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Pixelated Picture Slideshow - tyme2craft - 2016-08-07
Hello all,
I am trying to create a picture slideshow on Kodi with my 10k library of pictures. I recently purchased a Seagate Central 4tb and am using it as a NAS. I also purchased a Raspberry Pi 3. I downloaded the osmc os on the RP3 and went into Pictures and was able to find and add my NFS in the SMB category. I started a recursive slideshow and everything went pretty smoothly except for the fact that 1/3 of the pictures were pixelated. I read up online that there was a problem with the RAM management on Kodi with the RP3. I had an extra computer laying around, so I figured I would give that a try to see if the underlying problem was found within Kodi's software, or the RP3. Again, I went through the same setup process and started the slideshow. Once more, about 1/3 of the pictures came up pixelated. I knew at that point that there wasn't a problem with RAM management as the computer I used the second time has 4gb of DDR3 Ram installed. I also know that all of the pictures I'm using are all good quality and none of them are actually this pixelated when viewing them on a regular computer without Kodi. I should also note that all of my pictures are in .jpg format. I'm a bit stuck and I cant find anything else online about this. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Reece
Here are some pictures from the slideshow:
watch gallery
(Just in case that didn't work, here's a link: http://imgur.com/a/poxXS )
RE: Pixelated Picture Slideshow - willemd - 2016-09-14
Are these photo also pixelated in Kodi when you view them as a single picture? I mean, when you click Enter to see the photo instead of using the slideshow. What happens when you zoom in on the photo (by using the 0 (zero) key)?
RE: Pixelated Picture Slideshow - tyme2craft - 2016-09-24
Hello, thank you for you response. All of the pictures look fine when they are individually tested. I cannot get them to zoom in for some reason, but I would imagine that that wouldn't make a difference whatsoever. Any other ideas? I recently updated it too and that didn't do anything to fix it either.
Thank you!
RE: Pixelated Picture Slideshow - nsurg - 2017-01-26
I'm stuck on this as well. I'm new to kodi and using version 16 (jarvis). I have over 10k photos on a synology NAS linked to nvidia shield running spmc over gigabit ethernet network.
When I go through a folder pic by pic everything is in perfect resolution (works perfectly when not in a slideshow) and there are no low-quality images popping up.
When I pick any folder for recursive randomized slideshow about half the photos are perfect resolution, and some are medium-quality but worse than original, and some are massively pixelated/low resolution.
I have seen posts about synology creating thumbnails with @eaDir as hidden folder that can accidentally display, but I can find no such folder when I search (including hidden folder search) and when I try to exclude @eaDir from the search with xml files it makes no difference. This doesn't seem to be my problem.
As another clue (?) when I try a recursive slideshow without any shuffling, I get a display of the medium quality photo (for the fixed seconds I chose in the options), then the terrible quality of the same exact photo, then the full resolution of the same photo. Yet there is only one such copy of a photo like this in the folder??
Is anyone able to get this to work or suggest troubleshooting? Is anyone able to get a recursive slideshow (randomized) working well from a NAS in full resolution?
Thanks for any help folks!
RE: Pixelated Picture Slideshow - nsurg - 2017-01-27
as an update to my above post, the screen saver slide show works perfectly, so I don't think it's a problem with the synology NAS source folders or ethernet speeds. I suspect it's a problem with the kodi picture component. FWIW I am using SPMC...
RE: Pixelated Picture Slideshow - starsearcher - 2017-02-01
hi everybody,
i have the same problem with jarvis and krypton. everything is shown perfect only some the slideshow gives me pictures with a really bad resolution. it seems like there are preview pictures with different size included in the slideshow
RE: Pixelated Picture Slideshow - nsurg - 2018-04-25
Late update to this thread for those synology users with any such problem. Creating the xml file at the bottom of this post helped.
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=173919