Codec Logos

Codec Logos

TinyPPI can show the video (HDR) format and the audio format of the playing title as a stack of logos directly on the picture, on a rounded panel whose colors, size and position are all configurable. The logos are re-resolved live: switch the audio track and the audio logo changes with it.

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When the logos appear

There are three independent situations, each switched on separately under Settings → Codec logos, and each with its own copy of every setting below (position, size, order, colors):

Situation	Master switch	Default	Shown
On playback start	Show codec logos on playback start	Off	For Display duration seconds (1–30, default 8) after a video starts.
Video OSD	Show codec logos in the video OSD	Off	Whenever the on-screen playback controls are visible.
TinyPPI overlay	Show codec logos in the TinyPPI overlay	Off	While the TinyPPI overlay is open (not the VS10 dialog or the metadata view).

The logos are drawn as image controls inside Kodi's fullscreen video window itself, not as a dialog on top of it, so the remote keeps controlling playback while they are visible. They fade in and out.

The background service starts the logo controller on every playback start (Player.OnAVStart) when at least one situation is enabled. Enabling one in the middle of a video takes effect immediately as well.

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The logo stack

┌──────────────┐  ●  ← conversion dot (while VS10 converts)
│  DOLBY       │
│  VISION      │  ← video / HDR logo (output format)
│ ──────────── │  ← divider
│  DOLBY       │
│  ATMOS       │  ← audio logo
└────[ FEL ]───┘  ← Dolby Vision layer pill (bottom or top edge)

Setting	Options	Effect
Logo order	Video on top, audio below (default) · Audio on top, video below	Which logo sits on top.
Show video codec logo	On (default) / Off	Turn off to show the audio logo alone.
Show audio codec logo	On (default) / Off	Turn off to show the video logo alone.
Dolby Vision pill position	Bottom edge (default) · Top edge	Which edge of the panel the layer pill sits on.

Rules:

• With both logos switched on, the panel is all-or-nothing: an audio codec without a logo (see the list below) hides the whole panel rather than showing a lone video logo.
• A video without any audio track shows its video logo on its own.
• The video logo follows the HDMI output, read from the Amlogic driver: a Dolby Vision title converted to SDR by VS10 shows the SDR logo, with the conversion dot in the panel's top-right corner telling you a conversion is active.
• The Dolby Vision pill appears whenever the output is Dolby Vision: FEL (forest green) or MEL (tangerine) for a source with that enhancement layer, and a neutral pill (white at 20 %) for any other profile or a non-Dolby-Vision source converted to Dolby Vision.
• For a film recognised as IMAX (see IMAX Detection) the HDR10, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision logos are replaced by their combined IMAX versions.
• The logos wait for the output to settle at playback start, so they do not flash the wrong format while the TV is still switching.

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Position and size

Setting	Range	Default
Horizontal offset	0 % (left edge) … 100 % (right edge)	0 %
Vertical offset	0 % (top edge) … 100 % (bottom edge)	0 %
Size (%)	80 … 130	100

With the defaults the panel sits in the top-left corner, inset from the edges. Move it to the top-right with Horizontal offset = 100 %. The offsets are kept when the size changes, and the panel never touches the screen edge.

Logo images are scaled down to their exact on-screen size once (a box filter in premultiplied alpha, which looks noticeably cleaner than Kodi's own resampling) and cached in addon_data/script.tinyppi/scaled_images/. The cache survives restarts and updates and is tidied automatically.

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Colors

Each situation has its own colors, each with an opacity slider:

Element	Default	Opacity
Background color (panel)	Charcoal	98 %
Video logo	White	100 %
Audio logo	White	100 %
Divider	White	35 %
Conversion indicator (dot)	Forest	100 %
FEL indicator (pill)	Forest	100 %
MEL indicator (pill)	Tangerine	100 %
Other Dolby Vision (pill)	White	20 %

The logos are white artwork tinted with the chosen color, so a color applies cleanly to any logo. See Colors and Themes.

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Supported formats

Video / HDR

Logo	Format	IMAX variant
SDR	Standard Dynamic Range	—
HDR10	HDR10	HDR10 + IMAX
HDR10+	HDR10+	HDR10+ + IMAX
HLG	Hybrid Log-Gamma	—
Dolby Vision	Dolby Vision	Dolby Vision + IMAX

Audio

Logo	Format	Kodi codec id(s)
AAC	AAC	aac
AAC-LC	AAC Low Complexity	aac_lc
AAC LATM	AAC in LATM/LOAS	aac_latm
AAC-LTP	AAC Long Term Prediction	aac_ltp
AAC-SSR	AAC Scalable Sample Rate	aac_ssr
HE-AAC	High-Efficiency AAC	he_aac
HE-AAC v2	High-Efficiency AAC v2	he_aac_v2
Dolby Digital	Dolby Digital (AC-3)	ac3, dolbydigital
Dolby Digital Plus	Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC-3)	eac3
Dolby Digital Plus Atmos	DD+ with Dolby Atmos	eac3_ddp_atmos
Dolby TrueHD	Dolby TrueHD	truehd
Dolby TrueHD Atmos	TrueHD with Dolby Atmos	truehd_atmos
DTS	DTS	dts, dca
DTS 96/24	DTS 96/24	dts_96_24
DTS-ES	DTS-ES	dts_es
DTS Express	DTS Express	dts_express
DTS-HD HRA	DTS-HD High Resolution Audio	dtshd_hra
DTS-HD MA	DTS-HD Master Audio	dtshd_ma, dtshd
DTS:X	DTS:X	dtshd_ma_x
IMAX	DTS:X IMAX Enhanced	dtshd_ma_x_imax
FLAC	FLAC	flac
PCM	PCM / LPCM	pcm, pcm_bluray, pcm_s16le, pcm_s24le
MP1 / MP2 / MP3	MPEG audio	mp1, mp2, mp3, mp3float
OGG	Ogg Vorbis	ogg
OPUS	Opus	opus
VORBIS	Vorbis	vorbis

Codecs without a logo — ALAC, WAV, WavPack, APE, WMA, AIFF and anything unlisted — show no audio logo.

The Dolby, DTS and IMAX logos are trademarks of their respective owners and are used only to identify the format a stream carries.