Bug#845450: Found the cause

[LRN]

After once again trying to make it work i finally found out why this is
happening (i kind of knew *what* was happening, but not why).

Turns out, Kodi does indeed have separate stereoscopic modes - input mode (i.e.
what kind of content the file has) and output mode (i.e. how Kodi UI, and
subtitles, should be rendered).

One is changed in the 3d-glass-options-button, and its default value can be
changed in Player/Videos section of Kodi global settings.
The other is changed separately in video settings when playing a file, and it
is absent from global settings. Instead, current file settings can be saved as
defaults for all media.

What happened to me was that, apparently, i've switched media file settings
from Auto to Side-by-Side at some point, and saved it as default for all
further files, without understanding what i was doing. This might have been
necessary due to Kodi misdetecting media stereoscopic layout, i don't know.

Anyway, this bug can be either closed as not-a-bug, or fixed with some kind of
doc-fix. One could argue that it's not good to be able to have mismatching
input/output stereoscopic settings, as this can easily degrade the picture
quality, but this feature does have legitimate uses (quality degradation
notwithstanding), and it's not up to Debian package maintainers to change that
anyway.

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