchecking the 3:2 pull-down checkbox. It depends on whether you ever watch actual 720p/59.94fps material, and on whether you ever watch 480p/23.98fps stuff. With the box unchecked, 480p/23.98 stuff will be upscaled to 1080p/23.98, and that doesn’t look so good, IMO. De-whitelisting 720p/59.94 avoids that problem, but obviously causes problems of its own if you actually watch 720p/59.94Hz stuff.

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I’ve always wondered why Kodi lists them separately. The HDMI standard requires sinks to support both f and f/1.001 if either are supported. There’s no distinction in the VIC numbers and no way for a sink to signal it cannot handle fractional rates. In fact, if we see the whole-number supported we automatically add the corresponding fractional rate so it all seems like a waste of time to make the distinction.