MXV playing H264 with TONS of artifacting...

[Kevin92]

Has anyone else had this issue? I have a few h264 files(Gurren lagann rips) that play fine on my desktop, and even on a janky old netbook. I made sure the re-upload the files too the storage on the MXV on the off chance there was some trouble in the first transfer.
VLC on computer = Fine
GOM on computer = Fine
Even the PC build of Kodi = Fine

On the MXV tho, which has dedicated chipsets for decoding(something my netbook does not) it looks like a mess when there is a color gradient shift.
I'm using the tronsmart rom, and the files are stored on a USB drive(and also tried on a microSD card, just to make sure there was no transfer issue)

This has not happened with any other files i have played on the thing. Infact it plays H265 files much better than any of my other machines.

[Kevin92]

Bump.
Updated to Jarvis and i'm still getting them. Does no one else have this problem?
I also noticed it in the Free! rips i downloaded.

[shamanNS]

Since it's an anime I'm guessing it's probably 10-bit x264 (aka Hi10p) encode which you can't play using hardware acceleration, you get artifacts.. Or if it's not a case of 10-bit encode maybe it "only" old x264 encode that used some other encoding setting that are not compatible with profiles that can be reproduced via GPU decoding, so you must use CPU to decode those encodes. In that case your computer CPU is probably good enough to do that and MXV's CPU can't do it for sure since it can't handle "normal" 8bit 720p encodes when doing software decoding.

Try disabling hardware acceleration in Kodi setting and then play those problematic files, you should see no artifacts but you will get slow motion reproduction of the video, because MXV's CPU can't handle the software decoding.

Or the easiest thing would be to download and install "MediaInfo" on your PC and check those anime files and see what is there for "Bit depth" under "Video" section of the info window.