@kjetil.kvaloe: Can you take a picture of your general settings of your LG OLED in HDR mode? (OLED Light, brightness, contrast etc). Or just give the values you have in HDR mode; OLED Light and brightness and contrast are the ones of interest.
Hei Tor Gunnar,
Iām pretty sure 10bit444 is on, I can use ācat /etc/local.rcā which returns 10bit444. (values taken from memory, might not be correct by the letter)
My marantz doesnāt show video info. But the TV accepts the video as HDR, by showing the HDR tag just after starting the video.
Iām pretty sure itās not the TV settings now. Iām normally using technicolour profile, with 100 oled-light and contrast, and 53 brightness.
I have now:
- Copied display settings ātechnicolourā from when playing internal HDR, to āall other hdmiāsā (function in the TV), and using Technicolour profile when playing HDR.
- Checked all settings inside techicolour when playing HDR, to make sure they match each other.
- Factory reset the TV, turned on āLG deep colourā(HDR) and played videos in āstandardā video mode. The vero4k HDR video was still much darker.
Playing a demo HDR from LG from the Vero 4k actually worked, having a wonderful HDR effect. The difference is the file format, and that the demo was stored locally on the vero4k.
When I get back home in a week, Iāll try to use other ways of sharing videos to the vero4k. It might be some weird file share setting, user permission, or other weird stuff.
Also, I found it strange that the program āmediainfoā (I installed on the vero4k) could not get any information about any video file from my samba share. After copying the video locally to the vero4k, mediainfo got the correct information.
All this looks good; I was more concerned that you had set oled-light to 50 or brightness to a really low value and expecting bright HDR (I have seen people doing this before).
Sharing affecting this seems little likely to be the reason, but you never know. I have both samba and NFS share without any issues.
Hope you will find a solution.
has your rc.local the x-bit set?
check with āls -l /etc/rc.localā and set it with āchmod 755 rc.localā
I think without the x-bit rc.local will not be executed during boot.
Some versions of OSMC (Stretch) did not have +x set.
This has been resolved in the last few updates, but only for new installs.
My Vero 4K
root@osmc:~# ls -l /etc/rc.local
-rw-rār-- 1 root root 305 May 8 17:41 /etc/rc.local
You need to do this
chmod +x /etc/rc.local && reboot
Already done, and now everything works as expected.
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Glad to hear this Tor
I have now compared about 10 different HDR movies and series on the vero4k vs the TVās internal player. Most videos have the problem illustrated above, while some seem good on both players. Especially demo clips seems to always work.
Iāll keep checking, but Iāll have to prioritize summer activives while the weather in Norway is still good.
Can you send me some links to clips that do work and some that donāt? Iād like to analyse colour primaries and transfer characteristics. Iām slowly building up a profile of what I consider non standard HDR.
I have the same dark HDR issue. My TV is LG OLED E7. I have been using Vero for the last 6 months. I placed the āsudo echo 444,10bit > /sys/class/amhdmitx/amhdmitx0/attrā in the rc.local the day I installed the Vero, so I have the HDR enabled.
I start to notice the issue recently, but my symptom is a bit different: the movie starts dark and after a while it turns bright (or becomes normal). I noticed it last night again, while watching a remuxed HDR movie. It played in dark mode for the first 62 minutes and it became normal afterwards.
As I said, I did not notice this issue during the first 3-4 months of Vero. Your help will be appreciated.
Please try some HDR improvements here:
Awesome!
I have tested planet earth 2 and mad max, and both looks wonderfull now.
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Glad to hear this.