Picture darkening then lighting back and forth

MitreBin

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OK, this has driven me crazy for a week. Have a Minix U22-XJ with Kodi Leia 18.9, Just watched a TV show and all through it, it kept darkening and then lighting back to original!! It only does it in the "videos" and "TV Shows" selection. If I pick "Movies" the movie plays perfectly with no change in picture quality. My TV is a TCL C55 4K. FTA TV doesn't do it so I don't think its any TV settings.
Looked at the Minix and Android settings in it, but cannot see anything standing out as the problem.
Any suggestions?
 
Couple of questions and a couple of things to try.

Does the picture just dim or go entirely black?
Does it come back on of it's own accord or when you use the remote?
Are you getting this outside of Kodi using other apps and or video players?

Things worth trying:-

Within Kodi go into System => Settings => Player => (make sure you are in expert settings) then toggle Allow hardware acceleration- MediaCodec (Surface) and Allow hardware acceleration-- MediaCodec; and see if that fixes the problem.

Also worth clearing the Kodi cache.
 
Thanks Johno
It just goes dim(mer) and comes back of it's own accord.
thanks I'll try those settings and let you know
 
No, I have no other media players with HDR capability. I am using Kodi Leia V18.9 as my media player on the U22.
But I'm seriously thinking of selling it on ebay from Sunday 29th Nov! Just sick of "Fannying" around with the bloody thing !!
 
No, I have no other media players with HDR capability. I am using Kodi Leia V18.9 as my media player on the U22.
But I'm seriously thinking of selling it on ebay from Sunday 29th Nov! Just sick of "Fannying" around with the bloody thing !!

Try VLC or MX Player, they're simple enough to install & use, & both include some additional advanced options should you require them too.

It may at least give you an idea if your problem is universal or app specific ;).
 
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