(2019-03-25, 21:56)FernetMenta Wrote:

(2019-03-25, 19:21)ashlar Wrote:

(2019-03-24, 22:51)FernetMenta Wrote:  
I did not say this and again this it not true. If madVR is desired as a renderer for Kodi, binary addon is the way to go.     

Ok, thank you @FernetMenta. Did I understand uncorrectly what @davilla meant with "One would have to extend the binary addon interface to support it."?
My understanding was that there is currently no way for such a binary addon to be created unless Kodi devs worked on their side to create the proper "environment" for it.    

Again for clarity and other readers who might come across this in future. An open source project like Kodi won't make itself dependent on a closed source library like madVR. That means that the one and only option to make madVR available in Kodi is via binary addons.

Right, currently there is no binary addon interface for external renderers. But such an interface can be created like it has been done for other purposes too. Everybody can be a Kodi dev. That means that everbody who wants to wrap madVR into a binary addon can also extend Kodi's external interfaces. A lot of v18 features like videobuffers support this now. That means it has never been easier to create external renderers. But still a lot of work ahead though.

Quote:devs have sacrificed quality over platform proliferation

What a pity, isn't it?

(2019-03-24, 04:46)davilla Wrote: Sorry to confuse. I mean since by-pass rendering has been removed in v18, the option of doing what you want with a by-pass renderer is also not possible with v18.

(2019-08-11, 03:23)Warner306 Wrote: We don't need any changes to the player itself. It already works fine and doesn't need any new features. We need the external player code to be merged with the rest of Kodi. I'm not a coder, so I don't know how much of the DSPlayer code overlaps with the rest of Kodi, but it is basically a second player alongside VideoPlayer that becomes the default player. Most feature updates come from external installations of LAV Filters and madVR that have their own developers.

(2019-08-11, 15:02)Warner306 Wrote: I doubt the average DSPlayer user would be willing to do this while the current DSPlayer is still working fine.

(2019-08-11, 12:54)Warner306 Wrote: It's already been done in the past. DSPlayer is a fork, so Team Kodi isn't concerned with it. We simply lost the developer who was doing the merges from v15 to v16, v16 to v17, etc. 

madVR is an external installation to DSPlayer and DSPlayer simply uses it as the renderer.

(2019-03-23, 15:33)davilla Wrote: Easy to do in v17 player based code, v18 is harder as the concept of a by-pass renderer was neutered.

(2019-08-21, 22:25)TheBuz Wrote: I am having trouble getting the video cache settings to work.

https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Modify_the_video_cache

Basically i want to dump as much of the video to RAM as possible.

Is this because MADvr doesn't respect the cache or has its own cache settings? If so where could I find those?