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R – Wondering if it’s better sometime to use software decoders for ‘quality’ reasons.
Need some help: so I have the Intel NUC N3050 and have been happy with it. I have Libreelec with Kodi 16 and I’m just curious about software video decoding. Would there be any situation whereby you could get better ‘quality’ video from software decoding as opposed to hardware decoding?
I have hardware decoding switched on and have been led to believe that you should keep it on. But with a powerful enough machine you could run in software mode. Software can be updated so I was wondering if the software decoders on Libreelec/Kodi would be superior (picture quality wise) to the hardware decoders in my Intel Braswell NUC.