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I was going to make a new thread for an issue I'm having with Kodi, but I decided to check in here first. 

Sometime ago I switched from Krypton to Leia (Nightly), as I was having some issues with Krypton which just didn't resolve. I experienced none of those issues with Leia and everything seems to be working better for me in Leia then it did in Krypton. 

There was one video playback issue I encountered in Leia, which I did resolve, however, wanted to see if I could learn more about it. 

For as long as I can remember, I always had the following under Settings -> Player Settings -> Video -> Processing for all versions of Kodi I've used. I don't ever remember touching these settings as I never had any issues with video playback.

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Essentially, Render Method was selected as "Auto" and DXVA2 processing was "On".

After I switched to Leia, I was getting choppy/jerky video playback. Nothing had changed (hardware, software, settings), I had simply upgraded from Krypton to Leia. The playback reminded me of playing a 24p video when your frame rate is set to 60hz instead of 24hz. 

A quick Google search brought me to a post where someone recommended switching Render Method to "Software" and turning off DXVA2. As soon as I did that, lo & behold, all my videos played perfectly smooth. Choppiness was gone. And therefore these are my settings with Leia now.

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It works fine. 

My question is, why? Why did I need to change this with Leia? The hardware & software is exactly the same. Intel Core i7-6800K CPU. nVidia GTX 1080 8GB GPU. 16GB DDR4 RAM. ASUS X99-A II MB. Windows 10 Pro x64 OS. All components remain the same.

More importantly, am I "losing" anything, in terms of PQ, Video, etc., by switching render method to software & turning off DXVA2 hardware acceleration? Or does it not matter?

Thanks!
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RE: Kodi 3D Guide - by brazen1 - 2015-06-15, 22:20
RE: Kodi 3D Guide - by brazen1 - 2015-06-15, 22:29
RE: Kodi 3D Guide - by michaelsammler - 2015-06-22, 00:38
RE: Kodi 3D Guide - by brazen1 - 2015-06-23, 17:15
RE: Kodi 3D Guide - by michaelsammler - 2015-06-24, 02:23
RE: Kodi 3D Guide - by brazen1 - 2015-06-24, 17:22
RE: Kodi 3D Guide - by michaelsammler - 2015-06-25, 09:26
RE: HOW TO - Kodi 2D - 3D - UHD (4k) HDR Guide Internal & External Players - by luci5r - 2018-01-09, 23:53
HELP! - by brazen1 - 2018-08-22, 18:50
RE: HELP! - by zxaura1 - 2018-08-24, 09:32
Problem with DXVA scaling videos - by obstler - 2018-10-27, 10:13
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