[Feature Request] MrMC - Video Scaling Tweaks and Extra Video Scaling Method

[ghost]

1. Include "lanczos3 - optimized" as a video scaling method.

Would appreciate including lanczos's 3.0 video scaling method in the next update. The scaling 1080p --> 2160p made by lanczos (also known as "lanczos3 - optimized" on SPMC) produced splendid results in comparison to Nearest Neighbor and Bilinear.

2. Automatically disable Hardware Acceleration - MediaCodec (Surface) when loading a video with a lesser resolution than your display.

This is so the stream would automatically upscale the video. It's somewhat important to have this setting for convenience's sake as that setting must be enabled to allow the Shield TV to play HDR 10-bit content. Going into the settings to disable/enable the item is somewhat annoying.

[davilla]

Not sure what you mean by ''the stream would automatically upscale the video', if you play say, 1080p HEVC on a 4K display, why would you not want MediaCodec(surface) to handle it ?

[ghost]

To my knowledge the Kodi player cannot do both (upscale AND play HDR content) as once explained by classicjazz on the SPMC Wiki page.

When Media Codec (Surface) is disabled, Kodi disables HDR but can enables upscale/deinterlacing.
When Media Codec (Surface) is enabled, Kodi enables HDR but disables video upscaling and deinterlacing.

This setting resides in the MrMC menu and requires every time changing if one is to play alternatively 4K titles followed by 1080p/720p titles. Hence an "Auto" switch of some sorts to fix the issue.

Unless this is an SPMC only problem (which I don't believe it was).

[roblav96]

@mihaiqc

Hence an "Auto" switch of some sorts to fix the issue.

I second that for sure. My Sony x900f has a manual HDR setting which is nice, but then I have to turn it back to auto when watching Youtube TV or Netflix or the colors are way too vibrant.