(2020-07-27, 00:15)black_eagle Wrote: (2020-07-25, 22:04)alexpigment Wrote: Just wanted to update this thread. I was able to 'fix' this by installing Kodi 15. Now I can select "DXVA - Best" and there's no more jitter on interlaced material. Not sure what all features I'm missing between 15 and 18, but I can at least say that all my videos are working properly
Although I can perfectly understand why you would do this, it isn't a 'fix' that helps anyone but you. As a team, we'd rather that we could fix the issue going forwards (not backwards) and roll that out to everyone by understanding what has changed. If you're happy to stick with an old version because "this bit works" then that's fine but be aware that the team won't help support any issues with that. It also doesn't help us progress. Things are changed for a reason. Usually, the reason is clear and lots of testing is done but sometimes things get accidentally broken.
I'm not saying that this is the case here because I honestly don't know, but I do know that as a team, we would prefer to fix things going forward rather than have users revert to older versions. debug log (wiki)'s from a working and a not-working version would be a good start. However, devs work on stuff that interests them. We all do this for free and in our spare time so some fixes come quicker than others and some don't come at all!
From your comments you seem pretty clued-up about the video aspect so maybe you could help debug this and find a better solution than using v15 
Sure, I completely understand it. I worked at a software company for almost 10 years, and it was always hard to support older versions for people who could not adequately describe why they went back to an earlier version. It also doesn't help the software progress. Totally get it.
I do plan on submitting a bug report for the issue where my VOB files with PCM audio don't have sound in the current version. I just need a little bit of time to figure out the details, like:
1) Is this specific to certain video files, or does it occur for any file with conditions A, B, & C present. To be clear, so many DVDs have PCM audio that I would assume it's a bit more specific than that, otherwise people would have been reporting it left and right.
2) Does this occur on one system or multiple.
3) Does the sound setup (e.g. HDMI audio to the TV, then optical audio to a receiver in my case) play a part.
I'm a bit short on time at the moment, but I do promise to get this done sometime soon. However, I do believe there is still value in knowing an old bug exists in one version and not another; you are almost certainly going to have people that can't use the newest version because of some reason, and you can't reasonably expect them to wait until a potentially niche bug gets fixed by a developer who works for free and cherrypicks the ones they want to tackle
