This is not really a mythtv question, but it is related. I've been using
Leanfront a lot lately. It's just awesome now. It seems to play
perfectly anything I throw at it. Possibly, if I hadn't already recently
acquired a NUC-based front end, I might now not bother.
Still, that said, what ruins it is how useless is the Fire Stick 4K's
match frame rate feature. I'm wondering if others are seeing the flaw I
see. Every time I power cycle it, or power cycle my AV receiver, or even
switch the AV received away from the Fire Stick, it seems to forget my
TVs modes. The setting pertains: the fire stick still shows display mode
on automatic and the match-frame-rate feature enabled, but neither
leanfront or Prime video will switch. Leanfront explicitly reports that
the mode it wants isn't present.
I can make it work by temporarily switching the fire stick to 1080p60
and then back to automatic plus reenabling the match feature. Works
perfectly, but I have to do that every time I turn it on.
I find it sort of pathetic. The fire stick is produced by a company with
huge resources and with one purpose - to play video. How can they be
content with such a flaw.
And Netflix?! Another company with huge resources and exist only to
supply video, yet their app doesn't even support frame rate switching.
I guess, mitigating this for many is the smoothing feature that many
modern TVs have, which make motion a little unnatural, but can hide
frame rate mismatch. Seems a terrible solution to me.
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Leanfront a lot lately. It's just awesome now. It seems to play
perfectly anything I throw at it. Possibly, if I hadn't already recently
acquired a NUC-based front end, I might now not bother.
Still, that said, what ruins it is how useless is the Fire Stick 4K's
match frame rate feature. I'm wondering if others are seeing the flaw I
see. Every time I power cycle it, or power cycle my AV receiver, or even
switch the AV received away from the Fire Stick, it seems to forget my
TVs modes. The setting pertains: the fire stick still shows display mode
on automatic and the match-frame-rate feature enabled, but neither
leanfront or Prime video will switch. Leanfront explicitly reports that
the mode it wants isn't present.
I can make it work by temporarily switching the fire stick to 1080p60
and then back to automatic plus reenabling the match feature. Works
perfectly, but I have to do that every time I turn it on.
I find it sort of pathetic. The fire stick is produced by a company with
huge resources and with one purpose - to play video. How can they be
content with such a flaw.
And Netflix?! Another company with huge resources and exist only to
supply video, yet their app doesn't even support frame rate switching.
I guess, mitigating this for many is the smoothing feature that many
modern TVs have, which make motion a little unnatural, but can hide
frame rate mismatch. Seems a terrible solution to me.
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