[voip-ninja]

Thanks, I will try with software filtering and check out the results... based on what I've reported, what do you think my best shot is?

Set full range with xrandr, 16-235 in XBMC, VAAPI and software filtering on. Check that you have all the picture settings in XBMC neutral. This should work because your TV assumes limited range input even when it is told otherwise (like my Panasonic). You should get BtB/WtW and no banding - just like with software decoding.

Once you have the levels correct, check your TV overscan and picture size setting and verify with the resolution patterns that there is no scaling happening. If you see 1-2 pixel scaling (which shows up as some brightness variation and blurriness in the patterns), check XBMC picture aspect setting.


I think the avshd709 patterns are a wonderful free resource and they have a nice PDF guide explaining them. Highly recommended to anyone following this!

I want to personally thank you yet again as you are an invaluable resource for troubleshooting these really irritating problems that are troublesome to those of us after best PQ we can get.

The recommendation above seems to have been the "jackpot" combination.. the only oddity I observed is that I seemed to get WTW in the test patterns but not BTB... PQ during playback (of at least H264) however looks great and I finally think I'm where I need to be with this.

The only thing to fret about now is that possibly during VC1 playback things will be a bit off since we are forced to use software decode for that currently.

Thanks again a million times over. I think that we need a "Panasonic Plasma" patch that corrects all of this stuff for NUC users who have a Panny TV!