Which app to use for Google TV?

[tattler 32]

14 hours ago, FrostByte said:

I also noticed that it's DD+ and not DD like the rest of the apps

Yes I see the difference, universal Android version:

/app/emby/bin/ffmpeg -loglevel +timing -y -print_graphs_file "/config/logs/ffmpeg-transcode-1ff70957-a858-4d52-82ab-7fa7d8f0ae44_1graph.txt" -copyts -start_at_zero -init_hw_device "vaapi=dev1:/dev/dri/renderD128" -f matroska,webm -ss 01:14:15.000 -c:v:0 h264 -threads:v:0 1 -hwaccel:v:0 vaapi -hwaccel_device:v:0 dev1 -hwaccel_output_format:v:0 vaapi -noautorotate -canvas_size:s:0 "1920:1080" -i "/data/media/movies/X-Men Days of Future Past (2014)/X-Men Days of Future Past (2014) [imdb-tt1877832][Remux-1080p][DTS-HD MA 7.1][AVC].mkv" -filter_complex "[0:4]scale@f1=width=1920:height=1056,hwupload@f2[f2_out0];[0:0][f2_out0]overlay_vaapi@f3=alpha=1:shortest=0[f3_out0]" -map [f3_out0] -map 0:1 -sn -c:v:0 h264_vaapi -b:v:0 30230171 -g:v:0 72 -maxrate:v:0 30230171 -bufsize:v:0 60460342 -keyint_min:v:0 72 -r:v:0 23.976024627685547 -profile:v:0 main -c:a:0 ac3 -ab:a:0 384000 -ar:a:0 48000 -ac:a:0 6 -metadata:s:a:0 language=eng -disposition:a:0 default -max_delay 5000000 -avoid_negative_ts disabled -f segment -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 -segment_format mpegts -segment_list "/transcode/transcoding-temp/EBAA73/EBAA73.m3u8" -segment_list_type m3u8 -segment_time 00:00:03.000 -segment_start_number 1485 -individual_header_trailer 0 -write_header_trailer 0 -segment_write_temp 1 "/transcode/transcoding-temp/EBAA73/EBAA73_%d.ts"

It transcodes to ac3 and not eac3. That is why the sound on SONOS is better with ATV.

[FrostByte 5557]

8 minutes ago, tattler said:

 

It transcodes to ac3 and not eac3. That is why the sound on SONOS is better with ATV.

Agreed, I can tell the difference between the two apps on my Samsung soundbar too. 

One of the advantages of EAC3 is that it's supposed to sound better than AC3 at the same low bitrates, I just never noticed before because I have no need for reencoding audio.

[tattler 32]

I have Shield TV Pro so the audio specs are better:

Edited 5 hours ago by tattler

[FrostByte 5557]

And ATV should really say it's converting TrueHD to eac3 in SFN, not direct playing

[CBers 7656]

39 minutes ago, tattler said:

It transcodes to ac3 and not eac3. That is why the sound on SONOS is better with ATV.

Which Sonos soundbar do you have? 

 

[tattler 32]

4 minutes ago, FrostByte said:

And ATV should really say it's converting TrueHD to eac3 in SFN, not direct playing

That is what is confusing to me the fact that it is transcoding the audio in ATV it shows Direct Play. I am still waiting for confirmation from the Emby team about this.

What is SFN?

Edited 5 hours ago by tattler

[FrostByte 5557]

Stats for Nerds.  Click the settings wheel on the OSD and you should see it.  Both apps have it and they both have a hotkey to turn it on and off also without having to bring up the OSD.

It just overlays a little box on top of the movie and gives details of how your video and sound are playing.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by FrostByte

[tattler 32]

23 minutes ago, CBers said:

Which Sonos soundbar do you have? 

 

I have 2 SONOS Playbar with different hardware firmware:

Sonos Living Room: 1.9.1.11-2.2

Sonos Bedroom: 1.9.1.10-2.0

I have recently updated the firmware so it is updated.

Edited 5 hours ago by tattler

[CBers 7656]

2 hours ago, tattler said:

2 hours ago, CBers said:

Which Sonos soundbar do you have? 

 

I have 2 SONOS Playbar

And do they support better audio quality that DD 5.1? 

I have an old Sonos Beam soundbar which only supports upto DD. 

 

[tattler 32]

41 minutes ago, CBers said:

And do they support better audio quality that DD 5.1? 

I have an old Sonos Beam soundbar which only supports upto DD. 

 

I noticed the difference in DD and DD+ support on both playbars. The Bedroom one supports only DD and the living room one DD+.

I came to discover this discrepancy in DD support with the same Sonos Playbar when streaming live tv from tvheadend. I converted the stream to EAC3 with a custom stream profile I created. Sonos Living Room can direct play the audio without transcoding but the one in the bedroom produces no audio. If I turned on the option to convert unsupport audio to DD then Emby transcode it for the bedroom playbar.

When I modified the stream profile in tvheadend to convert to ac3, both Playbars can direct play the stream without converting to DD.

[ebr 16555]

5 hours ago, FrostByte said:

And ATV should really say it's converting TrueHD to eac3 in SFN, not direct playing

Do we have definitive evidence that that is what was actually happening?

I can direct play TrueHD from my Shield Pro connected to just my TV.

The latest update to the TV app is allowing conversion to DD+ if it is supported by the device.