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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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[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 131 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (64 children)

I am pretty sure many would disagree, but Kodi is complete trash. The whole software is a one massive utter slow bug.

Anything else is better. Jellefin, Plex, VLC, but NOT kodi.

EDIT: Honestly expected downvotes. Looks like I am not the only one who found Kodi basically unusable on any platform.

[–] SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 47 points 11 months ago (23 children)

Don't get the hate for kodi, nor the massive boner that the selfhosted communities here and on reddit have for plex. And how can you compare vlc it's a fifteenth kind of software.

Anyway i won't even downvote, im curious what's the problem with kodi? some of us have been using it for probably 15 years, i have hit a million bugs over the years but never noticed it was unusable? Always used it on some sort of Linux.

[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Well, if you ask me whether it's working? Or can it be used? Yes! It does work and can be used.

But it's like using 2010 smartphone in 2023. It does work, but personally I have zero joy using it.

Kodi is slow, laggy software. Default interface looks ugly. Especially animations - they are laggy and super ugly. Whole interface lags when navigating. As a cherry on top - settings are super non-intuitive and very hard to use. Last few times I used - addons are tend to fail to install or fail to work without bugs, app itself crashed few times (on both Android and Linux). Generally what is the most significant issue with it is it's utter slow performance and UI/UX (ugly/laggy animations, annoying non-synced menu sounds, annoying interface which is very hard to navigate and use).

For example, Jellyfin client is like day & night difference. Settings are easy to use, interface is neat, not laggy and so on.

[–] techgearwhips@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I use Kodi for the Google drive add on to stream and nothing else. So I keep it as bare bones as possible.

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