4K UHD HDR TVs

[feilh]

These new 4K TV have all these browser and apps in them. Has anyone figured out how to use the smart TV to act as an NPVR client? I don't just mean TV guide like functions, I mean playing recordings.

[Graham]

These new 4K TV have all these browser and apps in them. Has anyone figured out how to use the smart TV to act as an NPVR client? I don't just mean TV guide like functions, I mean playing recordings.

NextPVR is accessible using web browser software. There are many post in the forum such as, for example, ... https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...ght=modern

There is a NextPVR client for Android and some new TV run support Android apps ... but I don't think that anyone is using the NextPVR app on their TV. Does Kodi software run on any TVs?

[feilh]

I have never tried to the web app. The NPVR NEWA wiki says stream via VLC. That doesn't sound like something the a smart tv can do, but maybe I'm wrong.

I looked up your Kodi question. I think some TV's may run Kodi but most don't.

[mvallevand]

You would need to use the modern interface not NEWA which will stream transcoded for your TV. Transcoding can be hard on the server though and quality will be less than NextPVR. Browsing on a SmartTV is more of a toy IMO and not something you would want to do regularly.

Martin

[sub]

Browsing on a SmartTV is more of a toy IMO and not something you would want to do regularly.

I've also heard that the browsers in smart tv's often don't do video playback in web apps, or don't do it well, since the brower is not really intended for that sort of purpose. ie, instead of the youtube web page in the browser, use the youtube app etc.

[smiffypr]

A while ago I bought an 80" 4k tv (Hisense), and originally just kept the PC output at 1080(at 25Hz), but then I experimented and found that the picture looks better with the output set to 2160 (still at 25Hz). Initially I found that with NPVR at full screen, with 1080 content, I couldn't get the on screen displays at all, but then I realized that the GPU "3D"usage in Task Manager was pegged at 100% because a screen sharing app was running all the time. I uninstalled that, and now with 1080 upscaled to 2160 by the GPU, the usages are GPU "3D" around 50% and GPU "video processing" around 40%, so they are no longer a limiting factor. If I look at GPU usage under the detail tab I see NextPVR.exe running around 35% ("Video Processing") and dwm.exe around 17% ("3D").
The problem is that very often the OSD will work at the start of watching then later on not come up when I move the mouse.
I believe it is the renderer at fault, I am using EVR.

Is there a better renderer out there?
Or is there a log for EVR somewhere?