[Klojum]

believe i have deleted all the banned addons

Considering the number of remaining modules still existing on your Kodi device, starting with a all new & clean Kodi profile is the best and quickest solution.

FYI: all entries colored orange in the addons section in your uploaded log file are considered banned.

[Browny567]

The forum moderators have determined that banned addons (wiki) are present on your system. To receive assistance here, these banned items must be removed. If a clean log is not submitted within 3 days, then the relevant post(s) will be removed after this time.

@Karellen @sualfred @Klojum  

okay uninstalled and reinstalled kodi completely as that was easier so there should be no banned addons now

still having the problem and no advanced settings

https://paste.kodi.tv/navahayupu.kodi

[Browny567]

The forum moderators have determined that banned addons (wiki) are present on your system. To receive assistance here, these banned items must be removed. If a clean log is not submitted within 3 days, then the relevant post(s) will be removed after this time.

@Karellen @sualfred @Klojum  

okay uninstalled and reinstalled kodi completely as that was easier so there should be no banned addons now

still having the problem and no advanced settings

https://paste.kodi.tv/navahayupu.kodi 

anyone have any ideas on how i might be able to fix this?

[Klojum]

This would be fine except for the fact it appears it’s still trying to have the resolution in 1000x1500 where as the fanart is in 1920x1080 and makes the image look like terrible quality because it compresses it.
I’d love to still use the fanart images

There is no option to use two (or more) different different cached thumbnails in Kodi. Once posters or fanart have been cached, that's it.
So if one skin is using fanart differently, that can be a problem. *Maybe* Kodi's thmbnail process needs some attention, but I take it's all built around speed so the who cache gets created as quickly as possible. Quality is secondary to that.

How I see it: pick your favorite skin, and if necessary, dump your local cache folder and the Textures13.db file, and have Kodi rebuild the cache over time.

[Karellen]

Maybe add this to your advancedsettings.xml... https://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings....ry_artwork

[Browny567]

Maybe add this to your advancedsettings.xml... https://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings....ry_artwork

Those are some of the settings I have tried and unfortunately didn’t make any difference :/

[Browny567]

Anymore ideas?

[sualfred]

I guess it's related to the running resolution:

Code:

Desktop Resolution: 1366x768 32Bit at 24Hz

The skin is designed for 1080p, so the artworks and the UI get shrinked a lot.

[Browny567]

I guess it's related to the running resolution:

Code:

Desktop Resolution: 1366x768 32Bit at 24Hz

The skin is designed for 1080p, so the artworks and the UI get shrinked a lot.

yeah unfortunately that is the highest resolution i can go.
guess when i get my new pc later in the year i'll be able to find out if that is the issue.

[Joco1114]

Same here like @, but I think the problem comes from themoviedb.org. If I scan movies with imdb scraper, every image are good quality. But if I use tmdb scraper or imdb with tmdb (posters and actors) a lot of images are very bad quality like the samples below.

Some examples:
Bad quality: https://imgur.com/ODhIcqN
After manual refresh: https://imgur.com/TopByYJ

More samples: https://imgur.com/CQiMhUZ

Maybe it depends on the movies numbers to scrape (500+) and the request send to tbdm (internet speed is gigabit/sec).

Mod: I have 4k projector with nvidia Shield.

[Joco1114]

Addition:
I've checked the original picture quality (on tmdb.org, but I think it's same): if the scraped picture is bigger, the quality will worse. For example Ian McShane profile picture is 2000x3000, his picture is really bad. Robert Downey Jr.'s picture is 700x1050, so he has a good quality.
If the profile picture (or poster) is bigger than 1000x1500, the deterioration will visible. Maybe the image scaling algorithm is not so good?
I've tried to install another kodi fork (SPMC), with it everything is normal, so I thing there is a problem with img scaling.
Any idea?

[Karellen]

@Joco1114

If you add the following to your advancedsettings.xml file, does the quality improve?

xml:
	<imageres>9999</imageres>

	<fanartres>9999</fanartres>

You can also try changing the scaling algorithm... https://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings....galgorithm

[Joco1114]

@Joco1114

If you add the following to your advancedsettings.xml file, does the quality improve?

xml:
 <imageres>9999</imageres>

<fanartres>9999</fanartres>

You can also try changing the scaling algorithm... https://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings....galgorithm

Thank you, I've tried it yet, that was my first idea too. Nothing happened. If I open the thumbnail of an actor, it seems quite OK.
BTW I've tried it on Windows 10 and Android too with same result. The huge images are always noisy, spotted, the medium quality images are changing randomly. Interesting: a bit later a lot of problem disappear, the images going to clean, but not Ian McShane.

[Joco1114]

I checked more closely the advancedsettings.xml settings. I don't want to be happy too soon, but it seems to be working on Windows 10:

<advancedsettings version="1.0">
    <enablehighqualityhwscalers>true</enablehighqualityhwscalers>
    <imagescalingalgorithm>lanczos</imagescalingalgorithm>
</advancedsettings>

I'm not sure the hardware scaler works on Android, but hope...

[Karellen]

Should be...

xml:
<advancedsettings version="1.0">

    <video>

         <enablehighqualityhwscalers>true</enablehighqualityhwscalers>

    </video>

    <imagescalingalgorithm>lanczos</imagescalingalgorithm>

</advancedsettings>

So if it is looking better, then <enablehighqualityhwscalers> is not needed as it was not added correctly. It is used for video playback not images.