[toymachine2009]

So lately for the past 2 weeks or so picture quality has been kind of crappy. The picture is fine it just seems blocky if you will.... ESPECIALLY around faces and it irritates the hell out of me when watching something. It's visible 99 percent of the time on faces.. So I just tried playing it in VLC and looked crystal clear and what a difference it was.

Would a log be helpful in this situation? Also I do not have the setting excellerate hardware davx2 or whatever that is. All I can assume is it's some setting in xbmc since VLC looks so great.

[jhsrennie]

Would a log be helpful in this situation?

It's always worth posting a debug log.

Enable debug logging from System settings, System, Debugging, and restart XBMC.

A quick way to open the debug log is to press Windows-R and in the Run dialog type:

"%appdata%\xbmc\xbmc.log"

(including the quotes). Click OK and the log should open in Notepad. Copy and paste the log into http://pastebin.com/ and post the link it gives you here.

JR