2023-11-13, 12:07 AM
Hey again!
I've got a question which I think is relevant to my original post so I thought I'd ask it here. (I apologize if it's the wrong place to do so)
Out of curiosity, I tried to explore other solutions and decided to try to use an android box that came with my ISP. That box wouldn't support DTS TrueHD either. But while tinkering a bit, I encountered the external player/libVLC options and to my surprise everything would work flawlessly! (well I did have some slight audio delay using libVLC)
I was pretty surprised by that as I thought it was dependent on the codec on the hardware/firmware? Or does VLC do some sort of transcoding? I got me to ask myself the question wherever there was a reason why people would spend so much time thinking about X or Y android box (depending on which codec they support), when they can apparently simply use libVLC or an external player? I'm not sure if I'm missing something.
I've got a question which I think is relevant to my original post so I thought I'd ask it here. (I apologize if it's the wrong place to do so)
Out of curiosity, I tried to explore other solutions and decided to try to use an android box that came with my ISP. That box wouldn't support DTS TrueHD either. But while tinkering a bit, I encountered the external player/libVLC options and to my surprise everything would work flawlessly! (well I did have some slight audio delay using libVLC)
I was pretty surprised by that as I thought it was dependent on the codec on the hardware/firmware? Or does VLC do some sort of transcoding? I got me to ask myself the question wherever there was a reason why people would spend so much time thinking about X or Y android box (depending on which codec they support), when they can apparently simply use libVLC or an external player? I'm not sure if I'm missing something.