Android live TV SW decode

[VCR58]

Hi Martin,

While watching live TV with Kodi 19.3 I found that when viewing "Player process info" the player was using SW decoding instead of HW decoding for the video stream on an HD channel (1280x720). Only a channel with a video stream of 1920x1080 was HW decoded. I found that Kodi 18.9 loaded on the same device always used HW decoding, even SD channels would be HW decoded.

After some comparison of the userdata files in the kodi folder, I discovered that in the file "decoderfilter.xml" the settings for mpeg2 were different. This line "<min-height>0</min-height>" was changed to "<min-height>720</min-height>" in Kodi 19 and up. Changing this line back to "<min-height>0</min-height>" caused HW decoding to be used for all live TV video streams.

So, my question is were those settings changed for a reason in "decoderfilter.xml" ? Also, is it ok to modify the settings so that I always get HW decoding when watching TV or will it mess up something else?

Thanks,
Rex

[mvallevand]

First yes it ok to modify the settings, it was changed because of complaints about the SD quality on some Android devices, deinterlacing is often bad but if it works for you great However based on what I have read about this issue 720 should default to HD. I checked a 720p mpeg2video channel here and it is using h/W. Perhaps you were using a mode from the per channel database.

Martin

[VCR58]

...Perhaps you were using a mode from the per channel database. 

Martin

I don't if I am or not. It's always done the same thing on all three of my devices. Do you know how to check that?

[mvallevand]

Sorry I don't that would be a question for the Kodi forum. Maybe turn off Media Codec playback and enable it would reset something?

Martin

[VCR58]

Sorry I don't that would be a question for the Kodi forum.  Maybe turn off Media Codec playback and enable it would reset something?

Martin

Ok I'll mess with it later today. I know that changing it to 480 worked for the HD 128x720 channel but I wonder if it would s/w decode the SD channels.