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the update to webOS 26 broke the very valuable home assistant integration!
Please fix it asap - many users rely on it!
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Have you tried converting the file to a more modern format?
I use Fornat Factory
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The converted file. say .mkv, will run with the Media Player
and will be smaller, without loss of quality, if you want to archive it
I know this was mentioned before. I'd like to support this.
WebOS is such a great and versatile system; a real media centre. BUT: I have a number of video files that it simply doesn't play. VLC, e.g. does, but is not available.
To me it is such a pity that I have to have a system in parallel (actually a PC!) to play those files, with VLC, and then switch to HDMI to watch the clips on my TV. This doesn't look very much like 2026, as far as I am concerned.
To give an example, in which nothing is spectacular, and yet it doesn't play:
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format settings : BitmapInfoHeader / WaveFormatEx
File size : 360 MiB
Duration : 51 min 6 s
Overall bit rate : 986 kb/s
Frame rate : 23.976 FPS
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
Writing library : VirtualDub build 24259/release
Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings : BVOP1
Format settings, BVOP : 1
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 51 min 6 s
Bit rate : 752 kb/s
Width : 512 pixels
Height : 384 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.160
Stream size : 275 MiB (76%)
Writing library : XviD 1.1.0 (2005-11-22)
Audio
ID : 1
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Codec ID : 2000
Duration : 51 min 6 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 224 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 23 ms
Stream size : 81.9 MiB (23%)
Alignment : Split across interleaves
Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms
Service kind : Complete Main
Dialog Normalization : -27 dB
compr : 0.53 dB
dynrng : 0.53 dB
dialnorm_Average : -27 dB
dialnorm_Minimum : -27 dB
dialnorm_Maximum : -27 dB
Please, add-on to media player whatever is necessary to play such files!
Better yet: add something like VLC or at least Dragon. Make it available; even if the warranty was void, I'd prefer to load such an application.
Thanks for pondering!
Since my lg-oled65c9pla auto-updated to WebOS 5.5, there is a new bug.
The TV is connected to my Cambridge Audio Evo 75 amplifier over ARC - on powering the TV, it has always started up the amp, and switched it to use audio, instead of the appalling TV speakers. The whole setup has worked flawlessly for 5 years, but since WebOS 5.5, the amplifier starts, but is left in a muted state, and using the un-mute or volume controls on the TV remote makes no difference to turning on audio. The only way to get audio to play though my amp a speakers is to turn the amp's volume dial or press a volume button on the a amp's remote - this then unmutes the TV and audio is back.
There is no setting I can find in the TV that relates to whether the ARC channel starts muted or not...
No software has changed in my amp. This is an annoying new bug in the TV software, I assume down to some CEC changes.
FYI my Bluetooth issue that I have been having is now fixed and it was the 4th service company sent out by LG. The issue was that LG Doesn’t deal well with Dolby Audio and my Xfinity Cable box HDMI Audio Output: was set to Auto and was falsely recognizing setting to Dolby Audio. They changed the setting to Stereo. Problem solved! I turned off the Dolby Audio on my Nvidia pro box! Now my Bluetooth earbuds are working as they should without any problems dropping off when I change channels or HDMI inputs. Crazy that LG nor other service companies had no idea about this issue.
l was so disappointed with this issue that I even sent an letter to the CEO of LG. I tried and tried to get to someone in there software department. Glad we finally resolved this.
Hope this helps others!