Poor video playback quality on Kodi

Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 139 points – 10 months ago

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

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i like jellyfin, but I've found that the roku jellyfin app throws an error trying to play some of my media. So I'm still using Plex for now

I don’t use jellyfin but I do use Emby with my Roku. The problem seemed to be with .mp4 files. I transcode all my movies to mkv and no problems now.

well I'll give that a shot. thanks!