Horizontal Distortion Lines with Kodi 16.1/FireTV/Silicon Dust HD HomeRun

[mefree]

So, I am using NextPVR 3.8.3 with renderer codec EVR, Video Decoders CyberLink Video Decoder (PDVD13) and Audio Decover LAV Audio Decoder. NextPVR is running on a very high end machine with a dedicated M2 SSD for DVR recording with a tuner source of a Silicon Dust HD HomeRun with Amazon FireTV's as my clients. Everything is connected to an enterprise grade gigabit switched backbone of dell switches. Here is the problem. When watching live TV or TV Recordings via Kodi on the FireTV's I am getting equally spaced horizontal distortion lines in the video, especially during movement in scenes. Once a scene is no longer moving it goes away, but as soon as people/objects start moving again they come back, with the more movement the more distortion. If I pull up the recordings on the media server itself and watch them in NextPVR there isn't any distortion. So it doesn't seem to be an issue with the tuner/server/PVR recordings/codecs. It seems to be an issue with the NextPVR client on Kodi on a FireTV. Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks!

[sub]

The NextPVR decoder and renderer settings are only relevent when watching in NextPVR itself. When you're watching via Kodi, it'll just come down to the settings in Kodi.

It sounds like you're describing interlacing artifacts, so easily fixed by turning on deinterlacing in Kodi (assuming the FireTV can do deinterlacing).

[mvallevand]

The AFTV is your weak link and does not do a good job with 1080i because it does not have h/w deinterlacing. The effect is exactly as you described, some people don't mind but it drives me crazy. Maybe try different builds of Kodi or SPMC and if all else mabye McMC (I don't like it because of no addons). Since you spent all that money on gear consider other devices http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=252916 Black Friday might help you out.

Martin