Have you tried using another player to watch the channel (ie. Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi)?
BTW theres only a few channels per market in the clear so its a guessing game for the devs to sort out ATSC3. Hopefully, it'll be sorted as I think ATSC 3 is the future and some guys need these channels working in the main client as they can't get the 1.0 signal
Works fine in HDHR app on my Nvidia Shield.
What's happening in Channels when trying to to tune to the ATSC 3.0 channel is a still image comes of the channel comes up and the little circle spins on the menu bar.
One time I left it there for over a minute and the channel eventually tuned.
No answer from the devs?
Still nothing. Is this app still being actively supported?
See:
This has worked for nearly two years, however.
Did you try changing video driver to software?
Tried both software and hybrid. No change.
The channels play in the HDHR app without issue.
Again, these channels have played for almost two years.
If I wait over a minute and a half the channel will tune but with no sound.
Has something changed with the audio support?
Seems like they made a change at the tower?
I need tuner captures to investigate
Can you explain what a tuner capture is?
See the thread I linked earlier.
I just sent the tuner capture for one of the channels. MediaInfo shows this:
These channels are very important to me as their ATSC 1.0 counterparts suffer pixelation. They are the reason I upgraded to an ATSC 3.0 tuner in the first place and allowed me to move over to OTA and drop cable.
If Channels decides not support ATSC 3.0, then to be honest it throws into serious question whether I can continue to use Channels or will need to move to another solution that does support ATSC 3.0 channels.
Any news on this?
Any news on this?
I looked and there was no obvious fix. The data coming from the tower looks weird.
You could try older beta APKs to see if it still works there but I would suspect not.
Can you take a look at my ATSC 3.0 capture I sent in September 24 that was apparently ignored?
Logs: 13ee9dfe-ede3-49e4-a865-b29f639ada15
[WRAL News at 11PM 2024-09-23-2300.mpg]
The data from the tower looks "weird" but HDHR works fine. That doesn't seem to add up. I know they're doing something with their audio due to lack of support, but it's perplexing that Channels doesn't seem to put any priority on figuring out a way to make this work, when it used to work.
Based on recordings of a program that I only watch occasionally that recorded off one of the ATSC 3.0 channels, I've determined that the audio changed sometime around mid-November. The programs recorded but without audio.
I'm confused how Channels on the Nvidia Shield supported audio previously as it's my understanding that AC-4 is not supported on the Shield, yet Channels was able to play the audio on my ATSC 3.0 channels until from around May 2023 until mid-November 2024.
I guess the answer is that the channels were originally using AC-3, but switched to AC-4 by comparing two recordings... one with audio and one without:
There's no way for Channels support AC-4 audio? Even with transcoding?
