Automatic Resolution Adjustment

[roddyk79]

Howdy Folks,

Just wondering if anyone else has seen an issue where XBMC will not automatically switch or adjust the resolution between the GUI and the movies native resolution? If for example the GUI is set to 720p (because for me it's just so much smoother browsing the library, etc on the Cubox-i) and then when you fire up a movie it switches to 1080p for playback? None of the builds I've tested so far seems to support this.. (OpenELEC / Geexbox) / Xbian)

Is this simply not supported in XBMC? Yes I know you can select "Adjust Refresh rate" but that only seems to work if you set your GUI to 1080p (which is slow with a lot of skins on Cubox-i)

[chewitt]

Yes, everyone has this "issue" because XBMC does not support resolution adjustment, only frequency adjustment to match the media content. XBMC remains at the resolution you configured (which for most people will be 1920x1080) and up/downscales the media appropriately. If your hardware is too weak for that 1280x720 might be better. If sticking with 1080p it may help to reduce the resolution of thumbs/fanart which can be done via advancedsettings.xml .. this helps browsing in Library etc. on slower kit.

[ix400]

I think an automatic switching to the correct resolution will become an important feature in the near future.
For example, if you have a mixture of 4k and 2k videos, you do not want to switch resolution manually all the time.

[chewitt]

Tell XBMC .. in this respect we are simply a consumer of their product/code

[ix400]

In the case someone else would like to support the corresponding feature request:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=64139&page=10