Downscale setting?

Help and Support Vero 4K / Vero 4K +
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Hi, is it possible to make content in lower resolutions play in their original resolution and let the tv handle the upscaling instead of the vero?

i’ve set the gui to 1280x720 at 50hz but its some content with lower resolution or framerate that I’d like the tv to upscale instead of kodi.

i got my vero 4k+ a week ago, awesome device.

2

Hi,

You can use the Whitelist Mode option in Settings -> Display to achieve this behaviour.

Sam

3

Thanks,
Is it possible to make it autoswitch to the closest matching whitelisted resolution somehow?

4

The whitelist will only show modes that your TV advertises via the EDID information. If you know how to use ssh, log into your Vero and run this command:

cat /sys/class/amhdmitx/amhdmitx0/disp_cap

and show us the output.

7

Yes, that’s exactly what it does. There is, however, a debate at Kodi over what is meant by ‘closest matching’, ie is it better to just scale the number of pixels or scale the refresh rate?

8

480p60hz
576p50hz
720p60hz
1080i60hz
1080p60hz
720p50hz
1080i50hz
1080p30hz
1080p50hz
1080p25hz
1080p24hz
2160p30hz
2160p25hz
2160p24hz
smpte24hz
smpte25hz
smpte30hz
smpte50hz
smpte60hz
smpte50hz420
smpte60hz420
2160p50hz
2160p60hz
2160p50hz420
2160p60hz420

9

oh, i see, it actually does select the correct refresh rate and comparing that list it does use the closest match of available resolutions with correct refresh rate. I fugured that it would select resolution first and refresh rate second. It makes sense that it prefer to use the matching refresh rate since that will mean that the audio can stay untouched.

Thanks for clearing it up for me.