My first day using iptv66

[ilan]

@ftawizzards: i know i know, im gonna hear about it - "they are all the same" - and my reply is, hogwash

I doubt they're going to change their business model just to prove to you the streams are the same.

[tuxen]

I'm already on Kodi 16 and my boxes are 2 different windows computers (core i5 laptop & core is htpc) with 2 different graphic cards.

I don't see really with I would need to change the settings for iptv66 when I don't need to do it with other iptv providers or stream sources that I use on Kodi. But as you said it won't hurt trying


Unfortunately I agree with you... even if I consider that the HD channels of "others" don't look like really like HD, they do have considerable better image quality.

On top of that you need to have the ratio of some channels showing black band in the sides (i.e: History channels).

Let's just wait for this to improve soon. Hopefully it will while my monthly subscription lasts

i'm not saying you need to change settings, what i'm saying is the method they currently use for encoding is handled bad by some devices that cant show the picture as intended.
the eco system nfps use is designed for mag and avov boxes that have a license with infomir that developed both the middleware server software and mag boxes.

why they likely tried this method is because some parts of the world or for other odd reasons ppl where experiencing buffering, as I said interlacing is a somewhat clever way to cut the bandwidth in half. and I think they tried this to satisfy more customers. instead now everybody is complaining about weird artifacts and we do not see many complain about buffering anymore. again I know it sounds silly but their model has no obligation with 3rd party clients. we are just lucky that someone has developed clients for kodi, and that the pvr client has login/password, as you probably know iptv stalker is not maintained by anyone anymore and does not have this option.

updating kodi is not really a setting, but the player handles the streams better. if you read around the net this format has always been very hard to output properly with kodi, especially with other pvr clients that take the signal from a digital tuner, that is because digital broadcasters use this widely too. 1080i is probably the most used, but it usually goes to a sat box or straight to the tv and not through a pc. ppl using kodi pvr constantly grab parts of their stream and send back to the kodi devs. to better this, and it has significantly improved in kodi 16, the changelog also mentions this.

the setting I mentioned dont really do much, and is a personal preference if your box can show the stream correctly. as I said I have iks66 (and rocket mr. handicapman) and the picture on the most popular channels looks very far from the screen shots.

interlace does not really exist in the pc/computer world everything is progressive, it was tried with early computers such as the amiga but a desktop shows way to much flicker for it to be used in the computer world and it was skipped early on. as said read around the net and you will see kodi is constantly updating their player to be able to show pvr content properly and this is not from stalker or nfps, they just followed a broadcast standard that is hard to display for some devices especially pc's. contrary some (android) boxes like mag and avov and others are designed to output interlaced streams.

that being said I too hope they switch back to progressive, I hope all do. interlace is old not all can display it and it has caveats in the picture quality even if shown properly.

[tito1982]

Thanks tuxen for replying with an explanation and not just a one-line-rude-comment

Then I understand thst you use a mag/avov box, right? I thought it would work better using Kodi from a computer because the computers are more powerful but now you just explained why it won't.

Buying a mag/avov box is not an option for me as I don't want to invest on a device that could be obsolete soon or a service that could be shutdown... so I just have to wait and see if they slowly increase the resolution or try a different service.

Again thanks for the explanations. I really appreciate it

[tuxen]

tito nope i'm using a fire tv as primary device, I knew the chipset could output interlace but it has not been without issues, and as said only kodi 16 shows it correctly I had odd panning issues with kodi 15. as I also mentioned they re-coded the whole gpu accelerator library for android and introduced mediacodec surface for redering, the one previously used was started as a hack and had lots of bugs. I also have a noname box in the bedroom btw. and a old rpi for my gf's kids.