I recently started using Kodi for my linux distro collection, but some videos look terrible in comparison to when played in VLC. See attached picture with screengrabs from VLC and Kodi of the same frame in an MKV 1080p h.265 file. What could be the issue? I didn’t change any video settings in either

  • Martin
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    -11 year ago

    I’m also tired of Kodi but I constantly come back to it. The one thing that Kodi does better than all the rest is the handling of subtitles. I try to use Jellyfin instead but I constantly have to switch back to Kodi because there are no ways (from within the app) to find and download new subtitles.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      You can definitely search and download subtitles using both jellyfin app and webapp. I do this all the times.

      • Martin
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        1 year ago

        But not on the Android TV app.

        But thanks anyway, I actually didn’t know that downloading subtitles was supported on other platforms. This should att least allow me to download subtitles via the phone. A bit more cumbersome than having it directly in the app as for Kodi though.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          if you are using sonarr and radarr and don’t know about bazarr, check it out. it’s a companion app for searching and downloading subtitles for your media

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I don’t have Android TV so I didn’t know that. Since that’s a feature available in every jellyfin app I own (android, osx, windows, Linux, web) I assumed it was available everywhere.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        jellyfin app

        You can from e.g. the Android app or from the desktop app Jellyfin Media Player, but you can’t from the AndroidTV app or the Roku app, so it really depends.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I am switching codec between Libvlc and exoplayer. Sometimes one doesn’t work, while the other works. It’s still better to me than Kodi.

      • Martin
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        21 year ago

        How does switching the codec help with downloading subtitles from the web?

      • Martin
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        51 year ago

        Is using the Android TV app considered “using it wrong”? Because that doesn’t support downloading subtitles.