[mythtv-users] Indoor HD antenna question

[Ashu Desai]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:12 AM Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 12:36 AM Stephen Worthington <
> stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 01:09:18 +0000, you wrote:
>>
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>> >wohoo!!! this did it! THANK YOU!!!
>> >
>> >Now - minor stuff:
>> >
>> >1. When i go to themes on remote frontend - i only see 3. Classic,
>> >Classic-Wide and Terra.
>>
>> You need to get mythfrontend to download other themes.  It should
>> download the list of themes when you go into the theme chooser.  If it
>> has not, then from in the theme chooser, M(menu) and select Refresh
>> Downloadable Themes.  You probably tried before when your networking
>> was not working.
>>
>
> Pressing menu and doing again worked! Thank you!
>

Adding 1 b: - I have an issue setting up storage group. So initially I had
set up the following for my Movies:

/usr/local/media/Videos

Now I thought of adding my "TV" folder as well such:

/usr/local/media/TV


However, no matter what I do - my backend only sees the initial Videos
folder (Movies) - I almost want to remove it and see if it now sees the TV
but I realize that doing so means rescanning ALL my movies when I add the
folder again. I am trying to avoid this if I can help it.



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>> >2. Audio - I think I need to choose HDMI but if i do that - TrueHD
>> doesn't
>> >work. If I select iecxxxx- I think DTS-HD won't work - not sure. But the
>> >real part - wrong speakers light up when doing the test.
>>
>> HDMI can be limited as to what it will pass through.  If your TV does
>> not do TrueHD, then it is unlikely an HDMI connection to your TV will
>> do TrueHD as the TV will not pass it through.  If the HDMI goes to
>> your receiver/amp then maybe it will work.
>>
>
> My HDMI is going out to my Denon receiver - Somehow if I set this to
> iecxxx - I can hear the TrueHD movies. If I have HDMI - no sound. Not sure
> why.
>

This still remains the issue...

>
>
>> >Someone suggested correcting it in asound.conf - but that's empty. I
>> think
>> >I need to edit that one with the correct layout. I haven't looked at the
>> >sample asound.conf but now I am on to that.
>>
>> Check your old Ion setup to see if it has an asound.conf file.  If
>> not, then this mailing list has had posts about this exact problem
>> several times, so if you can find them there will be examples of what
>> to put in /etc/asound.conf.  ALSA is a pain to set up - it is much
>> better if you have an example to work from.
>>
>>
> I saw this post here for the wrong speaker piece for Zotac:
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tutorial
>
> That fixed it (however TrueHD only works if i select IEC option on audio
> card) - i understand this was more for which channel to which speaker
>
>
>
>> >3. H.265 plays extremely choppy! It plays perfect on the backend server.
>> I
>> >have ethernet 1G connection everywhere in the house so network can't be
>> >it..?
>>
>> Ion Nvidia GPUs are way too old to do accelerated H.265.  That is only
>> done by the very newest Nvidia cards (1000 series, I think).  And
>> since your Ion has already demonstrated that it is too slow to do even
>> H.264 with its CPU only, then it is certainly not going to be able to
>> do H.265.  Your backend box is likely doing H.265 using its CPU.  You
>> may be forced to transcode H.265 to H.264 to be able to play H.265
>> files on the Ion frontend.
>>
>
> Thank you - I already got a handbrake'ed copy with H.264 - I was just
> wondering. Makes sense about this being underpowered for the HEVC piece.
>
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