If you get better performance with HLS Segmenter (not V2), use that. The V2 segmenter has always been experimental (it may perform better at boundaries, but it always has lower quality and also uses more ffmpeg processes).
AMF on Windows is currently limited to encoding. So in all cases you will still be software decoding, software scaling/tonemapping/overlaying, and finally hardware encoding. It's better than not having hardware acceleration, but it's definitely lacking compared to other options (including VAAPI for AMD on Linux).
I'm happy to confirm this behavior for you with a specific troubleshooting example:
- Search for any content using the search bar.
- Use the overflow/three dots menu on content and select Troubleshoot Playback.
- Select the appropriate Playback Settings that trigger the undesired behavior.
- Click Play to start playback.
- Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the undesired behavior is reproduced.
- Click Download Results to have ErsatzTV collect relevant troubleshooting logs (FFmpeg log, FFmpeg Profile, Hardware Capabilities, Media Info, etc) and compress them in a zip file.
- Post the zip here or in the discord support channel https://discord.ersatztv.org along with a description of the problem to receive help.