[iHomer]

TvH and deinterlaced output picture quality for the majority or AMLogic devices has never been that good since Android Kodi started using Mediacodec only hardware decoding.

There are bugs in the underlying Android EXOplayer too with AMLogic hardware, so interlaced content watched using Android TV Live Channels is no good either.

Deinterlaced picture outputs are half motion, which is not good at all for sports containing lots of movement. And SD mpeg2 content appears blocky. The deinterlaced picture is also dull vs what it should be.

These are known problems, that have not been fixed in years. They look very low priority for bug fixing.

The exact same Chipset in other devices , using AMLcodec hardware decoding with Linux Kodi (LibreELEC/ CoreELEC) produces great full motion deinterlacing, with the best picture output quality now being the produced by the AMLogic S922X.

Thank you very much for the clarification, I had read something about bad deinterlacing capabilities of the AMLogic hardware but never really thought that it was the responsible for the "stuttering" image experience.

I have to say that the image quality per se is quite on pair with the rPi 3 Kodi experience, I only feel that it's not smooth.

Being the problem that deinterlacing issue I wonder if I could do the deinterlacing in my TVHeadend server so it doesn't have to be done in the client. Thank you, I'll look for a solution there (if I can ever manage to fix that)