I just tried this out for the first time and its great but the pics arent as polished as in my 2.4 (may) is.

it might just be that the pics are made to be viewed on a computer and your tv dosen't have as much resolution as a computer has.

>it might just be that the pics are made to be viewed on a computer and your tv dosen't have as much resolution as a computer has.

He's not talking about computer vs. tv.
XBMC Jpeg display is definitely inferior to XBMP Jpeg display. You can actually see more pronounced aliasing effect. Viewing a 800x600 image in 1280x720 resolution instead of 720x480p improves the picture quality, but is still a tad worse than 720x480p in XBMP.

XBMP uses hardware overlays to draw it's pictures, whereas XBMC currently renders the picture texture into a rectangle on screen. The hardware overlays method gains better quality due to the scaling/sampling routines used.

I'll move the XBMC implementation over to use hardware overlays when I get some time.

give it time young grasshappa

OK, I've changed the code to use overlays now - an improvement in quality I think.

Just gotta get the zoom code working again now (overlays mean the zoom code has to be handled differently.)

Update: Zoom code has been redone - all is working nicely now.

Enjoy!

This is wonderful, great job!

Is there any plan to add a "stretch" feature to picture display? (Mainly for displaying 4:3 pictures on 16:9 screen)