Kodi 17.7 DSPlayer x64 (2020 build)

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RE: Kodi 17.7 DSPlayer x64 (2020 build) - brazen1 - 2021-02-17

Kodi v.19 handles UHD HDR iso's with menus perfectly. The functionality isn't available in earlier versions or forks of Kodi so hoping it will come is nothing more than wishful thinking. When using passthrough, they don't look any different than when using madVR with compatible players and you get the benefit of menus and all the other Kodi bells and whistles. If you use Kodi native VideoPlayer for 4k and madVR compatible external player(s) launched from Kodi for everything else less than 4k, you get the best of both worlds. Perfect quality HDR and the highest upscale for less than 2160p. You can manually select any player you want using the 'play using' option if you want to deviate from the automatic player choice you setup in your playercorefactory.xml too. So if you'd rather Kodi play your 1080p video with menus instead of madVR player main movie only, you can. Or vice versa. Every option is in your control either automatically or manually. Just sayin'.

RE: Kodi 17.7 DSPlayer x64 (2020 build) - hentai23 - 2021-02-17

(2021-02-17, 02:48)brazen1 Wrote: Kodi v.19 handles UHD HDR iso's with menus perfectly. The functionality isn't available in earlier versions or forks of Kodi so hoping it will come is nothing more than wishful thinking. When using passthrough, they don't look any different than when using madVR with compatible players and you get the benefit of menus and all the other Kodi bells and whistles. If you use Kodi native VideoPlayer for 4k and madVR compatible external player(s) launched from Kodi for everything else less than 4k, you get the best of both worlds. Perfect quality HDR and the highest upscale for less than 2160p. You can manually select any player you want using the 'play using' option if you want to deviate from the automatic player choice you setup in your playercorefactory.xml too. So if you'd rather Kodi play your 1080p video with menus instead of madVR player main movie only, you can. Or vice versa. Every option is in your control either automatically or manually. Just sayin'.

uhhh...thats exactly what nobody in this thread wants.. aka having an external player used....the entire experience is key and thus dsplayer has been born , your method has been done before dsplayer builds existed yes...by me myself...witch sucked , hence why the push for dsplayer from us folks and as you said then i guess dsplayer build will have to be updated to kodi v19

RE: Kodi 17.7 DSPlayer x64 (2020 build) - MagikMark - 2021-02-22

Braze1,

Do you mind sharing your potplayer configuration file? I noticed in potplayer the app is always scaling the image to fill the entire video screen in order to remove the black bars.
Is there a way to maintain black bars regardless of the screen size?

Thanks

RE: Kodi 17.7 DSPlayer x64 (2020 build) - takisot - 2021-03-01

(2021-02-17, 02:48)brazen1 Wrote: Kodi v.19 handles UHD HDR iso's with menus perfectly. The functionality isn't available in earlier versions or forks of Kodi so hoping it will come is nothing more than wishful thinking. When using passthrough, they don't look any different than when using madVR with compatible players and you get the benefit of menus and all the other Kodi bells and whistles. If you use Kodi native VideoPlayer for 4k and madVR compatible external player(s) launched from Kodi for everything else less than 4k, you get the best of both worlds. Perfect quality HDR and the highest upscale for less than 2160p. You can manually select any player you want using the 'play using' option if you want to deviate from the automatic player choice you setup in your playercorefactory.xml too. So if you'd rather Kodi play your 1080p video with menus instead of madVR player main movie only, you can. Or vice versa. Every option is in your control either automatically or manually. Just sayin'.

Native Kodi player does not compare in quality with a MadVR enabled player , especially with 4K content where you might need the best possible tone mapping solution. If it did, we would not bother installing MadVR.

RE: Kodi 17.7 DSPlayer x64 (2020 build) - robl45 - 2021-03-01

I use it because it supports 3D, otherwise I'd just use normal Kodi.

RE: Kodi 17.7 DSPlayer x64 (2020 build) - brazen1 - 2021-03-01

(2021-03-01, 08:53)takisot Wrote:
(2021-02-17, 02:48)brazen1 Wrote: Kodi v.19 handles UHD HDR iso's with menus perfectly. The functionality isn't available in earlier versions or forks of Kodi so hoping it will come is nothing more than wishful thinking. When using passthrough, they don't look any different than when using madVR with compatible players and you get the benefit of menus and all the other Kodi bells and whistles. If you use Kodi native VideoPlayer for 4k and madVR compatible external player(s) launched from Kodi for everything else less than 4k, you get the best of both worlds. Perfect quality HDR and the highest upscale for less than 2160p. You can manually select any player you want using the 'play using' option if you want to deviate from the automatic player choice you setup in your playercorefactory.xml too. So if you'd rather Kodi play your 1080p video with menus instead of madVR player main movie only, you can. Or vice versa. Every option is in your control either automatically or manually. Just sayin'.

Native Kodi player does not compare in quality with a MadVR enabled player , especially with 4K content where you might need the best possible tone mapping solution. If it did, we would not bother installing MadVR.

No doubt madVR tone maps better than Kodi but not all users "need" to tone map. Many of us passthrough. The subject was about the ability of madVR processed players handling iso's with menus (such as this builds DSPlayer or MPC-HC). They can't. That was the question I see being asked. However, the native Kodi VideoPlayer can. Passing through 2160p HDR looks the same on Kodi VideoPlayer as it does passing through madVR with any of its compatible players.

At the same time, users might want to take advantage of madVR processing when upscaling video less than 4k such as 1080p. So, there is a solution that users can consider.

If passing through, use the Kodi native player. Enjoy 2160p HDR iso's with menus at the same quality passing through with anything else with the added benefit of menus. Same goes for 2160p HDR mkv's etc. If you need to tone map, then use a madVR player and forget about menus. You can easily select either option.

So you're passing through 2160p HDR video using the Kodi native VideoPlayer but now you want to play 1080p video. You'd rather use madVR and a compatible player to upscale that 1080p video to your native 2160p resolution because it's superior to VideoPlayer and you can use the various madVR algo's to refine the video. Well, you can with the understanding you will lose menus with that 1080p iso. (you still have the ability to use VideoPlayer for those menus though).

Setup Kodi to use an external player with madVR. It's simple. Now you have the best of both worlds. A player when you need madVR and a player when you don't based on the differences between the two players and what they do and what they can't do. You can quickly and simply select the player you want to use.

Take it a step further... you don't want to make the selection. Based on your usual viewing habits, you want the player selection to happen automatically. No problem. This is the power of the playercorefactory.xml rules. How you tailor it is up to you and you are in complete control. You can always deviate manually with a couple button presses within Kodi and select a different player. I use 7. All for different circumstances and moods.