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I have an HTPC (and other stuff) connected to a projector, which is generally awesome. My setup is: (many devices) ---> HDMI Switch ---> Audio Extractor (connected to amp for speakers) ---> Projector One longstanding annoyance with this setup is that my projector takes a while (like 3-5 seconds?) dealing with an input drop or change. Every time I enter a game on the PC it drops the video output momentarily and I get seconds of the Benq "no input, searching..." display. Every time the PS4 changes resolution for whatever reason (e.g. games that are not 1080p), I get the screen. Every time I change the input, seconds of screen. Etc. Is there a device I can use to like "fake" a persistent display to the projector so that it doesn't black out all the time? Any little boxes to do it? Would a receiver do this (I don't need one but maybe if it solves this problem...)?
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You can try an HDMI to HDMI upscaler. It may or may not work and good ones aren't cheap.
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Nov 9, 2017 13:00
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Is a projector really worth it? So great seeing the Shield for 169 in the US and Canadian best buy only carries the loving stand for it
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I'm getting pretty bad stuttering on 4k HEVC files playing in Kodi on my Shield TV hooked up to a 1080p TV. These are around 60Mbps files. I read about people playing back 4k HEVC files with a Shield, but I'm not sure if that's in Kodi or not. Also, it's doing the downsampling to 1080p. Anyone else able to play back files like this? edit: Hmm, still stuttering when play back with VLC. I guess the Shield can't handle downscaling 4k to 1080p? Thermopyle fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Dec 7, 2017 |
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Dec 7, 2017 02:26
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Thermopyle posted:I'm getting pretty bad stuttering on 4k HEVC files playing in Kodi on my Shield TV hooked up to a 1080p TV. I play HEVC files in my shield through Kodi, but nothing that large.
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Dec 7, 2017 03:11
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I finally got to try a shield today and wow. I never thought android could be this. Now I need to get one somehow with no money.
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Dec 7, 2017 04:50
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Speaking of hiding stuff... I have been told to would like to switch over to wireless + hide as much as humanly possible a nearby utility room. Post switch, I'd still like to have access to local channels (currently, antenna via coax), blu-ray player (currently ps3 using hmdi), sound (currently 7.1 A/V receiver with wired speakers), and Amazon streaming (currently using app on ps3). Any recommended setups? It it just a matter of adding wireless hdmi boxes in line? Or is there something more elegant?
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Dec 7, 2017 20:46
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gaj70 posted:Speaking of hiding stuff... I have been told to would like to switch over to wireless + hide as much as humanly possible a nearby utility room. Post switch, I'd still like to have access to local channels (currently, antenna via coax), blu-ray player (currently ps3 using hmdi), sound (currently 7.1 A/V receiver with wired speakers), and Amazon streaming (currently using app on ps3). Switching to an Xbone or PS4 can let you use an hdhomerun with an antenna for OTA channels that you can just put wherever your router is since it's a network tuner, while keeping Blu-ray playback and streaming services.
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Dec 8, 2017 03:24
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TheScott2K posted:Switching to an Xbone or PS4 can let you use an hdhomerun with an antenna for OTA channels that you can just put wherever your router is since it's a network tuner, while keeping Blu-ray playback and streaming services. hdhomerun looks promising, thanks. However, I'm not sure I get your point about xbones/ps4's. My preferred setup would be something like: [blu ray player + antenna] --> [hdhomerun] --> [router] --> air gap --> [tv] --> [soundbar] where everything to the left of the air gap is in a closet. If I need a dongle on the tv, I'd like it to be as unintrusive as possible e.g., chromecast or fire in "mini-stick" form factor. And I guess, a harmony remote somewhere in there. gaj70 fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Dec 8, 2017 |
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Dec 8, 2017 20:30
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If you insist on a wireless connection to the TV you'll need a Wireless HDMI product. Anything based on WiFi will be too high latency to be decent in a lot of games. Those will still depend on line-of-sight between the transmitter and receiver so you won't be able to keep them completely hidden and depending on layout you may have issues with people walking in front of the beam blocking it. Running a wire would be the best option if you can do it.
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Dec 8, 2017 20:37
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You should run a wire. With wireless you're going to spend a bunch of money and end up unsatisfied with the end result anyways. Just shortcut the inevitable and run the wire.
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Especially once you wanna do 4k and hdr
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Don Lapre posted:Especially once you wanna do 4k and hdr Thanks all. My problem is that I'm getting quotes of ~$1K to run the wire (Mostly to repair/repaint the ceiling; it's all finished space). On principle, I'd rather spend that money on new electronics.
