Xbox One video quality (1080p MKV)

[Maciek]

Hi folks!

First of all, thank you for bringing VLC to Xbox One. I'm a long time VLC user, installing that app on my console was a no brainer. It works really well, plays all of my media, it's quite stable, and the UI is convinient.

BUT.

I use the Xbox One VLC app to watch my videos stored on my NAS via SMB. Most of them are Full HD MKV files. And the quality of the picture is actually quite medicore. I used the default Microsoft Media Player for comparision (which is not good for me, because it doesn't support srt subtitles or any subtitles at all) and the difference is quite obvious. Watching a 15 GB movie on XB1 VLC looks like watching a 3 GB movie (resolution, compression, difficult to tell what's exactly an issue). I'm quite sure it's got nothing to do with the configuration of my NAS (Microsoft app does not have that issue, I've also tried Duplex Media Player from Windows Store, also produces higher quality, but the app itself is unstable and poorly written).

Why is that happening? Is it just me, or is it a general issue with VLC for Xbox One? And if it is an issue, will it be fixed, or is Xbox One, for some reason, not good enough?