1080i/50 playback (Vero 4K, August release)

[angry.sardine]

@pameijer

Thanks for the patterns! They are great for testing and making this hobby fun.

See this post for a list of things you can get from those test clips:

[TESTING] Kodi v19 builds for Vero 4K / 4K +

If you do ever want to get into possible future enhancements, here are other things you can usefully get from those test clips; but let me just reiterate that these issues also happen in 3.14/Leia, so you presumably shouldn’t be looking at them now. The 480i wedge pattern decoded in software is deinterlaced correctly. Decoded in hardware you get a massive moiré pattern in the horizontal wedge, centered on the 240 mark. This indicates that it’s being deinterlaced as video instead of film. T…

And I guess also this one:

[TESTING] Kodi v19 builds for Vero 4K / 4K +

Okay, good! The issue with (I guess?) VC-1 decoding is a lot more subtle, to be fair. Again, if you turn off hardware decoding, the 1080i wedge pattern plays perfectly - that gives you a reference. To give you an idea of what you’re looking for, try playing it with hardware decoding and deinterlacing set to Auto-Select. If you look carefully, you can see two different sets of artefacts: at the left edge of the horizontal wedge and centred on the 540 mark, there’s some …