2015-09-20, 03:03
(2015-09-20, 02:14)noggin Wrote:(2015-09-20, 01:09)VirtualRain Wrote: What's not clear, is what turning off "prefer VAAPI render mode" does in OE5/Kodi14.2... It appears to have no consequence on my video quality, but as I said, I only watch 24p material... not TV and I have relatively powerful CPU so software rendering is probably just fine. I guess if you really need that option enabled then yes, these experimental builds are helpfu... but I keep saying, no where does it articulate exactly who would benefit from this.
VAAPI rendering is particularly useful if you watch interlaced content. This is because it allows for hardware deinterlacing, whereas if you deselect VAAPI rendering, whilst you can still benefit from VAAPI hardware decode of the codec (H264, VC-1, MPEG2 etc.) you won't benefit from hardware deinterlacing, and will have to use software deinterlacing. This is CPU-intensive, and low-end CPUs will only be able to do relatively low-quality deinterlaces. The same CPU/GPU combos can deliver high quality hardware deinterlacing if VAAPI rendering is enabled.
Lots of us use Kodi to watch Live and Recorded TV, and some of this is native interlaced, so deinterlacing performance is important to some of us.
Yes... I think you mentioned this earlier. And I appreciate it. You are very helpful.
I think this should be posted at the top of post #1... It's incredibly helpful in explaining what's going on in this thread and who can benefit. It would help attract the right kind of testers and keep the wrong ones from dragging this down.
My best to all here, especially all you hardcore developers and testers for pushing things forward.