1080 choppy video – Max CPU

The story:
I have a Matricom G-box PC running Kodi on top of ubuntu OS. The htpc is pointed to my main PC hard drive (windows) for media and has worked fine for some time. I recently ran a system update on ubuntu…which in turn updated Kodi to the newest version (I don’t even know what my old version was). I had to remap to windows (which was a pain) but I also have a issue which I recall resolving originally way back when I first set things up…but just cannot seem to find the setting to fix it again this time around.

The problem:
All files run smoothly except 1080 which seems to spike my CPU on the device to 100% causing choppy video. 720 runs fine with no trouble. Its gotta be a setting somewhere as again, I recall fixing this type of issue sometime in the past, but new update looks to have broken it again.

The troubleshooting:
Toggled deinterlacing settings
Messed with hardware acceleration settings (enabled, disabled, etc)
Toggled ‘adjust refresh rate’ settings
Searched forums for other possible solutions

The logs:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/24157249/

I appreciate your help. Thank you!