2016-03-28, 20:20
This weekend I watched a DVD disc on my fairly old Blu-ray player as network changes had temporarily made my Kodi box (Minix Neo U1) unavailable. I couldn't help but notice that the quality of the picture, for a DVD, was very good. Later in the evening the Minix was online again so I played the first few minutes of my rip of the same movie. It was immediately obvious that the rip and/or stream was not in the same league, looking especially soft and indistinct in the shadowy areas of a scene. The rip is a direct MKV of the disc, no additional processing and certainly no compression. I think (but haven't checked) that Blu-ray titles are OK so perhaps the Blu-ray player is doing some upscaling that the Kodi box isn't - ? If anyone has seen the same thing or has some tips for improving my stream picture quality I'd be very interested.