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When I hook my antenna straight to my tv, the 1080i looks great.
Then I plug the antenna back into the HDHR Extend. The Ethernet connects it to my Nighthawk router loaded with Tomato. I have both my AFTV2 and AppleTV4 plugged into the router as well. I have InstaTV loaded on both devices. I have Kodi loaded on the AFTV2 but not the AppleTV. I have the HDHomerun add on loaded in Kodi. I also have the native TV menu working in Kodi with TVheadend backend loaded on a chromebox.
I set transcoding to heavy and deinterlacing to on across all platforms with the same result. The video is choppy when panning. Does anyone know how to fix this or what the problem might be?
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I believe it's related to the deinterlacing. Also, does the Extend deinterlace? I thought it only transcoded, and if that's the case, the problem is with your hardware having problems keeping up with the deinterlacing.
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I agree with BigRich911. SiliconDust should be telling everyone that their hardware is no good for 1080i OTA content. I'm starting to get really pissed after buying a HDHomerun Connect and they have yet to get back to my support ticket. I think they are dodging the question because they don't have an answer.
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The problem isn't with the hardware, it's the software. HDHR devices merely pass the stream along exactly as they get it. It's up to your software/computer to be able to handle the streams. This includes deinterlacing (including 1080i MPEG2 as found in the US), and HEVC/H.265 as found on DVB-T2 HD as in Germany.
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Also be careful of the network bandwidth. The HDHR (connect anyway) does not demux, so the full TS is sent to the connected device. If there are multiple channels this can be 4-5x the bandwidth of the individual channel that you want. With an RPi3 running TVheadend, I saw 22Mbps coming out of the HDHR, and 4.5-5Mbps going to the client (with wireshark) Time critical video struggled with this. Switching to a USB tuner on the RPi kept most of this off the ethernet and all was good.
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Well maybe the connect is capable of demuxing, but the traffic from it to TVheadend, and also when I tested WMC on a host, was of a volume that indicated it wasn't being told to demux by either of them, in the normal course of events.
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