2016-04-11, 16:40
Personally I tend to prefer the transparency offered by madVR in displaying what is happening "behind the scenes". The information Kodi provides is not enough, IMHO, to properly judge playback performance. Refresh rates, frames dropped, frames repeated, resizing algorithms... in Kodi this all kinda disappears. Also, with madVR you have the opportunity to really crank quality settings for low resolution files, squeezing out maximum quality from them.
But yeah, for me it's more about transparency than anything else.
As far as decoding performance is concerned, you might be ahead of the curve with DSPlayer due to the ability of following developments more closely. Kodi updates FFMPEG every once in a while (which is fine, really), so it happens that, from time to time, you need to wait a little bit for the latest and greatest.
As an aside, what I currently think is that aracnoz should have abandoned, at least temporarily, the idea of allowing madVR configuration completely from inside Kodi, while keeping the awesome GUI for filtersconfig.xml and mediasconfig.xml. madVR is too much of a moving target currently, you risk burnout by keeping up (although I'm painfully aware that that was not probably what made him stop).
But yeah, for me it's more about transparency than anything else.
As far as decoding performance is concerned, you might be ahead of the curve with DSPlayer due to the ability of following developments more closely. Kodi updates FFMPEG every once in a while (which is fine, really), so it happens that, from time to time, you need to wait a little bit for the latest and greatest.
As an aside, what I currently think is that aracnoz should have abandoned, at least temporarily, the idea of allowing madVR configuration completely from inside Kodi, while keeping the awesome GUI for filtersconfig.xml and mediasconfig.xml. madVR is too much of a moving target currently, you risk burnout by keeping up (although I'm painfully aware that that was not probably what made him stop).
