Hi folks,
First time caller!
I've just got a new UE4K (from WoS), only had it a week, but have faced a couple of issues.
I was experiencing the T/C tuners going missing occasionally, although I have since done an update to the latest ViX and not experienced it since but it's probably too early to say for definite. I'm hoping this fix made it into the latest Vix but just wasn't in the one my box shipped with a week ago. This is the fix as declared in the German OpenATV forum:
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From Image of 22.12. new driver (20.12,) in the image.
[GigaBlue - gb7252] update gigablue-platform-util
+ the tt3l10 tuner detection issue is fixed.
+ e2 streaming audio issue is fixed.
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However, the main issue I now have is that when playing a recording or playing back from the timeshift buffer, the picture is sometimes juddery, as though it's dropping frames, but only sometimes. If I scan back into the timeshift buffer it happens a lot, and I have to pause/play to get the smoothness back. Same thing on recordings. I observed this initially with my hard drive attached externnaly in a USB dock, but it has continued now that the drive is fitted internally. It also happens if I use a USB flash drive anyway (I can copy a recording to a flash drive and play it from there, same behaviour). The best way of seeing this in action is to use a news channel with a rolling ticker at the bottom (I use BBC NEWS HD). Let the timeshift buffer build up a bit and scan back and forth through it (scanning back is very flickery anyway). Sometimes when you start to play the ticker is jerky and will remain so until pause/play then it's (usually) OK.
I tried flashing OpenATV, but it behaves exactly the same. Is this likely to be a driver issue or to do with the software that decodes the stream? It never happens when zapping, but it happens equally on satellite, cable or terrestrial programs recordings/timeshift. In all cases, pause/play (usually) cures it but it is annoying to have to do it frequently.
I have tried switching the video output between 1080i, 1080p and 2160p and that made no difference. TV is a Panasonic 4K from 2016.
As an aside, I much prefer OpenVix to OpenATV (even with Wooshbuild Infinity on top of it). Love the YouView skin. I was a YouView fan until they messed it all up a year or so ago, and that skin is like the old YouView.
Thanks in advance for any guidance!
Glenn