[csgabe]

Problem: Videos are zoomed in when in Android settings 720p is set. This happens in Kodi 15.0 RC2. In Kodi 14.2 videos are good.
Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sb4urwsav334fe...2.jpg?dl=0
Videos are from Apple Itunes trailers addon 1080p, but I've tested other resolution sample videos the result is the same.

Hardware: Amlogic S805
Android version: Android 4.4.2
Resolution in Android settings: 720p
Resolution displayed in Kodi system info: 1080p
Kodi log:
http://xbmclogs.com/pldry35k1

[Ned Scott]

http://kodi.wiki/view/Android_FAQ#no_video

[wrxtasy]

@csgabe > Something is up with the MXQ S85 Firmware you are running the info below is not correctly reported for your AMlogic S805:

12:22:51 T:1794666080 NOTICE: Host CPU: ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l), 2 cores available
12:22:51 T:1794666080 NOTICE: Product: m201, Device: m201, Board: m201 - Manufacturer: MBX, Brand: MBX, Model: m201, Hardware: amlogic

Have a look at this log and spot the difference:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2764...C1.log.txt

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There are a couple of unofficial OpenElec releases that may improve your situation:

http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-supp...8b-and-mxq

and here:

http://amlinux.ru/image/5.0.8/OpenELEC-A...-5.0.8.zip
http://amlinux.ru/image/

Freaktab may also have some compatible Android Firmware in there somewhere.

[Koying]

12:22:51 T:1794666080 NOTICE: Host CPU: ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l), 2 cores available
12:22:51 T:1794666080 NOTICE: Product: m201, Device: m201, Board: m201 - Manufacturer: MBX, Brand: MBX,

That happens if the governor is set to the one allowing cpu's to be completely shut down and woken when needed (don't remember the value right now, "plug an play" or something, but different than "ondemand" )

[wrxtasy]

Interesting, no wonder these ARM SoC's are so power efficient in mobile devices then.

Did a bit of reading...

21: Hotplug:

The Hotplug governor performs very similarly to the OnDemand governor, with the added benefit of being more precise about how it steps down through the kernel's frequency table as the governor measures the user's CPU load. However, the Hotplug governor's defining feature is its ability to turn unused CPU cores off during periods of low CPU utilization. This is known as "hotplugging."

Some of the names of these Governors are hilarious - smoothass, Brazilainwax....

http://androidmodguide.blogspot.com.au/p/blog-page.html

[csgabe]

I've set the right permissions, still the videos are same. Before that in Kodi 14.2 I've denied root access so it couldn't fix permissions, however the videos were fine.
Anyway there is an easy fix: changing resolution to 1080p in Android settings.

[jamesh01]

Hi Ive been directed to this post I have android set to 1080 and Kodi as well and videos still not displaying correctly although all the rest of things do. Any ideas?

[csgabe]

You need to fix permissions. You can do that if you have root access,add the following lines to the end of /system/bin/set_display_mode.sh

Code:

chmod 666 /sys/class/display/mode
chmod 666 /dev/amvideo
chmod 666 /dev/amstream*
chmod 666 /sys/class/video/axis
chmod 666 /sys/class/video/screen_mode
chmod 666 /sys/class/video/disable_video
chmod 666 /sys/class/tsync/pts_pcrscr
chmod 666 /sys/class/audiodsp/digital_raw
chmod 666 /sys/class/ppmgr/ppmgr_3d_mode

Then you have to reboot.