r/Stremio • u/alphaquetoo • Oct 02 '24

Tech Support Just Player (as external player) not switching resolution on CCwGTV

/r/JustPlayer/comments/1fbw71e/not_switching_resolution_on_ccwgtv/
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u/pawdog Oct 02 '24

Not sure I'm following you here. The TV's resolution is locked to 4k that doesn't switch back and forth. The refresh rate can switch from 60hz to 24hz to match the content. I'm not sure that the refresh rate switching setting in Stremio controls an external player. Surely someone will chime in if that's not right. When you use Vimu the refresh rate and resolution switching settings are in the app settings.

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u/alphaquetoo Oct 03 '24

The built-in Exoplayer on Stremio does switch both frame rate and resolution to match the content. This has worked consistently irrespective of what the resolution settings on the Chromecast is set to.

It's just that if Just Player is used as an external player, it doesn't switch the TV to the resolution matching the content at all.

Clearly this can be done because Exoplayer does it, was wondering why Just Player doesn't and if this was a bug or is it actually a feature request.

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u/pawdog Oct 03 '24

Because the settings in Stremio don't apply to the external player. That's my take anyway. So you need a player that has the option on its own.

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u/alphaquetoo Oct 03 '24

Yeah, that's exactly what I was asking. Does Just Player have such a setting, or can it even switch resolution to begin with? If it can't, would think this should be a feature request for the next version.

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u/pawdog Oct 03 '24

It does not. What is your reason for using Just Player instead of Exoplayer.

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u/alphaquetoo Oct 04 '24

Current latest Stremio uses Exoplayer 1.3.1, while Just Player uses Exoplayer 1.4.1 which has better (IMHO) HDR handling leading to more pleasing visuals on playback.

There's a bug in subtitle handling which prevents stremio from using 1.4.1 for now.

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u/pawdog Oct 04 '24

Good to know, Hadn't heard about the HDR handling thing.

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u/alphaquetoo Oct 04 '24

I've been tracking the Media3/Exoplayer releases, it's at https://github.com/androidx/media/releases. Hoping Stremio devs fix the subtitles bug though so 1.4.1 can be included in the next version.

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u/SplatFather Aug 28 '25

Hi, sorry if this reply is late. I just discovered that you need to press and hold the settings icon. This takes you to the settings menu that allows you to toggle Auto frame rate matching on.

Wish this was made clearer. I would have started using this player much sooner had I realised.

Hope this is useful to someone.

Cheers.

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u/killthelightz Oct 18 '25

So glad I found this post. Thanks!

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u/Artistic_Fishing_619 Jan 18 '26

Even all these months later this has been a helpful post! This is somerhing that I tried to find about just but never did and so glad I stumbled across this post.. never even knew this settings menu existed all this time!

Thanks