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Modren @Modren8/5/2023, 12:05 AM

frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe

Daria @hkr8/4/2023, 8:51 PM

Normal people: Buy a TV, click on the netflix app, chooses movie. "Wow the picture looks so good!"

Me: "Okay so the appleTV cannot direct play Dolby TrueHD/DTS:X but the server can transcode the audio to flac, but this disables any height information so it's just a 7.1 mix. The Nvidia Shield Pro can do passthru however so height tracks play properly, but the Shield is unable to send a 480p24 signal to the TV for upscaling, instead upscaling to 720p60 if "play original quality" is on. If I disable that the shield upscales everything to 2160p and plays at the original frame rate, but the upscaling on the shield blows ass and I'd prefer if the TV did any upscaling. The obvious solution is to use both depending on what content I'm playing, but because I have to hook them up directly to the soundbar (because my TV doesn't pass DTS audio over eARC) I don't have enough ports. The real solution is to buy a proper AV receiver. I suppose I could manually enable the height channels on the soundbar when using the appleTV, but I worry that the mix won't be proper then, and I'd like to solve some of the fringe codec issues the AppleTV has."

#home theater #I am in hell #No one told me plex finally updated the android app to support direct play with .ass subtitles #but I think the latest shield system update disabled the 480p24 options #Physical Media mostly just works

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Jama @Jama8/4/2023, 8:55 PM

D... Does going through that much effort make much of a difference in the end result?

Daria @hkr8/4/2023, 8:58 PM

short answer: YES

long answer: if you never internalized what 3:2 pulldown is, don't care about surround sound and have no idea what the difference between HDR10 and Dolby Vision is, probably not.

Jama @Jama8/4/2023, 8:59 PM

Sometimes I am glad my eyes are like dial up and I cannot tell the difference between 720 and 1080p.

Good luck with your... Audio-visual-network-engineering! Hope you can get it to work properly!

@aune8/4/2023, 9:00 PM

good lord i can't stand how all this shit seems to be getting worse somehow

i don't know, i have a ton of things that suddenly Won't Stream Over Plex and uggggggh

nys @nys8/4/2023, 9:42 PM

Buying an HDFury VROOOOOOOOOOOOOM solved so many of my woes introduced by getting a sonos arc.

The VROOOM is pretty overpriced but if all your audio is HDMI then HDFury has some cheaper options that will definitely satisfy your needs (as switchers and eARC splitters, also they have network interfaces for control) more than a receiver because despite the receivers I got supporting enough bandwidth for Dolby Vision 4k60 the firmware shits itself 🫠 and I don’t want to spend the amount I need for a better receiver that won’t even allow me to do the intermediate step of splitting out my eARC.

ahundred T. wolfsatyr @wolfsatyr8/5/2023, 1:54 AM

I'm almost glad i don't have the knowledge, wherewithal, or problem-solving skills to attempt to solve any of the problems i have with video.

Tho i'd really like to do away with artifacts in dark scenes. Banding is bad enough.

Daria @hkr8/5/2023, 2:01 AM

as far as I can tell, this is life now. Streaming absolutely does not have enough bandwidth to fix it, and I've seen the issue on discs as well, meaning with some stuff, there's just no getting around it.

okänd @okand8/5/2023, 4:32 AM

Very relatable. I’ve been stuck in the same situation regarding TrueHD+Atmos and DTS:X on the Apple TV for years. In the end I just gave up and will have to settle for only getting atmos when playing eac3 audio.