2015-11-18, 19:18
No I do not have a Shield, as broadcast TV viewing with fast motion sport, like Aussie Rules Football is important to me.
Basic CPU software deinterlacing is called Bob aka Blurry Bob - it produces a soft unfocused look to Interlaced TV particularly during camera panning of SD content. This is found on Android platforms who's VPU do not, or have no support for Hardware deinterlacing such as devices like the nVIDIA Shield and FireTV's. Very likely, the Nexus and ATV's as well. (confirmation needed)
Next you have the RPi2 that now in Kodi Jarvis uses MMAL Advanced Deinterlacing called Yadifx2. It visually superior, you end up with crisper video and nice edging. The RPi team have done a wonderful job developing this. Popcornmix will know more, but I believe it utilises the GPU to some extent and steals some processing cycles from it. If you pull up the TV EPG whilst this type of deinterlacing is occurring in the background, the Kodi GUI slows down significantly.
AMLogic have Hardware deinterlacing built into their Chips coming out of the VPU (Visual Processing Unit) part of the SoC. The S805, such as that found in the ODROID C1+ has Advanced Motion Adaptive Edge Enhancing deinterlacing. The quality is very similar to that of the RPI2, with more distinct edging due to the video processing that occurs. I like it as it does not slow down Kodi when you do other tasks in the Kodi GUI. Some like Noggin don't like the Edge processed and sharpened look. Its all a personal preference.
The AMLogic S812-H in the Core seems better than the RPi2 or the S805. Deinterlaced video is not overly processed or sharpened and the quality is even better than both of them. It really is good and would rival the following group. AMLogic put SoC's into TV set top boxes I believe, so they know what they are doing.
The top quality deinterlacers for Kodi platforms come from modern Intel Microarchitecture with either inbuilt GPU/VPU's or graphics cards from AMD or nVIDIA. You get names like Motion Adaptive and Motion Compensating deinterlacing, Temporal x2 and Advanced x2. Noggin and the Kodi devs. will know more about about these.
As with any media device choice, you pick the features most important to you, find any known limitations and pick your target.
Basic CPU software deinterlacing is called Bob aka Blurry Bob - it produces a soft unfocused look to Interlaced TV particularly during camera panning of SD content. This is found on Android platforms who's VPU do not, or have no support for Hardware deinterlacing such as devices like the nVIDIA Shield and FireTV's. Very likely, the Nexus and ATV's as well. (confirmation needed)
Next you have the RPi2 that now in Kodi Jarvis uses MMAL Advanced Deinterlacing called Yadifx2. It visually superior, you end up with crisper video and nice edging. The RPi team have done a wonderful job developing this. Popcornmix will know more, but I believe it utilises the GPU to some extent and steals some processing cycles from it. If you pull up the TV EPG whilst this type of deinterlacing is occurring in the background, the Kodi GUI slows down significantly.
AMLogic have Hardware deinterlacing built into their Chips coming out of the VPU (Visual Processing Unit) part of the SoC. The S805, such as that found in the ODROID C1+ has Advanced Motion Adaptive Edge Enhancing deinterlacing. The quality is very similar to that of the RPI2, with more distinct edging due to the video processing that occurs. I like it as it does not slow down Kodi when you do other tasks in the Kodi GUI. Some like Noggin don't like the Edge processed and sharpened look. Its all a personal preference.
The AMLogic S812-H in the Core seems better than the RPi2 or the S805. Deinterlaced video is not overly processed or sharpened and the quality is even better than both of them. It really is good and would rival the following group. AMLogic put SoC's into TV set top boxes I believe, so they know what they are doing.
The top quality deinterlacers for Kodi platforms come from modern Intel Microarchitecture with either inbuilt GPU/VPU's or graphics cards from AMD or nVIDIA. You get names like Motion Adaptive and Motion Compensating deinterlacing, Temporal x2 and Advanced x2. Noggin and the Kodi devs. will know more about about these.
As with any media device choice, you pick the features most important to you, find any known limitations and pick your target.
