Yeah sorry for causing any confusion.
Do you have a receiver between tv and minix Or the minix directly plugged to tv? If its the later then im not sure how to find what type of bit depth is being set in your setup. My guess would be 420 would be 8(24), 422 would be 10(30) and 444 would be 12(36).
I have a receiver and this info is found in its info menu. I suspect that our lg tvs dont like a 36bit output on minix and that is what causes the blinks. (On the other hand shield tv has no problem with 36bit on the same tv)
this is a good article has some color depth explanation :
https://www.benq.com/en-me/knowledg...oes-monitor-panel-bit-color-depth-matter.html
If anyone else can explain how to check the bit depth without a receiver please respond to op here it would help.
Unfortunately, not all AVRs include an actual "information" GUI/menu capable of displaying various details of any currently playing media anyway, (for those that do use them)! Some just have the basic info on the front panel itself, while others like yours have some kind of OSD with varying degrees of extra info depending on the specific make/model
.
Some TV's can also include a similar feature but the same applies.
Otherwise, to my (limited
) knowledge, options for checking the info of any currently playing media from an Android device like the U22 are very basic. If using Kodi, for example, you can press
"O" if you're using a keyboard or a remote such as the Neo A2 Lite/A3 which will bring up Kodi's
player process info if that helps a little?
Additionally, if you have a typical keyboard connected to your U22 you can press
ctrl + shift + O which will bring up the "
player debug" information too. (I've mapped the player debug info to the "apps" button for an A2 Lite while I've been testing CoreELEC with a U22 recently as obviously the apps button has no function outside of Android. A different key could be mapped for use in Android too although the info is very specific & ultimately intended for troubleshooting/debugging issues such as bottlenecks.)
One can view more information on what these features (player process info & player debug) will actually tell you in the respective Kodi wiki....
https://kodi.wiki/view/Player_process_info
CoreELEC (default skin), as another example, also includes a little extra (output) information in the player process info that includes...
Display mode, (the actual display output & FPS).
Pixel format, (output not the decoding). I.e. 10 bit, YUV 444 or 12 bit, YUV 422, etc.
EOTF & gamut. I.e. SDR BT.709 or HDR BT.2020 as applicable.
Different Kodi skins available from the official repository may also have extended information scripted in to the player process info as well. (Obviously that's a case of personal trial & error, searching for info specific to the skin or looking into them as to what info the author has scripted in to be displayed.)
Android VLC can also display some "now playing" info that Kodi doesn't have but that too is fairly basic.
Unfortunately, luxuries such as Windows (or Mac) VLC Player that is capable of providing all sorts of extra information while media is actually playing, or that has an entire suite of highly advanced controls just isn't available for leaner OSs like Android, (yet at least). One day, improbable, but who knows
?