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2019-01-19, 14:26
(This post was last modified: 2019-01-19, 14:27 by fritsch.)
It improves the SW decoding (more correctly the Shader based rendering path) ... where needed (old divx files, mpeg-2 with stills, live tv where mediacodec cannot correctly deinterlace in 576i, etc.)
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I know Kodi devs do not like workarounds but with Linux (AML) Kodi settings (and SPMC / MrMC) there are handy options to disable mpeg2/mpeg4/h.264 hardware decode, enable ffmpeg SD content software decode or hardware decode all content.
Which comes in real handy for "corner" video decode cases on ARM platforms - especially Android.
In the end it's Kodi users who benefit from such flexibility with set and forget settings - and a reason why Kodi forks get created in the first place.
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Yeah - as we had this discussion. Not a friend of gui settings in 50 languages for "corner cases" polluting the menu of the other millions that don't need it.
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Your text makes no sense :-) - I think you realize that yourself. As you were the guy wanting to have HW decoding for everything enabled. Guess what you had to do with the switch ... switching it ON and OFF as there are files that don't work with HW acceleration on.
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I also tested lots of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 ASP (DivX, Xvid) and everything plays fine with HW decoding on my Sony BRAVIA (except for the packed bitstream stuff of course).
Especially when playing the older SD stuff, going through the HW pipeline is so much superior with respect to image quality. The scaler on Sony BRAVIA really makes a huge difference.