H7S boots up with weird video mode about half the time.

[BrianTheTechieSnail]

My Zgemma H7S is set up to output 1080p video all the time - to match my full HD TV.

About half the time when the H7S boots up the text on the screen (EPG, list of recordings etc) is perfect 1080p text as I want.

But the other half of the time I can see that although the box is correctly outputting 1080p and I think showing HD TV correctly in full 1080p the text is clearly rendered to some lower resolution, 720p I think, and then stretched (upscaled) to 1080p. It's not horriificly ugly like that or anything but it's not as good, looking rather thin and uneven rather than nice and crisp.

I can't show you a screenshot because, rather bizarrely, it gets rendered perfectly in a screenshot!

Has anybody else seen this effect?

Has anyone any idea how to fix this?

At present I just reboot again until it boots up correctly.

[Andy_Hazza]

What are your video settings? Have you by chance got auto-resolution on? A screen grab of the video settings would be good.


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[BrianTheTechieSnail]

My video settings:
H7S Video.jpg

[Joe_90]

Try setting your refresh rate to 50Hz.

[BrianTheTechieSnail]

Try setting your refresh rate to 50Hz.

I already tried and it didn't make any difference.

Could it be something about the skin I use?

[Andy_Hazza]

Which skin is it?


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[BrianTheTechieSnail]

Which skin is it?

Magic-FHD

Actually I think it's not random 50/50. I think it alternates each time I reboot!

[BrianTheTechieSnail]

Magic-FHD

Actually I think it's not random 50/50. I think it alternates each time I reboot!

No. It's random or not predictable by me anyway.

[spanner123]

Try changing the 4:3 and 16:9 settings to 'just scale'. This is what I have always had mine set to.

[BrianTheTechieSnail]

I tried a few different skins but it's hard to tell if it happens with other skins since they all seem to use bigger thicker fonts that look a bit fuzzy anyway.

[cactikid]

What settings are on tv also might be worth checking.

[ronand]

Grab a high res screenshot using openwebif. there is no point guessing at what you may be seeing or if it is your eyesight

[BrianTheTechieSnail]

Screenshots don't appear to show exactly what is on the screen.
It always looks perfect in a screenshot.

[ronand]

AFAIK the screenshot will show what the box is displaying. it wont show what is actually on your tv - that might be where the problem is

[BrianTheTechieSnail]

AFAIK the screenshot will show what the box is displaying. it wont show what is actually on your tv - that might be where the problem is

The reason I don't think the problem is the TV is that I can switch different inputs in to the TV, switch the TV off and on or use the TV as a standalone TV and it doesn't change the state of the display of text from the H7S. Only rebooting the H7S will change it's text display from "bad" to good. I admit that doesn't really 100% prove it though.

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I noticed some things today.

Today is cooler - it doesn't seem to want to go "bad" at all today, well I did it just once this morning (when I was trying to take a photo of the TV screen with my phone) but not at all this afternoon. (that photo was too fuzzy to be of any use).

If it does it again I might try setting up a tripod and a better camera but none of my cameras are really good.

I'll try and shut up about it now, at least until I get photos, which I might not.
Even I as one who obsesses over his tech gadgets' imperfections way more than is normal regard it as a minor problem.