Hi all,
Home cinema enthusiast are always looking for ways to get the best audio or video quality they can out of their equipment. Usually this comes at a price. Thanks to projects like KODI people can have access to a high quality media player for free.
While most Home Cinema enthusiasts are very happy with the changes made in the recent years to the audio engine (passthrough of HD multichannel formats, WASAPI etc.) some of us may think that on the image side we could do a little better to improve the PQ on our screens (picture quality). While XBMC does not temper with the image from the video sources our screens are not calibrated at the factory and will introduce some errors (skin tones over-saturated, skies or grass not quite right etc).
Usually in high end Home Cinemas people use very expensive video processors that cost several 1000s of $ and get help from a professional calibrators in order to get the best PQ available. While this is a great solution most of us can't afford such equipment. In the past couple of years some people have started using of the shelf consumer level colorimeters and free software to tackle this problem inside the computer itself.
At the moment the best and cheapest solution is to use the combination of a consumer colorimeter, ArgyllCMS, for the creation of high quality 3D video LUT and a DirectShow video player compatible with MadVR such as JRiver or MPC-HC.
Would it be possible to add the option to use 3D LUT correction files within KODI?
Thanks
Damien
Link to guide on color calibration in general
Guide to color calibration using Argyll and MadVR
Images from http://www.curtpalme.com
Home cinema enthusiast are always looking for ways to get the best audio or video quality they can out of their equipment. Usually this comes at a price. Thanks to projects like KODI people can have access to a high quality media player for free.
While most Home Cinema enthusiasts are very happy with the changes made in the recent years to the audio engine (passthrough of HD multichannel formats, WASAPI etc.) some of us may think that on the image side we could do a little better to improve the PQ on our screens (picture quality). While XBMC does not temper with the image from the video sources our screens are not calibrated at the factory and will introduce some errors (skin tones over-saturated, skies or grass not quite right etc).
Usually in high end Home Cinemas people use very expensive video processors that cost several 1000s of $ and get help from a professional calibrators in order to get the best PQ available. While this is a great solution most of us can't afford such equipment. In the past couple of years some people have started using of the shelf consumer level colorimeters and free software to tackle this problem inside the computer itself.
At the moment the best and cheapest solution is to use the combination of a consumer colorimeter, ArgyllCMS, for the creation of high quality 3D video LUT and a DirectShow video player compatible with MadVR such as JRiver or MPC-HC.
Would it be possible to add the option to use 3D LUT correction files within KODI?
Thanks
Damien
Link to guide on color calibration in general
Guide to color calibration using Argyll and MadVR
Images from http://www.curtpalme.com
