Grey bars when watching video that doesn't match screen size when "use limited color range" setting is disabled

[ManMower]

@grahamh

@ManMower

If your tv has a “limited range” setting somewhere, you could try turning that on in addition to turning on kodi’s limited range setting. For me that makes the grey bars black, but for me it also messes up HDR video.

That doesn’t sound right. For me, using YCC and limited throughout works with SDR and HDR. All three of my screens expect limited range when sending YCC. One of them offers full range but only for RGB. There are so many variables, that’s why I wrote this. If you have a moment, could you read through that and let us know which bits of it don’t match your experience. And what do mean by ‘messes up HDR video’? Is this with sending HDR to an HDR screen or to to a SDR screen?

I missed that this was intended for me. What you’ve written looks like expected behaviour to me. Thanks for taking the time to write that up, as it’s a painfully confusing topic.

I’m not sure why “limited range” isn’t behaving as expected for me - perhaps that’s a local issue. I’ll retest again later tonight and see if I have better results with that than previously, I haven’t touched those settings since 2019…

I’ve retitled this ticket to better indicate the conditions under which this rather specific problem occurs.

[Herculainn1]

Quick update for posterity:
v19 update seems to have done the trick!
“Limited range” setting on or off, the black bars remain black

[sam_nazarko]

Glad to hear this!

[ManMower]

The v19 update has fixed it for me too.