[Warner306]

@aracnoz

The official kodi dev team is working hard on a new video player.
As it has to run on many different kind of device, spending time on a directshow based player is completely useless.

Furthermore kodi dsplayer needs madvr, a closed source software.
Recently madshi included new sharpen algorithms. Unfortunately he doesn't want to share the code behind them.

Finally the mpv player that is cross-platform becomes more robust on windows and has almost every madvr features and some interesting exclusive ones.

Agreed that a Windows-only player wouldn't likely be included in Kodi, but if the code was already available, I wish it was. Moving away from madVR wouldn't improve anything, though. No other video renderer does as much, even if many other players share features.

The attempt to make madVR proprietary is almost certainly a reflection of the work madshi has put into developing it. It may even become paid software when it reaches 1.0, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to use it. As far as I'm concerned, the price tag of the software I use is optional. It doesn't have to be open source to be good or valued. Software like JRiver is paid in the face of free competition like Kodi and Emby and people still use it.

It is a matter of what people want. Many people want a version of Kodi with madVR.