[bhampton]

Any suggestions for VC-1 ? Specifically MKV from Blu Ray that have VC-1 for video.

The only thing I do with my Kodi/Chromebox is playback MKV of Blu Rays and VC-1 is problematic.

If I enable Vaapi (Acceleration for VC-1) I get blocky artifacts during certain scenes which are 100% easy to reproduce. Same scenes ... everytime. 2 that I noticed are in the movies Deep Blue Sea and Jurassic Park.

If I dis-able Vaapi then many VC-1 movies become a choppy mess. For example, The Dark Knight or FastTimes.

So for now, I have to check if a movie uses VC1 and remember which option works.

-Brian

Think there was some suggestion that the blockiness - bizarrely - was worse in some containers than others. Have you tried remuxing the blocky mkvs to something like mp4 or m2ts? (This isn't the interlaced VC-1 issue AIUI)

Hi,

I'm still a bit new to the media server idea,... I tend to just convert Blu Rays to MKV using MakeMKV and prefer not to remux or re-encode or anything like that, however, I am tempted to re-encode at least those 2 problematic movies. The blockiness artifacts I found are in the first few minutes of both of those and completely reproduce-able... I assumed maybe the Deep Blu Sea disc was 1080i and that was the issue. I wouldn't think Jurassic Park was 1080i but then I don't know... Typically I can't tell if a disc is coded for 1080i or 1080p.

Edit - According to Blu Ray dot com both these movies are 1080p .. so it's not the 1080i issue.


=Brian