[Karnis]

On another note: I went back to the standard OpenELEC 6.0 away from the EGL new build that does better colors. I had issues with audio passthru being flaky. GUI sounds would not play consistently and the image seemed softer IMO. Now back on main OpenELEC everything is nice and smooth. I cant tell the difference in any colors. And it annoyed me that auto updates were disabled when using the EGL build.

I find the Milhouse build # 1119 (which includes the EGL Video Player) to be quite stable on my Chromebox, with good pass-thru and good colors with no banding. Make sure you use fritsch's recommended Kodi settings here:
2.) KODI settings
System->Settings->System->Video Settings:
Vertical Sync: Let Driver decide

System ->Video->Acceleration:
Enable HQ Scalers for scaling above: 20%
Allow hardware acceleration (VDPAU): off
Allow hardware acceleration (VAAPI): On
Use Mpeg-2 VAAPI: Yes
Use Mpeg-4 VAAPI: if you like
UseVC-1 VAAPI: on
Prefer VAAPI Render Method: on <- This version has the banding fixed, so enable that setting to save CPU cycles with 100% quality.
Adjust Refreshrate to match video: On

System -> Video -> Playback
Sync Playback to Display: On if you don't use passthrough and Off if passthrough enabled (* This makes no sense when you want to use passthrough, why? Read: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...d2107461). In current versions (Jarvis) passthrough is disabled by us if users wants to Sync Playback to Display to care for people that refuse to read.
Adjust display refresh rate to match video: On Start / Stop

While watching a SD(!) video, that is accelerated by VAAPI, e.g. mpeg-2 or h264, click the film role and choose: Deinterlace: Auto (Never set this to ON it will harm for everything that is not interlaced) Deinterlacing-Method: VAAPI-MCDI or VAAPI-MADI (Sandybridge) and VAAPI-BOB (BYT), Scaling Method: Lanczos3 Optimized and choose save for all files. Remember to do this only in combination with the above "scaling above" for 20%. This Lanczos3 Optimized filter is too heavy for BYTs, here you might - depending on the file - choose Bilinear.


Generally speaking, above that and up to the latest builds they are testing new pass-thru methods and some sync issues still need to be resolved.

Remember these are test builds, so it's probably best to update manually anyway.

You can roll back to OE 6 official from this build with no problems.

1119:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2164900