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Just got a new 4k ready TV and a 4k ready intel NUC. The issue I am having is when switching from my cable box (at 1080p or whatever fios is) to the NUC (at 2160p). Kodi resizes to this little thumbnail size instead of its previous fullscreen state. I know it has something to do with the TV switching resolutions and the HDMI handshake but I have no idea how to fix it / work around it. Anyone have any thoughts? edit: Actually, it *might* be that the NUC is dropping to something like 800x600 when it loses it's display but I have no way of knowing that for fact. cr0y fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Dec 12, 2017 |
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Dec 12, 2017 20:00
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That issue cropped up for me with Kodi coming out of wake on my NUC when I installed it with Windows 10. Fixed it by killing Kodi and restarting it on wake. Then when Win10 updated to the Anniversary update, it started doing it again and I solved it by increasing the delay before Kodi relaunched on wake. Then when Win10 updated to the Creators update, it started doing it again as well as occasionally when switching between sources. I solved it by buying a 2017 Shield TV (and a Harmony Hub to put a real remote on it) and turning off and unplugging the NUC. Haven't had any issues since... Fake edit: If you insist on going down the road of pain and suffering, I suspect your theory about the NUC changing resolutions is correct - it was mine as well. I never could get a workable solution and figured that even if I did the next update would just bust it tho. Godspeed.
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cr0y posted:Just got a new 4k ready TV and a 4k ready intel NUC. The issue I am having is when switching from my cable box (at 1080p or whatever fios is) to the NUC (at 2160p). Kodi resizes to this little thumbnail size instead of its previous fullscreen state. I know it has something to do with the TV switching resolutions and the HDMI handshake but I have no idea how to fix it / work around it. Anyone have any thoughts? I had the same issue. I just programmed my Harmony remote to close Kodi when going to a new activity (or powering off) and then when I start the Kodi activity reopening Kodi via a keyboard shortcut. If you don't have a programmable remote, I got nothing.
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Wiggly posted:I had the same issue. I just programmed my Harmony remote to close Kodi when going to a new activity (or powering off) and then when I start the Kodi activity reopening Kodi via a keyboard shortcut. If you don't have a programmable remote, I got nothing. I have a harmony, ill try that. Thanka gents.
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Dec 12, 2017 21:30
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I'd like to build an HTPC/NAS that I can store all my media on as well as just play it on my TV. Is this the thread I should be asking in or just straight over to the PC-Parts picker thread. I'm not sure which OS to use or even the best software. It looks like Kodi and/or Plex (or both) would be pretty useful. I'm wanting to:
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MonkeyFit posted:I'd like to build an HTPC/NAS that I can store all my media on as well as just play it on my TV. Is this the thread I should be asking in or just straight over to the PC-Parts picker thread. Shield.
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TheScott2K posted:Shield. So I sould just get a shield and a separate NAS?
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MonkeyFit posted:So I sould just get a shield and a separate NAS? Yes. Or you can build a NAS. But that's in another thread.
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Or, depending how much space we're talking here you could just hook an external up to the Shield itself.
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TheScott2K posted:Or, depending how much space we're talking here. Several terabytes, and I'd like some redundancy.
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MonkeyFit posted:Several terabytes, and I'd like some redundancy. In that case, yea, NAS for storage.
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Hard drives get hot and make noise so you probably don't want that sitting next to where you watch TV. If you build a NAS put it someplace else if you can.
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The biggest downside to having your NAS and your HTPC be the same machine is that running a giant subwoofer for your home theater system that close to a pile of hard drives is a recipe for disaster. Edit: Because vibrations, not magnets.
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G-Prime posted:The biggest downside to having your NAS and your HTPC be the same machine is that running a giant subwoofer for your home theater system that close to a pile of hard drives is a recipe for disaster. While I'm not going to say this is technically wrong, if I had a list of 100 things to be concerned about when building a combo HTPC/Storage PC this would be number #100, somewhere after "random acts of God may destroy the part of your space the HTPC is in but not the part a NAS would be in".
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If I did a combo it would mean throwing a cheap video card in there and maybe a beefier processor. Looking at a shield TV though that does look pretty awesome. Especially with plex and Kodi support. So I'll probably just do a separate NAS and get a shield. Honestly the only thing that will separate the two if I put the NAS somewhere else is a 6" interior wall.
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My hauppauge cablecard box is rebooting continuously, after about 7 years of loyal service. I don't really watch or dvr tv anymore apart from Bob's burgers and can pretty much cover all viewing between Hulu and Netflix, so I'm leaning towards a Shield and a regular cable box for local channels, but I was wondering if there's a replacement for what I've got. Apart from a TiVO, there's not really a single-input device that will give access to both cable and various streaming sites, is there? (Antenna is out- I don't have reception).
