Recommended Settings and other useful stuff for RTD 1619DR Players (HT PDF Updated)

It's a shame - I really wish the devs could find a way to do it..

 

I would assume that they can only import what's in the existing NFO file. No?

 

love learning new things daily. It was always a game to see if the AFR/ AR handshake would happen before the resume dialog would disappear so i could start it from the beginning. It was usually like 2 seconds before it the dialog box went away. Thanks for clarifying this. I don't think I've seen anyone else ever mention it.

 

The NFO contains the TMDB reference and the cast/crew biogs are added to the poster details page at runtime - ie when you first open the poster page by referencing TMDB.

If this is done and NFOs are exported again, the posters that have been opened previously, and biogs updated, will have those details exported in the new NFOs.

I'm sure there'd be a efficient way to, for example, query the database at runtime too and add other movies relating to that cast member. It would certainly be the icing on the cake for NFO imports.

That and updating NFOs at runtime for last played etc

 

Thanks for the clarification. I suppose what you are asking for would basically make NFO export obsolete. Those features would be nice but Kodi does all that stuff within its SQL database and probably for good reason?

 

No, it's exactly the opposite! I'm talking about creating relational links to other movies when using NFO import.

 

Sorry if I am being dense but I don't understand what you mean when you say "creating relational links to other movies when using NFO import". Do you mean that once the importing already populated NFO's creates relational database like links? What's this got to do with "other movies"?

 

hi guys i buy z9x and my tv lg oled 2021 I want the best settings

 

Take a look this thread:
http://forum.zidoo.tv/index.php?thr...ther-knowhow-for-hifi-players-playback.86336/

 

OK, I've searched all over the forum and the main site and I cannot find the IP control manual. I could have sworn that there was one on here somewhere.

Can anyone be kind enough to link me to it? I want to add some features to my TheHomeRemote remote pages.

Thanks.

 

https://www.zidoo.tv/Support/developer.html

Just be aware that although you can power off using IP, you can't power back on because the network card falls back to 10-baseT accepting magic packets only.

So if you want to rely 100% on IP control you need to implement a WOL packet as a power on.

Personally I use RS232 instead which is rock solid and accepts discrete PowerOn and Off commands.

 

Gawd bless ya and thank you! I didn't even look there so not sure if that's where I had seen it before.

Yeah, I was aware of the Power On requires IR or WOL. That's not an issue since my Monoprice HTP-1 also requires IR for a Power ON since I do not use Fast-Start.

Thanks again.

 

You're very welcome

 

Hello all, just purchased my Z9X and loving it so far.

In regards to the settings below regarding resolution:

MAIN SETTINGS

Playback/Automatic frame rate/Frame rate mode: Switch frame rate and resolution *

Display/HDR: Auto **
Display/Color Settings/4K 50~60Hz: Priority YUV420 10BIT
Display/Color Settings/4K 23~30Hz: Priority YUV444 10BIT
Display/Color Settings/Non-4K: Priority YUV444 8BIT
Display/Color Settings/HDMI Range: 16-235 ***
Display/HDMI Mode: 3840x2160p 23Hz ****

Audio/HDMI Audio: AUTO *****
Audio/Downmix HD Audio output: OFF

I have an Epson TW-9400/6050 projector and the manual advises it supports 10-12 bit YUV444. Should i set my settings to 444 12 bit instead of the 10 bit or 420 options as specified above?

Any help would be great!

 

No point - it only pads the bits so all you're doing is increasing HDMI bandwidth for no gain. Content is generally stored in 8-bits at 2K or less and 10-bits at 4K.

For Dolby Vision, output is always 12-bit 4:2:2 for Player Led (LLDV) and 8-bit RGB for TV Led and the settings above have no affect on that.

 

Thanks Mark, I'll update that and set it accordingly. As it's a projector it only supports HDR10+ and no Dolby Vision so for 4K 23-30Hz should i bother setting it to YUV444 10-bit or keep it as 422?

I've also heard a lot of talk about EDID. To set anything custom like that for my projector is that anything I need to worry about? Why would I need to set that?

 

I would set to 10-bit 4:4:4 but nothing to stop you using 4:2:2.

Unless you want to experiment with Dolby Vision, or you want to change parameters for other reasons (eg restrict HDMI bandwidth) there's no need to mess with the EDID.

 

If I set it to Player Led (LLDV) I get an 1080p output, is it because my display (LG 65E6) has only HDMI 1.4a ports?

 

Yes - LLDV uses 4:2:2 colour sub sampling and at 50~60Hz that requires the full 18GBps (600MHz) HDMI 2 bandwidth so something has to give.

If the target frame rate is 60Hz, to be honest I would have expected it to revert to 4K30 rather than 1080p60, but if the framerate is 59.940Hz then that's not an integer so it would always fall back to 1080p59.

If you set the resolution to 3840x2160P 23Hz then you should find that will output at 4K perfectly - that's how Dolby Vision was designed - to be compatible with HDMI 1.4, it's just the wheels fall off at 4K50~60

 

Actually I'm talking about 4K23.97 material. As soon as I'm activating LLDV the device outputs at 1080p. This even happens in the GUI. I set the VS10 engine to all content so the GUI gets displayed in DV and after activating LLDV the highest I can go is 1080p60 in the resolutions section. Trying to activate 4K23 reverts to 1080p60.

Things I tried:

* Connecting directly to the TV with another high-quality cable
* Activating Deep Colour Compatibility Mode
* Different priority formats for 4K 23~30 Hz modes

1080p SDR content gets output at 4K YUV 4:2:2 12bit however (the Zidoo does the upscaling) so the TV should be capable. But DV always seems to revert to RGB (That LLDV 1080p DV output is also RGB).