[TESTING] Improved video clock with Kodi Krypton

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Hello

There are some improvements to timing for Vero 2 that I would like to get included in Kodi Krypton. I’ve produced a test build and would appreciate feedback from anyone experiencing stuttering or slight synchronisation issues.

To get the test build, please run the following commands:

wget "https://www.dropbox.com/s/so82agvjfehzqnd/vero2-mediacenter-osmc.deb?dl=1" -O vero2-mediacenter-osmc.deb
sudo dpkg -i vero2-mediacenter-osmc.deb
sudo reboot

I’m looking forward to your feedback

Cheers

Sam

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I’m running the krypton rc and this patch broke hardware h264 playback for me.

3

Okay,

Can you post a debug log?

I didn’t have a chance to test this fully yet, but will do tomorrow evening.

Sam

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Same for me, the h264 playback is now unusable, same as i reported with VC-1

A small part of the Debug Log and if something is missing the Full Log:

Debug:
http://paste.osmc.io/iniwapacih.rb

Full:
http://paste.osmc.io/qeyiworasu

h264 with software playback works.

I am hoping for fast help :wink:

thanks

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To downgrade to the previous version I did the following:

Search the apt cache for the previous version:
sudo apt-cache show vero2-mediacenter-osmc

Choose the previous version from the list and install it. In this case I installed version 16.9.9-1
sudo apt-get install vero2-mediacenter-osmc=16.9.9-1

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Thank You :smiley:

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Is it possible to update this officiall jannuary update over the testing kodi 17 update? I already left a feedback at the testing post that there h264 hardware playback is broken and there is also no vc-1 improvement.

The software playback seems to be to slow or weak so everything is lagging also.

At the moment i cant see any of my original movies on the vero2.

Thanks

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Krypton is experimental at this stage. It won’t replace the test builds until the final version comes along.

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After i followed the tipp of Spinner it is working again for me.

Now there is a little improvement also for VC-1 files but not perfect yet.

This is what he told me to do:

To downgrade to the previous version I did the following:

Search the apt cache for the previous version:
sudo apt-cache show vero2-mediacenter-osmc

Choose the previous version from the list and install it. In this case I installed version 16.9.9-1
sudo apt-get install vero2-mediacenter-osmc=16.9.9-1

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All you have done here is remove the [Testing] video clock, an experiment, and returned to where you began. This has nothing to do with the January update.

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Ok, so i will stay at this stage for the moment cuz the Video Clock improvement made thigs even worser than better for me :wink:

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That is the whole point of testing. It’s not stable nor should you expect it to be. Sometime things will break.

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I have updated the original post with an improved build. It can be applied after the Krypton release and should improve playback for a variety of content.

Looking forward to your feedback as well as debug logs :slight_smile:

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Files no longer getting skipped, but playback is choppy and vq is low <75%

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Resolves the choppy playback at 24Hz issue reported in this thread. Seems to be working fine for me now, thanks!

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Agreed it’s mostly resolved the issue, the vq should be higher than 75% though

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Is there an objective test you are using for this, or is that your eyeballing estimate? If there’s a test then I can try it too and see if I get a similar figure.

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On the remote, press the 3 lines button, then OK and it shows the vq.

Previous builds it’s been 98%+

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Yep, about 70% reported on my test file. I’m afraid I can’t offer a comparison to what it was under Jarvis, though, I didn’t record that before upgrading. It doesn’t actually look obviously worse quality to me, but without a side-by-side comparison it would be hard to tell for sure.

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Resolves it for me too.
One question: how is your guys setting concerning ‘Adjust Display Refresh Rate’?
Did you set it to always or at start/stop?
Is start/stop “sufficient”?