[D3w4yne]

MPEG2 plays great for me. I'm using Gotham RC1 and playing 1080i/720p OTA recordings using ServerWMC/wmc.pvr. Deinterlacing is grayed out, but the video looks fine.

On my pc I only deinterlacing if I select it. It's not grayed out and I thought I had hardware decoding.

Same with my phone actually. I had to select deinterlace.
Am I skipping a step somewhere?

No, I didn't do anything special. I can't explain how, but I am able to watch MPEG2 with deinterlacing grayed out and set to off. I even took pvr software out of the picture and played the files directly. Still play fine. My settings are mostly defaults.

However, I did discover something interesting. Deinterlacing is only grayed out when Libstagefright is turned on. Using Software decoding or ONLY MediaCodec makes it available. If both LibstageFright & MediaCodec are on, it's grayed out. Also, Skip Fwd/Back is blurry & slower when Libstagefright is enabled. Which seems odd if there's no hardware acceleration for MPEG2.

I think one of the devs stated earlier that the options will be grayed out if it is hardware decoded. If it is hardware decoded then it should be assumed that deinterlacing is done automatically. That was my assumption.

I watched some TV last night and I didn't notice any horizontal lines. It might be possible that hardware decoding is properly deinterlacing now? Not sure if that's something fixed by Amazon or by the final release of Gotham.

Dewayne