Posts by jabster

  • No dialog audio channel After a TV Change

    Hi.

    So I have been setup for a number of years with Openelec and then LibreElec, feeding HDMI to my TV, and passing audio back to my receiver for sound with no problems. I just switched from an LG plasma to a Vizio E60-C3 TV tho, and, changing no settings in LE, I get all the audio EXCEPT the dialog. There are two TV audio output settings (Bitstream and PCM), and neither one seems to make a difference.

    The only way I can get the dialog is to change the number of audio channels in LE from 7.1 to 2, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of a home theater system.

    The only change I made was the physical TV. No software or other changes.

    Setup:

    OE -> TV via HDMI -> Audio out from TV via optical to receiver

    Note that I do NOT have any HDMI ports on my receiver. I have passthru audio off in LE.

    Any ideas what I can do here to get surround and dialog back?

    Thanks,

    John

  • Can I replace my NVIDIA card with Something Else here?

    powerarmour:

    I don't think the existing Celeron supports the Intel HD graphics. If I'm going to upgrade tho I may as well get something that supports 4K. I'm bound to have it at some point.

    klojum:

    I don't care about having the Latest And Greatest as long as what I get will work, especially when I can save a couple hundred bucks on the difference (Apollo Lake vs Coffee Lake).

    I do miss the Good Old Days tho when one could just pick out the fastest processor and know you had the best one. Sigh.

    Thanks.

  • Can I replace my NVIDIA card with Something Else here?

    Klojum, LOL....no...I've been running this system since 2012. RMA unlikely. :)

    powerarmour:

    Well, the MB has 7.1 channel HD audio which is good.

    Video info:

    From the MB manual:

    Supports Intel HD Graphics Built-in Visuals: Intel® Quick Sync Video, Intel InTruTM 3D, Intel Clear Video HD Technology, Intel InsiderTM, Intel HD Graphics 2500/4000, Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

    And going to http://01.org/linuxgraphics, I find supported hardware for VAAPI:

    Intel HD Graphics 2000/3000 (in 2nd Generation Intel Core i7/i5/i3 Processor family)

    Intel HD Graphics 2500/4000 (in 3nd Generation Intel Core i7/i5/i3 Processor family)

    The Intel page says this for my Celeron:

    Intel HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel Processors

    And it looks like a Celeron is not an i3/i5/i7, even tho it is a Sandy Bridge CPU.

    Looks like I can get a core i3-2130 for around $80 tho.

    A Redeon looks to be $100. And it has a fan. I like the fanless NVIDIA GPU.

    So would my best bet here be to just get a new CPU once LE9 comes out?

    Thanks,

    John

  • Can I replace my NVIDIA card with Something Else here?

    HI. New to LibreElec as of this AM. Discovered last night OpenELEC was dead. So here I am. :)

    Was reading the Development update and found out my NVIDIA card is about to become obsolete: It will be useless in LE 10, and it sounds like it may have problems even in LE9.

    Am I reading all of that correctly? If so, can I just swap out my GT610 with something else and be good to go?

    I've got:

    4G DDR3 PC3 10666

    Celeron dual-core 2.5G CPU

    AsRock H77M mainboard

    Note that I currently don't have any 4k content or display abilities.

    Thanks,

    John