I just tried it on your Arctic Zephyr 2 - Resurrection (A5) skin, and the exact same problem occurs.
Here is the file that’s causing the issue:
When I start the movie in English, the Player Info shows Dolby Atmos (eac3) → My AV receiver shows Dolby Atmos.
Without closing the video, when I switch to the French audio (DD+ 5.1, second audio track), the Player Info shows Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 → My AV receiver shows DD+.
Everything works as expected so far, BUT…
When I start the video with the French audio track, the Player Info shows Dolby Atmos (eac3) → My AV receiver shows DD+.
To get the correct information when I start the video in French, here’s what I have to do:
• Start the video with the French audio track
• Switch the audio track to English
• Switch back to the French audio track to get the correct information in Player Info (Dolby Digital Plus 5.1).
Edit: The French audio track doesn’t have Dolby Atmos, only the English track does.
Guys I have a question regarding Player cache. Why Pcache goes down when I display player info but filling up when is closed. This only happens on higher bitrate movies it seems as when I play episodes this is not an issue.
It works correctly on the A5 version. I’m waiting to find a solution for Dolby Atmos (eac3) before releasing the A5 version of the interfaces.
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Updated to A5 ver and still happens.
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The EAC3 with JOC detection is best efforts only - mainly based on looking at BDInfo detection logic and cross referencing the ETSI spec.
That being said this is an odd case either:
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The 2nd track has something which the logic actually thinks is JOC and hence is Atmos but it is not. - If this is the case then need better logic and maybe will not be fixed, not sure if can test with BDInfo somehow? As switching when later into the track does not have the issue also implies only the start has the false positive.
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Kodi actually still starts by playing the first track but almost instantly switches over to the 2nd (i.e. the Atmos detection was correct as was on the 1st track to start but need to be reset when moving to the 2nd using the reset mechanism) - I can see possibly a way Atmos would not be reset if using reset and both new and old track are EAC3.
Can put an issue up here so don’t loose track and check when get time:
cpm-code issues
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Yep, this file sometime false detect.
I havent see similar issue in my files, but what is weird too, its a hdr10+ file, but detected as CMv4 too…
There are several films that are DV P7 and HDR10+ on same disk. Could be case here?
Its just one video track, no dv track.
Implies it has a DV RPU NAL - no other way this gets set, and the Video marked wrong at the container level.
I made a cut of the video using VLC, the original file does indeed contain Dolby Vision.
I just discovered a new issue with the EAC3 display in the Player Info.
I tried with another movie that has Dolby Atmos (EAC3) and made an interesting discovery.
So, I tried the same manipulation on another movie that doesn’t have a Dolby Atmos audio track, only EAC3.
When I switch between audio streams (for example, from audio track 1 to audio track 3, without closing the video), and then open Player Info, sometimes it displays “Dolby Atmos (eac3),” even though there is no Atmos audio track.
You have to constantly change the audio track to trigger this bug. I’m not sure if I’m being clear.
I found this bug using the Arctic Zephyr 2 skin by @frodo19 . I checked the code.
<value condition="String.IsEqual(VideoPlayer.AudioCodec,eac3) + String.Contains(Player.Process(audio.is.dolby.atmos),Atmos)">Dolby Atmos (eac3)</value>
Then I tried with a different code, but the bug is still there, it changes nothing.
<value condition="String.IsEqual(VideoPlayer.AudioCodec,eac3) + String.IsEqual(Player.Process(audio.is.dolby.atmos),Atmos)">Dolby Atmos (eac3)</value>
Here is the video file that does not have a Dolby Atmos audio track: 196.96 MB file on MEGA
Sorry once again for the VLC conversion, there’s a slight signal loss at the beginning of the video. 
It doesn’t depend on that variable. Its equal. Both can work or not work.
Maybe cpm will find a solution.
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Thank you so much for the skin!
Can I ask if it is possible to align the PlayerProcessInfo data a bit more to the right? in my language (italian) the title overlaps in a couple of information.
eac3 does not mean it’s Atmos. eac3 can be 5.1
You need to test for ‘JOC’
I know. I’m getting Dolby Atmos (EAC3) as information in the Player Info even though there is no Atmos track on this movie.
EAC3 information in the Player Info is incorrect for now.
EDIT: VERSION UPDATE HERE
Button mapping script to toggle VS10 Engine On/Off
Attached is a script to turn VS10 conversion on/off mapped to a remote button. It simply toggles the Kodi Settings > System > CoreELEC > For SDR8, SDR10, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG between off and the previous value. The on screen notification is anchored to the SDR8 value. The current video has to be stopped and restarted for the VS10 change to take effect.
To have the script only toggle a subset of these, comment out what you don’t want toggled. For example to only toggle SDR8 and SDR10
SETTINGS = [
"coreelec.amlogic.dolbyvision.vs10.sdr8",
"coreelec.amlogic.dolbyvision.vs10.sdr10",
#"coreelec.amlogic.dolbyvision.vs10.hdr10",
#"coreelec.amlogic.dolbyvision.vs10.hdr10plus",
#"coreelec.amlogic.dolbyvision.vs10.hdrhlg",
#"coreelec.amlogic.dolbyvision.vs10.dv"
]
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Open Keymap Editor Kodi Addon, and map
minimiseto the remote button you want to use to toggle VS10 on/off
Edit > Global > System > Minimise > Edit key
Save -
Open SSH and edit gen.xml
CoreELEC:~ # nano /storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/gen.xmlFind the remote button assigned to
shutdown.>shutdown</key>Change it to:
>runscript(/storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/toggle_vs10.py)</key>Save (ctrl+s) and exit (ctrl+x) nano editor
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Copy toggle_vs10.py (2.9 KB) to:
Samba
userdata/keymaps/toggle_vs10.py
(/storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/toggle_vs10.py) -
Restart Kodi
I didn’t see a way to map a script directly with Keymap Editor, so I don’t know if this process can be simplified. I’m sure the script can be improved, but it does what I need as it is now.
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Cool, thanks.
The direct access to settings page, not possible?
I mean click the button and go to: Kodi Settings > System > CoreELEC
Maybe would be easyer.
And we can build one togglebutton to the skin, video OSD…
But you are right, after settings page , need navigate back…
Is it possible to enhance this script and directly add the stop / resume procedure?
Yeah it may be easier for most to map a button to the settings page. The script was mostly for me, but I saw a couple people interested in toggling VS10 engine directly so I shared it.
I’m sure it’s possible, if someone else doesn’t do it, I can make an attempt when I have time.
Since I see there’s been quite a discussion about this specific subject, could somebody “in the know” help me understand if Dolby Digital Plus with Atmos is now identifiable as different from DD+ without Atmos? I am asking due to this:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=373441
Does the version of Kodi in CoreELEC already incorporate this functionality?
Thanks.