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@fritsch

From a Dev. perspective I can see your points and some of the issues at hand if you want a near perfect Kodi platform and are wanting to take the purist coding approach.

From an End user standpoint, most will not care so long as 8-bit or 10-bit video displays smoothly on the TV. A Hell of a lot (outside of the Kodi forums especially) will not even know or care about mpeg2 DVD's for it to worry them one bit.

Really? DVD Playback is a deal breaker for me. All DVDs are MPEG2 after all... (Though in PAL-land most are 2:2 25p sourced, though in NTSC-land lots are 3:2 24p) I think a fair chunk of the HTPC community ripped their DVDs to VIDEO_TS or ISO format rather than re-encoding and losing quality. If you care about HD Audio and bitstreaming, chances are you also care about avoiding quality loss through recompression.

Even more can now get their fix from "Instant On" Netflix anyway, especially when you bypass the Geo blocking restrictions.
Yes its like like junk food, but convenience wins out over quality a lot of the time.

There's a LOT of stuff not on Netflix...

Showing interest in AML code now are you, whats going on ?

I think fritsch is always interested in lots of stuff. Remember he pushed the i.MX6 stuff for a while before realising it was a dead end.