2015-09-28, 11:05
Most television are either A) fixed to limited range, which is what that test is for, or B) able to auto-detect the range of the signal and adjust accordingly.
With this test build, it's ALWAYS outputting full range RGB. The "Use Limited Range" tick box manually adjusts the system to output limited range, but it does not produce a signal that can be auto-detected by televisions as limited range - so on a TV that supports full range, ticking that box will only make the picture appear washed out. However, it will look fine on a television fixed to limited range, or one that can be manually forced into limited range mode.
If your primary Kodi purpose is video watching, you actually DO want limited range output, because that's how videos are encoded and color spaces don't need to be converted. When outputting full range, 16-235 video content must be expanded to 0-255, which isn't that bad now thanks to the new dithering option, but still a conversion it would be nice to avoid. :-)
With this test build, it's ALWAYS outputting full range RGB. The "Use Limited Range" tick box manually adjusts the system to output limited range, but it does not produce a signal that can be auto-detected by televisions as limited range - so on a TV that supports full range, ticking that box will only make the picture appear washed out. However, it will look fine on a television fixed to limited range, or one that can be manually forced into limited range mode.
If your primary Kodi purpose is video watching, you actually DO want limited range output, because that's how videos are encoded and color spaces don't need to be converted. When outputting full range, 16-235 video content must be expanded to 0-255, which isn't that bad now thanks to the new dithering option, but still a conversion it would be nice to avoid. :-)
