frankguthrie
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Thanks for the report.
Try to copy your movie to an external hard drive or USB pen drive and play it localy using Kodi 18.4.
@frankguthrie you are in testing phase and like @Skynet suggested play your movies localy from external hard drive or usb flash drive.Connect external hard drive 3.0 to usb port 3.0 to test read and write.
Excellent suggestion. Should have thought about it myself working in IT as a network Engineer I forgot basic troubleshooting .
However I just had to powercycle the device as it was updating Youtube and other google related stuff. This was going for hours. After the reboot the box looked a lot better. Updating Youtube and other Google services seemed to hang. It looked like my TCP/IP stack crashed as I could not stream anymore. I think the buffering might had to do with Google Services being updated eating up bandwidth, hence the buffering. I will keep checking 4K movies and if buffering happens again, I wil put it on a USB Drive and connect it directly to the box.
BTW Can any of you help with Calibration. I want to get the best picture quality
I have set my Picture mode to Movie, because that is what I used it most for, the default was Standard:
- I haven't noticed a difference to be honest, what do you recommend? Keep Movie, or go back to Standard?
- Should I turn DNR off or keep it at the default of Medium?
- Back light 90% by default, should I push it to 100%? I always have a light next to the TV, because otherwise my eyes hurt.
When it comes to Resolution/Refresh/Color space rate:
What does the Color space setting do? I can Turn it On
By default it is on 4K 60Hz, but because I will use Kodi to stream movies, isn't 24Hz/25Hz better?
And what about Color Space settings:
It seems, from Googling, that 444 is better, but has no use for watching Movies:
https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/chroma-subsampling
Does Android TV pick the best options by default? And thus should I leave everything on what it came out of the box with? Or should I tweak the above settings a bit?