I understand that, but as I said if acceleration works out. I have seen acceleration turn screens green on Windows using stuff like PowerDVD, Kodi, et cetera. Sorry, but that's not functional and it isn't always an option. Which is the point you've been missing. I didn't go into as deep of detail, but still saying.
Hardware acceleration isn't an IF, its a feature that works well, if some programs are not coded properly to use it or simply don't support it then that's the failing of the programmers, not the hardware. I personally have no problems getting hardware acceleration to work as its so easy and its supported out of the box by many programs, if powerdvd and kodi are coded so poorly then I would think twice about using them, there are many other free solutions that do work perfectly.
I get that, but I've been talking about SMB + Kodi from the get go and always have been. You're the only one turning it into other protocols & software.
That's fine and it may not work in those programs, but just because they aren't coded well doesn't mean an AMD 955 machine wont make a good playback machine, this is my only contention, an AMD 955 can easily be a perfectly functional playback machine.
Not at all. Again, possibly for web content
I'm sorry, but this is a contradiction. I would say that being capable of web playback is an important component of any playback machine, anyway I do understand you only concerned with smb and kodi local playback. You are stating that just because an AMD 955 can't give good playback with these programs it means its a bad playback machine, this is simply untrue.
I have only been trying to tell you since my first post that an old machine can be used for video playback, I understand you are talking about smb and kodi, but I didn't bring them up because I wasn't ever talking about them.
It pulls tons of media date you store via your share folder. If you're storing everything local it pulls actor photos, bookmarks, meta data, cover art, disc art, et cetera.
Ok, so after a short time all the media data has been pulled to the client, its only a few pics and text, there might be a lot of it, but size wise is not very large when compared to the video files and it isn't being constantly pulled, its loaded and its done, after that its then free to play the video file. I have about 500 films and I used to use kodi, if I remember correctly the client stored a lot of the data locally and just needed the video file streamed.
As mentioned before, I'm not torrenting. Find something on your own if you're wanting to test something. I buy all my media physically. I will admit when I was younger I was into the torrent thing with MP3's. Well not so much torrenting then, but Napster and other nonsense. Regardless, I've grown up and have the money to spend so I have the faintest clue of what is out there. Also, let's not get this thread locked for OP's sake with your talks of torrents.
I'm sorry but I didn't bring it up, you did lol
. I can give my money to a company that illegally provides English tv or I can do it myself for free, money isn't a problem, but I can't legally pay for the services I want, so who's fault is that.
Some people like filters I guess. I've done edits of projects I've made with such filters. Stuff right off my camera I filmed. I sure do not like stuff like Lapsharp, HQDN3D, et cetera when it's not needed. It makes it a bit more smudged and decolored than the original. It tries to hide the lack of pixels. When something isn't shot in that resolution, you can't just add quality because it injects fixes for the missing pixels. Regardless, what looks and sounds good in the end is just subjective I suppose. If you like it, you like it. I'm not here trying to change your mind really.
I don't know much about video upscale editing done to video files, I just know that download was much better than others, but the upscaling methods used by some panels are great, my 4k tv upscales 1080p signals from my, xbox, xbox 360, ps3 and ps4 and wow they look way sharper than any 1080p panel I've seen and its not just me, many friends have commented how much better these 1080p systems look on my 4k tv.
I have found an LG sample video, its HEVC 10.bit H.265 in mkv format, I will try this.
Edit: My transfer rate between my server running 5400rpm Toshiba drives and my gaming rig:
I'm currently uploading a video of the test, which will take some time, if you see any problems or issues with the test then please point them out and I will correct them. I used a HEVC 10-bit 4k mkv LG sample file streamed from my Toshiba 5400rpm hdd server to a AMD Phenom 2 550 with 4gb ram and an RX460: