There are some 4K channels started broadcasting on east satellites available on Indian subcontinent now a days and I don't find any image compatible to view the channels?
What are the possibility of supporting 4k on existing hardware using down scale technique?
I am/most of us are not interested in buying 4k STB as of now.
It isn't going to happen, the older boxes don't have the codec's to view the channels.
If your lucky you might be able to stream the channels from your current box to your pc and view them in vlc.
Some high end boxes would probably be capable of transcoding the stream on-the-fly and then playing it back through a stream connection (Like it is done for powervu channels with stream-relay.)
It isn't going to happen, the older boxes don't have the codec's to view the channels.
If your lucky you might be able to stream the channels from your current box to your pc and view them in vlc.
If its only issue with codec I am sure some body will figure out and port it for enigma compatibility but must be some thing more to it like chip support or hardware dependency,
Don't think software dependencies are barrier for long time.
I tried playing the stream from cloud ibox 3 on a core i5 8GB ram windows 7 64bit machine using VLC but, it freezes after 1 or 2 sec.
But it plays the 4k HEVC video..!! though the duration is quite short.
So this means either the Cloud Ibox 3 is not pumping the steam properly in to the local network or else my windows machine hardware unable to handle...
Can some body try playing some 4k channel using VU solo 2 ( Dual core processor) and verify on PC using VLC?
The bit rate I notice is between 7.5mb to 8mb.
Will test when indoors. Can the bit rate not be changed? ?
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this is from 28.2
Astra Ultra HD Test
recorded with vu solo2 to hdd
ftp to pc
opens in vlc but freezes
display resolution 3840x2160
so transcoded it to mp4 with vlc
to 1920x1080
ftp back to vu solo2
and played it
looks brill on tv
Have you tried with any other HEVC supported media player such as Divx10.2?
It seems like the HEVC support provided by VLC is on experimental basis, not sure if it can handle it at full resolution/fps
Hopefully same recording trick should work with Ibox-3 as well, lets see.
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