RasPi 4 / PVR - Interlaced Sources

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#1

Hi all,

I just bought a new Raspberry 4/4GB to use it with OSMC. The 4k picture is great as also the GUI performance is. BUT I mainly use OSMC for LiveTV (Public TV with HD content) in combination with TVHeadend. I started with the thought that the missing HW-Acceleration of the RPi4 is already compensated by SW-Algorithms which also supports interlaced material.

My conclusion after trying out a bit - back to RPi3B+ because interlaced sources aren’t watchable with an RPi4 and latest/recent OSMC (incl. all updates).

Is it correct or did I miss something important???

Best Regards from Hamburg
Michael

#2

This was covered on the blog with release notes. Unfortunately there is no hardware deinterlacing at this time making it rather unusable for Live TV.

#3

Thanks for the fast answer - I’ll read the ReleaseNotes more carefully next time before I post something - promised. But for me it means back to RPi3B+ (with enabled HW-Codec) and OSMC 2020-11.1 with Kodi18, right?

Is there any chance that RPi4/OSMC will ever support HD LiveTV (1080i) e.g. with sw-deinterlacing?

#4

Yes.