2014-04-15, 09:35
After comparing the two colour space settings on my HTPC (Intel 4600 graphics), HD material looks a bit more vibrant with the 16-235 setting in XBMC Gotham (windows, recent nightly). I don’t know much about colour space settings but my understanding is that there will be less conversion going on with this setting as most blu rays are encoded as YCbCr 16-235.
A side effect of switching the 16-235 setting is that XBMC menus now look all washed out which is annoying (I assume because they are calibrated to be presented in 0-255 RGB?).
My question is, why does the 16-235 setting have to be applied globally and not just to the video output? Alternatively, am I missing something here and is there a better way to set up my system?
A side effect of switching the 16-235 setting is that XBMC menus now look all washed out which is annoying (I assume because they are calibrated to be presented in 0-255 RGB?).
My question is, why does the 16-235 setting have to be applied globally and not just to the video output? Alternatively, am I missing something here and is there a better way to set up my system?