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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

My suggestion is to re-mux them not re-encode them.

When you re-mux something you keep the video and audio streams intact and untouched, but change the 'wrapper' or file container that they are in. MKV, AVI, MOV, MP4, TS and M2TS are all different wrappers. ISTR reading somewhere that for some reason certain Blu-ray rips in one wrapper blocked but they were fine in another wrapper.