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Hi,
I'm running XBMC 12.3 on Mac OS 10.6.8 (yes i know, old, let's not go there, thanks).
I have a number of highres MKV files that "look like crap" (sorry, no other term comes to mind) when playing in XBMC, but they look crystal-clear if I play them with MPlayer Extended for Mac OS X.
Is there a way to improve XBMC in that area? Replace the codecs that come with it, or maybe even recompiling it with different options?
What kind of information would help someone here to help me fix this?
Cheers,
MH
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Anime -> 10bit.
Try switching shader support (settings->video->player) till you get the appropriate image.
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Lemmy
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won't that mess with the quality of other videos? Right now I have that on auto, I've already tried GLGS with no success.
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I can set the shaders to one out of "Auto", "Software", "Basic", and "Advanced (GLGS)". On Software I don't get any picture at all, and any of the rest gives me the bad image from the screenshots.
Worth a try tho. Any other things I could try?
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I would note that I do think there is a relatively widespread issue here. I see visual glitches similar to the screenshot from OP. I have several files that play perfectly in VLC 2.1 on Mavericks but have all kinds of video glitches in XBMC 12.3 as well as the 2/21/14 Gotham nightly. The files I'm dealing with are straight unmodified Blu-ray rips.
I have tried switching between Auto and Advanced shaders to no avail. Have not tried Software or Basic. Happy to post screenshots/logs as well as the OP, but will assume that OP's data is sufficient.
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I played 3 separate 10bit samples last night on current master. Regardless of what settings I configured (with the exception of Software which appears broken - will investigate) they played perfectly.
Thus, it's something to do either with versioning of the OS or a particular file or something else.
I'd suggest the first step is to get everyone testing the same file. i.e. provide a sample that CLEARLY shows the fault. If necessary, screenshot exactly what to look for.
Then several folk can test and we can start narrowing things down.
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I don't think it is something "to do with a particular file", since it pretty much hits half of what I have in my XBMC library right now... all animes, all .mkv, all h264 encoded as far as i can see. Will "take a survey" later (much later, 1wk business trip coming).
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What I mean is that you know what to look for in the particular file (whatever it may be). All I can do is download random 10bit files and hope I see something similar to what you describe.
Without testing the same sample, we're still in guessing mode and not in troubleshooting mode.
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do a ful -> widowed -> full cycle and report back. "\" will toggle it.
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That's a different issue. The OPs problem is 10bit specific.