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I bought a Synology DS416j and gave it four 4TB drives. I have that running in a Raid because I ripped my DVDs to ISO files, and I didn't want to repeat that project if/when one of the hard drive dies. The other benefit is that it also does my torrents, Sonarr, and SQL database. So I just point my 3 Amazon Fire sticks at that machine, and everything is in sync across all of those devices. The Fire Sticks generate no noise, and the Synology is also very quite (and in my office).
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Glass of Milk posted:My hauppauge cablecard box is rebooting continuously, after about 7 years of loyal service. A HDHomerun tuner will work with pretty much your choice of devices. They're supported in Kodi and Plex, have app support on most major OSes, and expose UPnP DLNA streams which can be played by pretty much anything. If all you care about is Bob's Burgers you might be able to get away with the cheaper OTA/Clear QAM models, but that depends on how nice your cable provider is. Otherwise there's a triple-tuner CableCard model.
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Does anyone have one of the new Amazon Fire TVs (the diamond shaped one)? That thing seems like it'd be a perfect replacement for my HTPC that bit the dust; wireless AC, tiny as hell, and I could install Kodi on it. My only concern would be streaming 1080p files from my personal server but it seems like that shouldn't be a problem at all given the memory and the 5ghz wireless.
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GobiasIndustries posted:Does anyone have one of the new Amazon Fire TVs (the diamond shaped one)? That thing seems like it'd be a perfect replacement for my HTPC that bit the dust; wireless AC, tiny as hell, and I could install Kodi on it. My only concern would be streaming 1080p files from my personal server but it seems like that shouldn't be a problem at all given the memory and the 5ghz wireless. I do - it's works well enough for what I bought it for, amazon video, netflix, hulu, plex, etc. I bought the USB ethernet adapter for streaming from an HDHomerun, but for everything else the wireless was fine. I don't use it on a 4k or HDR TV, but honestly, the price was right for what i need it for. Additional thought - much easier to use than the Odroid C2 I purchased for the same TV earlier this year, going to send the odroid to another TV.
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On the constant recommendations of this thread, I decided to replace my 2nd gen core i5 laptop with a Shield for HTPC duties. All I can say is that this thing is amazing; it's extremely smooth and gamestream is really nice compared to Steam streaming on the laptop. I always had some FPS drop in Kodi when looking through movies on the main menu, but all of that is gone. One thing that's really A+ is the keyboard/mouse overlay when streaming, which is really helpful when you have to tweak something from the couch. At one point I was cursing Nvidia for failing to include a start button alongside the back button on the controller, but I found that the middle button is 2 step which is really nice. Harmony integration with a FLIRC took some adjustment to make it emulate the back/menu buttons, but it was easy with the FLIRC software.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > The HTPC Thread : just buy a Shield already
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I'm actually pretty frustrated with my shields working with kodi + emby. (same problem with kodi + plex) The problem is that watched status won't stay in sync between them. I'm fairly sure it has something to do with Android putting kodi to sleep,but I still haven't been able to pin down what is happening exactly. I'm hoping v18 makes a difference. I've come close to just moving back to htpc's on the couple of tvs I've got shields on. Everyone hates the plex and the emby UI so just using them straight isn't an option either.
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Thermopyle posted:I'm actually pretty frustrated with my shields working with kodi + emby. (same problem with kodi + plex) That’s odd because I’m running Emby for Kodi and haven’t had any issues syncing between my two Shields (or the two Fire TVs that I have Emby on). Just to see what would happen I loaded up Netflix on one of the Shields about 5 hours ago and left it. I just started up a movie on the other Shield and stopped it, walked to the other room, closed Netflix and opened Kodi. The watched status of the movie was exactly where I left off in the other room. Have you done a reinstall any time recently? Edit: How large is your library?
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I drive a BBW posted:That’s odd because I’m running Emby for Kodi and haven’t had any issues syncing between my two Shields (or the two Fire TVs that I have Emby on). Just to see what would happen I loaded up Netflix on one of the Shields about 5 hours ago and left it. I just started up a movie on the other Shield and stopped it, walked to the other room, closed Netflix and opened Kodi. The watched status of the movie was exactly where I left off in the other room. Have you done a reinstall any time recently? It's not a consistent problem...but maybe 50% of the time I'll come into the room and it lists shows as unwatched that have been definitely watched. I've got a pretty big library. 1500 movies and 16500 episdoes.
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Thermopyle posted:I'm actually pretty frustrated with my shields working with kodi + emby. (same problem with kodi + plex) I have the same setup with Emby connected to trakt and that seems to work well. I recently had to manually update Emby/Emby trakt plugin/Emby Kodi plugin, but the only time I have issues these days is when the Emby server occasional crashes.
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