I’ve been updating my rig to HD over the last year and I’m really hoping to find a way to use recur’s best features in this setup. Currently, I can play videos on recur at 1080p HDMI output with no issue if I use omxplayer, except that shaders aren’t available in this mode, which reduces the device to a simple video player. On the other hand, when I use ofvideoplayer or ofomxplayer, all of my videos are cropped to the top left corner of the video frame. It looks as if the player is cropping a portion of my video file and then scaling it to 1080p through the output. This happens whether I use 480p, 720p, or 1080p files!
Now I have been able to get correct display with ofvideoplayer and ofomxplayer using 480p and 720p output, however my video mixer dictates that I need to use 1080p. So I’m hoping someone has cracked the code to solving this little quirk.
I’ve been all over the config.txt trying to make this work. Changing the HDMI mode does not help for 1080p output. It does properly display videos when forced at 720p or 480p, just not 1080p. In either case, the Pi is already connecting to my video mixer at 1080p automatically through EDID handshake, so it shouldn’t be necessary to change the HDMI mode for this purpose.
it is an interesting question! and it does seem like what you want should be possible. i will make a note to try out what you are attempting (1080p output of recur with a oF video backend) and see what happens..
it was a long time ago now but i seem to remember that there were some trade-offs to adding those alternative video backends and resolution was likely one of them..
stoked that u still finding ur recur useful enough to try convert to new hd setup tho :))
