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Here is some information in regard to this Release:
A) New updated avdvplus R8 estuary "light" skin, special thanks to frodo19. This skin shows AV1 video info when using a S905X4 SoC device (only).
B) Video Processor feature now have OSD with normal colors including when using "Auto selection between Player Led and Video Processor settings".
C) From my repo Issues page requested items:
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Fixed L5 not working correctly with 1080p video.
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Fixed video restart after 1-3 seconds subtitle related.
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Fixed audio drop with spliced FLAC audio tracks.
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Fixed long-standing VS10 DV to SDR brightness bug.
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Fixed end of Marvell (and other) movies playback issues.
D) Further ported and aligned my code to cpm-code including his work on HDR subtitles colors with fix for the OSD luminosity (skin VS10 buttons still having issues some not working, some creating luminance problems, please use the Menu selection for VS10 conversion until this issue with the VS10 skin buttons is resolved in R9).
E) Further improved overall system response/speed performance.
F) Further improved overall video and audio sync.
G) Backported some CoreELEC/Kodi 22 fixes.
H) Other minor improvements and fixes.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
With this new build make sure to set on Settings/System/Audio "Audio output device" to "ALSA: AML-AUGESOUND, HDMI Multi Ch PCM" and "Passthrough output device" to "ALSA: AML-AUGESOUND, HDMI"
If you have a HDMI repeater/switch device (such as HDFury or a standard HDMI switch) in your video chain and you are having video/audio issues, please power the hdmi repeater/switch off (pull the plug) for at least 15 seconds and power it on after updating to my build. The AMLogic hdmi hardware/firmware sometimes creates some handshake corruption with such hdmi repeaters/switches devices that needs to be cleared.
If you are having audio/video playback issues when using my build with PlexMod for Kodi (PM4K) please try to completely turn off/disable Alternate Seek in PM4K. If the problem still persists with PM4K then try playing the same video file directly from a smb/nfs share connection or a local usb drive (i.e., not using PM4K). If you still have problems playing the video when using a smb/nfs/local drive then please post the issue on my Builds "Issues" page, if you do not have playback issues using a smb/nfs/local drive then you can try PlexKodiConnect (PKC) that has similar Plex connection capabilities as PM4K - https://github.com/croneter/PlexKodiConnect - You can have both PKC and PM4K installed at the same time and see which one works best for you.
If you are using an AVR/Audio Processor and had adjusted the Audio Delay previously it is recommended that you check it again on your equipment since whatever you had set before could not be the same as with this new build. You can use the video files from https://photojoseph.com/tips/2021/3/30/downloadable-audiovideo-sync-tests-2398-24-25-2997-50-5994 or any other video/audio sync files you prefer to calibrate your equipment.
Thanks again to all of the testers.