Change playback and picture settings

Picture and sound settings live on the player’s Video settings, not in the main Settings. Open it while something is playing. It has three tabs: General, Enhance and Playback.

1. Adjust speed, aspect and zoom (General)

On the General tab set Playback speed from 0.5 times to 2 times, choose an Aspect such as Original, Fit, Fill, 16:9, 4:3 or 2.39:1, and a Zoom level. Subtitle offset nudges subtitles earlier or later if they drift.

2. Tune the picture (Enhance)

The Enhance tab has a Picture profile with presets such as Movie, Sports and Night, and per-setting Adjustments for brightness, contrast and sharpness. Deinterlace handles interlaced channels: leave it on Auto, or set Yadif for stubborn ones.

3. Set decoding and audio (Playback)

The Playback tab covers how streams are handled:

• Hardware acceleration decodes video on the graphics card. Auto is right for almost everyone; the app shows what it detected.
• Audio passthrough sends Dolby and DTS soundtracks to a receiver. Choose AC-3 / DTS or Full (HD) if your receiver decodes them, otherwise leave it Off.
• Buffer length trades responsiveness for stability; raise it on a slow connection.

Video and audio play through the codecs the stream uses; where the graphics card cannot decode a format, playback falls back to the processor automatically.