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Thank you I will test today.
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Then let's keep it disabled. This dump fixing won't solve the root cause anyways.
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Thanks I have reverted to a build which uses SW decode for SD streams. Am I right in saying that hardware de-interlacing on Fire TV is not expected to work?
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HW deinterlacing only work when using Surface. And this does "internally" whatever it wants. For normal Mediacodec we can deinterlace via GLES in the render (BOB). For SW decoding I think there is even YADIF. YADIF half should perhaps work on the cpu.
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Yes, for SW decoding there is YADIF (according to codecinfo) and the picture is cleanly de-intelaced and smoothly rendered. (On a quad core Fire TV, the CPU runs about 180-200%)
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Yadif half should be less intrusive.
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2017-01-16, 09:44
(This post was last modified: 2017-01-16, 09:47 by spiderlane.)
Yeah it is. CPU around 120% with that option. Still plenty of headroom with YADIF mind you - is that the higher quality option? (I didn't spend much time comparing the final picture with the different options)
(I guess on the dual core Fire Stick YADIF half would be a better option)
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One does not know: Surface does whatever the firmware likes. In fact I have met very few people that did not visually like yadif.
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Yadif is better than yadif half, yes. HW (surface) deinterlaces internally, the quality is not influenced by kodi.
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Out of interest fritsch, what is your preferred hardware/OS combination for Kodi?