Hey everybody. I’m running Coreelec on my Ugoos and I’m using the Aeon Nox skin, if that matters. I’ve noticed that some of my 4k wallpapers look really rough when displayed as backgrounds in Kodi, and research has led me to believe that this is normal Kodi behavior and that I need to edit the advancedsettings.xml file to adjust the quality at which Kodi caches images. I created the following advancedsettings.xml file:
<advancedsettings version="1.0">
<imageres>9999</imageres>
<fanartres>9999</fanartres>
<imagequalityjpeg>0</imagequalityjpeg>
</advancedsettings>
First off, does that look okay? Not sure that the fanart/jpeg settings are necessary but I put them in there anyway. Please let me know if there’s anything I should add/edit.
Main question is how to get this file onto my Ugoos. I’m able to ssh into the device with Putty, but I barely understand what that means and I’m intimidated by console commands. Anybody that’s willing to spell out exactly how I should go about transferring this file from my Windows PC to the correct folder in Coreelec would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance!
I can’t say if this exact advancedsettings content is correct, but I don’t see any obvious errors.
If you already know how to use puTTY you can easily get this to work! Open putty and paste (by clicking with right mouse button in the puTTY window):
nano /storage/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml
Depending on if you already had an advancedsettings file with some content, you will either get an empty file (which I expect) or the existing content. Assuming the file is empty you can paste the content you would like to use with a right mouse click somewhere in the empty file.
Now you can save the file with ctrl-x and choose Y and confirm with [enter] to save the new file. Restart Kodi to see if it works.
If you experience any unwanted side-effects you can remove the file content again with the command above, by simply removing all content, saving the file and restarting Kodi.
Thank you! That went off without a hitch. However even after restarting Kodi I don’t notice a difference in some of the backgrounds. I logged back in via Putty and confirmed that the file got saved correctly, but even after a second restart the issue persists. They are crisp and clear on my 4k desktop but blurry on my 4k TV.
Is there a way to erase/rebuild the image cache? Or maybe the problem is something else entirely… Either way, thanks for your help!