VaporTrail 66 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Other than the fire tv home screen that is full of crap you can't remove... @@pir8radio With Fire OS 6, you can press & hold the home button, and go straight to your apps in a simple GUI homescreen à la TVLauncher3. Blew my mind when I discovered it by accident. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tristanjacquel 1 Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 I suppose that is a possibility for the future (if we could ever design an option that people would understand what it actually does). Most people are not going to want their DTS tracks mixed down to stereo though. They want 5.1 so converting to DD is a better experience. What about a 5.1 PCM decoding by the app and not only 2 ch downmix ? Wouldn't that solve issues with PGS subs that need direct play ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14916 Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 What about a 5.1 PCM decoding by the app and not only 2 ch downmix ? Wouldn't that solve issues with PGS subs that need direct play ? No because people don't want software decoded PCM streams either. They "need" to see that blue light on the AVR come on . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tristanjacquel 1 Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 (edited) No because people don't want software decoded PCM streams either. They "need" to see that blue light on the AVR come on . So 5.1 DD transcoding by app is likely to happen ? By the way, it seems Fire Stick TV 4K has the ability to transcode every audio stream to DD+ 5.1 or DD 5.1. At least it automatically does with Netflix app and that is problematic, since 2.0 becomes 5.1 (where FL & FR have signal, but C, SR and SL are empty), with little possibility for the receiver to upmix to surround channels (mine can't). I'll be checking if Emby set to downmix gets the same "stereo 5.1" transcoding. Edited January 11, 2019 by tristanjacquel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tristanjacquel 1 Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 Emby downmixed audio to pcm becomes 2.0 DD with fire stick TV 4k. Everything is fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37084 Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 Thanks for the feedback ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tristanjacquel 1 Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 I suppose that is a possibility for the future (if we could ever design an option that people would understand what it actually does). Most people are not going to want their DTS tracks mixed down to stereo though. They want 5.1 so converting to DD is a better experience. @@ebr, about a selective audio passthrough, I just came to notice Emby Theater (for Linux) does have such an option. Could a very same feature be implemented in Android / Fire TV app ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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