| Tone Montone on 15 Jun 2019 08:39:19 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] MythTV can't tune ABC via LEAF |
Not to hijack a thread, but.... I tried to set up a dvr for my home and have never been satisfied with the results, I was wondering if anyone has a rig they are happy with. I have a roof antenna, an Hdhomerun digital tuner, a QNAP NAS, and Plex as DVR (fee based). It worked for the most part, but I was not happy with the codec used; when streaming the native format it pegged the cpu of the NAS and caused buffering, I used software called MCEBuddy on a windows machine to convert the video to mpv4, which reduced the cpu utilization to 15%, and removed commercials. The system worked some of the time, but often left me with unusable content, or unreliable results. I was wishing for a more reliable rig, and better software than Plex. HDhomerun had dvr subscription too, but I saw poor reviews so went with Plex. I use smarttv, appletv, and roku to watch content. All this to record Svengoolie. :) Sent from my iPad > On Jun 8, 2019, at 8:44 PM, Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> wrote: > > I'm pretty sure "high def" mostly has to do with the resolution, not > the compression ratio. But yeah, the difference is really > noticeable. But hey, afaict a large percentage of the population can't > even tell that they're watching letterboxed standard def channels on > their HDTVs, so what do I know? > >> On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 08:26:56PM -0400, Tlbox-verizon wrote: >> Despite touting high def, cable typically compresses the crap out of their signals. Over the air HD is always going to look better. >> >>> On Jun 8, 2019, at 20:11, Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> wrote: >>> >>> I've got an HD rabbit ears antenna I picked up for about $12 when I >>> finally got an HD TV in 2012. I haven't changed my channel settings >>> since then. I usually watch on cable but I just gave the antenna a try >>> to see if anything had changed. I can confirm that channels 6 and 12 >>> both look fine to me. >>> >>> Full disclosure -- I have an unobstructed view of the antenna farm in >>> Roxborough out my window. >>> >>> Also, I'd forgotten how much better baseball looks on broadcast TV >>> than on cable! >>> >>> Walt >>> >>>> On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 07:33:01PM -0400, Rachel plays Linux wrote: >>>> Channels 6 and 12 gave always been more trouble for us ever since the >>>> digital switch. We're in our third month of YouTube tv now, though, so I >>>> can't say whether anything has changed recently. >>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jun 1, 2019, 5:52 PM JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I've always had a problem tuning in ABC via my LEAF antenna for MythTV, >>>>> but it mostly worked. In the last 2-3 weeks it seems like it's not >>>>> working at all anymore, at least via the HD HomeRun 2 tuner I have. >>>>> >>>>> Is anyone else having problems or does anyone know if something changed >>>>> recently? Is anyone else still fiddling with broadcast at all, or is >>>>> everyone doing some kind of streaming? We have Netflix and Amazon >>>>> Prime, but that only goes so far. >>>>> >>>>> Clues? TIA, >>>>> JP >>>>> >>>>> PS--it seems like a lot of PBS stuff is on Netflix or Amazon, but I've >>>>> found that the Roku PBS app silently crashes when Pi-hole blocks >>>>> doubleclick.net, which I find unacceptable >>>>> ( >>>>> https://help.pbs.org/support/solutions/articles/12000047549-when-i-try-to-play-a-video-on-my-roku-device-the-pbs-channel-shuts-down-and-i-m-returned-to-the-roku >>>>> ). >>>>> -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> JP Vossen, CISSP | http://www.jpsdomain.org/ | http://bashcookbook.com/ >>>>> ___________________________________________________________________________ >>>>> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >>>>> http://www.phillylinux.org >>>>> Announcements - >>>>> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >>>>> General Discussion -- >>>>> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >>>>> >>> >>>> ___________________________________________________________________________ >>>> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org >>>> Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >>>> General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >>> >>> ___________________________________________________________________________ >>> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org >>> Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >>> General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org >> Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >> General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug