MI BOX S weird brightness flickering issue.

by Istarica

Hi,

I got my MI BOX S several month ago. It's been working fine except it keeps flickering on my Hisense 4K TV when playing video. It's weird because:

  • Only flickering when playing SDR video with " Hardware decoding ". Unfortunately most stream service are default to that. HDR video is working fine.
  • " Software decoding" works fine.
  • UI interfaces works fine.
  • Never flickering on my 1080p Asus monitor or RCA TV with any setting.
  • At the same time, Roku is working fine on my Hisense TV without flickering.

These solution did not work:

  • Change cable.
  • Dynamic brightness on/off.
  • Dynamic contrast on/off.
  • HDMI color range auto/full/limit.
  • Output format: Ycbcr 420 444 / RGB / 8 bit 10bit.
  • HDMI 2.0 mode: standard/enhanced.

However I do find some workaround I wanna share it here:

  • Enable SDR-HDR feature: Since it only flickering on SDR video, force it to HDR mode seems a good solution. However it has a tradeoff, the video color shift a bit with SDR-HDR.
  • Reduce resolution to 1080p or lower: It did reduce the frequency of flickering, however it still flickering.
  • Tune the " color" setting slide bar on the TV: simply tune the value of " color " up and down stop the flickering completely. But it's not permanent, once reboot the TV or MI BOX the flickering comes back.

Any idea?

trlef19

Software version?mi boxes are full of issues :(