Archive:Settings legacy/Videos

Library

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Show plot for unwatched items Shows plot information for media in the Video Library that is not marked as watched. Download actor thumbnails when adding to library Gets thumbnails for actors in Library Mode, default is on. Flatten TV Shows Removes the TV show season node, toggles between "If only one season" (default), "Always" and "Never". Update library on startup Checks for new media files on XBMC startup. For automatic removal of deleted media files you need the <cleanonupdate> advancedsetting. Hide progress of library updates Hides the library scanning progress bar during scans. Clean Library... This function will perform a number of 'cleanup' tasks on your video database and can be run if you have moved, deleted or renamed files. Removes any videos with invalid paths and all information tied to these files. Removes all removable media (example: DVD) without checking for existance + all information tied to these files. Tip: XBMC puts a video in its database if you change any OSD setting while watching, resume points are also stored there. Export Video Library Exports the Video Library database to XML files. Import Video Library Imports a XML file into the Video Library database. If the entry does not exist it is appended. If it exists: It removes all current info for that entry from the database. Inserts the info for that entry from the XML file. See more here: Import - Export Library

Playback

Render Method Controls the method used by the player to process and display the video, (which is called rendering). See Here for more information on the different options. Allow hardware acceleration (DXVA2) Windows Vista / 7 only, enables native hardware acceleration of high definition material. Adjust display refresh rate to match video Activate to automatically set the refresh rate which is best matched with the video that is playing (default off). Sync playback to display This setting enables syncing the video to the refresh rate of the monitor. A/V sync method [Audio Clock, Video Clock(resample audio) or Video Clock(Drop/Dupe Audio)] Audio has to stay in sync, this can either be done by resampling, skipping/duplicating packets, or adjusting the clock if it gets out of sync too far. Resampling has the advantage that the speed of the video can be changed considerably, so 24 fps can be sped up to 25 fps to play at PAL speed. The disadvantage of resampling is that it doesn't work with passthrough, and there is a slight loss of audio quality. Skipping/duplicating audiopackets has no loss of audio quality, but the speed of the video can only be changed a little to avoid doing a skip/duplication too often, most of the time it's inaudible, but it can produce a very audible click. Adjusting the clock has the best audioquality, but some extra video jitter can occur, also the speed of the video can't change much, as the audio will sync the clock more often the more the speed of the video is changed. Allowed error in aspect ratio to minimize black bars (%) Allow video player to try to fit video to screen by ignoring aspect ratio by a certain amount. Display 4:3 videos as Determines the zoom level that 4:3 videos are shown on widescreen displays. Video post-processing Makes old/low resolution/blocky videos smoother. Blurs the image a bit. Activate Teletext Activate Teletext. High quality upscaling (GL only) Enables video upscaling to resize the source video frames to the size of the screen (XBMC's resolution). Note: Overrides the OSD hardware setting Upscaling method (GL only) [Bicubic, Lanczos, Sinc, VDPAU (GL & Linux with VDPAU capable Nvidia GPU only)] These methods use FFMPEG's software scaler (swscale). The differences between them is the algorithm used and the number of "taps" performed for calculating the final pixel's color. Sinc is generally the highest quality but also the most time consuming, followed by Lanczos and then Bicubic, however, this can be subjective. Note that all these methods are software methods, they are not hardware accelerated, so enabling them can result in frame drops and out of sync audio depending on your CPU, resolution etc. VDPAU HQ Upscaling level (GL & Linux with VDPAU capable Nvidia GPU only) Requires NVIDIA's linux driver v190.32 or later and VDPAU 'Feature set C' capable GPU (see driver README) VDPAU Studio level colour conversion (GL & Linux with VDPAU capable Nvidia GPU only) Enables studio level color correction. Corrects errors occurring from conversion between Y'CbCr and RGB. Useful if your TV can't handle PC level color ranges

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File lists

Default select action Lets you toggle between Choose, Play, Resume and Show information. Choose, will select item, eg open a directory in files mode On resume XBMC will automatically resume videos from the last position that you were viewing them, even after restarting the system. Default is Play. Extract thumbnail and video information When enabled, XBMC will extract thumbnails from videos that have no thumb in the library and information such as codecs and aspect ratio to display in Library Mode. Clean file and folder names Breaks up the filename into tokens, and removes unwanted tokens like release group names, hdtv, xvid, changes periods and underscores to spaces, etc, to get a "clean" name. Only the display name will be altered, this won't make any changes on your hard drive it self. Add own "unwanted tokens" in the <cleanstrings> advancedsetting.

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Subtitles

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Lets you change how XBMC renders subtitles (not including DVD subtitles) Font Size Style Colour Character set Subtitle folder Set a custom directory for your subtitles. This can be an smb share.

DVDs

Play DVDs automatically

Autoruns DVD video when inserted in drive

Forced DVD player region

Forces a region for DVD playback.

DVD Duplication

Attempt to skip introduction before DVD menu

Attempts to skip 'unskippable' introductions before DVD menu