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I don't want to talk bad about any platform I just want to emphasize: if we don't have access to the "perfectly" decoded data, it is worth nothing, cause we have no influence of how colors / formats are transformed.
The worst example was VAAPI. Here we decoded and the only way to get the data back was a full copy which vaapi transformed from NV12 to Full Range RGB for us. So in this most likely ugliest case: we got banding for free - always - without a performant workaround. Such things still can happen on closed platforms and this is something one needs to take great care.
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Okay - yeah that's what I was expecting. I posted you the framebuffer config above, which is RGB completely. This is the fb kodi is rendering to. If - after that - AML does a great job of "transforming" the colors lossless - all is fine. But as said earlier, this is pure luck and if it was differently, absolutely nothing we could do about it :-(
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Oki - Could you test VAAPI if you find time? (Don't forget the xrandr command to set full range and then use kodi for color management?)
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2015-09-17, 22:08
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Hi,
RK 3368 PowerVr Rogue G6110 will be normally used by kodi?
I can play only 720p content, 1080P missing pictures very often, unwatchable
rK 3188 could also play only 720P content continiously no luck with 1080p.
I have an old Asrock ION 330 Intel CPU, what can play any 1080P content with older XBMC
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Kodi 16.0 ALpha3 (from nighly builds) solved all of my problems!
Nice work!
And I see all the 8 cpu cores when pressing "O"
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Hi and first of all thanks for this magnificent software. Right now I'm in the market for a tv media center. I don't know if I should go for an android based or windows based system, nor if it's best to use a box or a stick. What I do know is that I would like to own something that would let me use it to browse the net, watch a few videos on youtube and of course use kodi to stream tv and other content, while still being able to update in terms of codecs and stuff like that.
At the moment I cannot spend more than 100€ however.
Can Someone please point me in the direction of something worth having?
I've heard of the MK808B plus and of minix neo x8-h plus(too expensive for my blood) but other than that I don't know much else about the subject.