after buying my second vero the 4k+ for my new lg C8 tv.
I think I can play HDR fine since Han solo seems to play fine but after all these topics on HDR10 problems I am still investigating this.
However what really disappoints me is that I cant seem to play any 4k content that has a higher than 24fps. the video files aren’t that big only a couple gigabyte for a 30 minute video but it stutters and buffers.
I have a wired connection to a unifi switch and the content is on a new unraid server.
I tried playing from usb and external HDD. same issues.
setting the kodi interface to 3840x2160p (presumably in 60fps) does not work because tv displays: no signal.
I tried the jellyfish test on 200 that was supposed to show what the vero 4k+ was capable of but that results in 1 fps stutter.
I tried the sony samurai demo → stutter/buffering.
Is there a recommended settings info page somewhere? because the default settings out of the box obviously don’t work for me.
whats your recommended way of connecting to an unraid server? NFS or SAMBA?
I kept the gui at 1080p 60fps, simply stating that even going up to proper 4k60fps results in no output.
do you have a screenshot of where I can find that setting because I tried that I think
there are 2 options:
“Adjust Display Refresh Rate” and “Sync Playback to Display”.
To my understanding:
The first one changes the TV refresh rate (Hz) to match video (FPS).
The second one changes the video speed (FPS) to match the TV (Hz).
both dont work.
forgot to say that I tried multiple HDMI cables. one very expensive one I have for my AVR and the one shipped with the vero
EDIT How come the vero becomes so laggy in the menus after I left it on for the night? I have to reboot to remove the menu lag and after browsing my 400+ movies and 100 shows it laggy again.
It seems to bottleneck at the limited amount of memory.
I guess I will post a log tomorrow because the only thing I found was Adjust Display Refresh Rate and you are talking about Adjust Refresh Rate which I cant seem to locate. (its probably the same thing and I read it wrong…
Plus I tried that and it still stutters or it tried it and it made my Atmos stop working. Anyhow will try it tomorrow.
whats the best way in getting the rest of the issues resolved? separate threads for each issue?
laggy menu browsing
best practice connecting to unraid server ( I am searching the forums right now. fstab might be good way? otherwise I should try NFS over samba? lots of debate but not a clear answer as of yet.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to write a OSMC guide describing best practices? I mean most people probably run into these issues like refresh rate, how to connect to external share for best performance etc.
thanks Sam. will try that tomorrow and report back. I dont think that worked in my situation because its the first thing I tried yesterday when I spent a couple hours on this trying to fix it.
You can also create the mediainfo-output of the affected media file on the OSMC device:
login via SSH, user osmc, password osmc
if not already installed: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mediainfo
cdto the directory containing the video/audio material in question
since mediainfoonly needs to read the header information of the file data, copy the first 4 Mbytes of the media file to a new file: dd if="<media file>" of=purgeme.bin bs=1024 count=4096
upload the decoded media information using mediainfo purgeme.bin|paste-log
publish the returned URL here in this topic
remove the created media file snippet rm purgeme.bin
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this one same issue?
I do find it a little bit disppointing to buy a 4k PLUS that wont play all codecs… I wouldn’t have mind of the vero was 250 euro’s as long as it would play everything I download
Well you shouldn’t have any issues unless it is 10 Bit H.264 (which is only common in the Anime Scene)
But also 4k H.264 isn’t the “typical” encoding, but I think it should work.
Yea x264 8bit 4k plays fine after the improvements months ago. And as you said x264 10bit is only used in anime because it allows making the encodes even smaller ( use less bitrate ) without compromising quality. But it’s not like 8 bit encode is 1 GB and the 10 bit is 500 Mb the size difference isn’t that huge at all. But I guess since some animes have thousands of episodes it adds up
