No sound on ATSC 3 channels

[pcostanza]

Long time since I've posted....short story is, I'm about a year away from retiring but now I'm the only employee (and owner) and I have very little time for life as I do all the things needed to shut down my biz in the next 15 months.
Anyway, we finally got a few ASTC 3 stations in my area and I've been using HDHR 3.0 tuner and I have to say, the picture looks great but I get no sound. I did a quick search and still am not sure what I'm missing. I believe the audio is AC-4 and HDHR recorded files go thru their servers to transcode to a playable format or at least that's what I recall.  It's likely my lack of visiting here for ages has caused me to be ignorant but, am I wasting my time?
I will likely get rid of cable and stream only soon and use NPVR for all of my recordings so I hope there's something I can buy to allow audio.

Hope everyone is well and living large!

[mvallevand]

The only NextPVR clients that can decode AC-4 to AC-3 are yauiclient (Windows) uidroid for Android, and the latest Roku Ultra devices. With uidroid you can get true AC-4 audio if your Android TV or device supports it. I think the Roku has true AC-4 as well.

The "great" picture could very well be placebo since the source and distribution networks are not enhanced yet. One feature of yauiclient allows you to play them stacked so you can directly compare two channels. 4K is years away but I have read that some channels will be HDR so they might start looking a bit better.

Sadly in NOLA two channels (NBC and Fox) are already encrypted so you will need the Silicondust apps to play them when A3SA encryption is available.

Martin

[pcostanza]

Thanks Martin. I have heard that the other stations may start encryption so I guess I'll rely on 'old' ATSC channels. Oh the good ole days when TV was free!
I did find a crappy file player, https://github.com/ferrellsl/VideoPlayer that plays it fine but it's very rudimentary. I'm guessing I won't be able to run away from all streaming soon but then, my ISP has data limits so, maybe I'll just move.
Appreciate your help. Now can you help me retire while living in record inflation?

[mvallevand]

Buy low, sell high.

If you are retiring soon then you may remember the late 70's and early 80's. Hardly recording inflation now compared to when I was younger.

Martin