Does anyone know if Netflix can be installed on the Vero 4K+ in a way that allows playback of 4K HDR with HD audio? If so, how can this be done?
I’ve tried going through related topics, but most are outdated and difficult to follow—many reference non-existent GitHub entries or add-ons that are no longer available.
Why this matters:
If you have a Netflix account, you can watch movies via:
TV – but you’ll lose HD audio for an external sound system and you can’t broadcast it to your beamer.
Netflix app on PC/Mac – but this may lead to picture and sound quality issues.
Vero 4K+ – which seems like the best option if 4K HDR and HD audio are supported.
I’d really appreciate any guidance on whether this setup is possible and how to achieve it.
eARC does not support DTS or DTS-HD, though this is mostly theoretical when it comes to Netflix. Another issue is that I can’t send video from the TV to the projector.
pretty sure eARC does support dts and dts-hd. also Dolby Atmos, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS:X.
I’m not near my tv to confirm but I know it passes atmos from netflix on my samsung tv
eARC supports the latest high-bitrate audio formats up to192kHz, 24-bit, and uncompressed 5.1 and 7.1, and 32-channel uncompressed audio. It also supports DTS-HD Master Audio™, DTS:X®, Dolby® TrueHD, and Dolby Atmos®.
In comparison, HDMI ARC only supports up to 6-channel compressed audio and has a maximum bandwidth of 1Mb/second. It supports different audio formats like PCM (2 channel), Dolby Digital (up to 5.1 channel) and DTS Digital Surround (up to 5.1 channel) .
You may be right, but unfortunately, my Samsung TV doesn’t support DTS, unlike the Vero 4K+. Besides, how am I supposed to watch Netflix on a projector while keeping both 4K HDR and HD audio?
I think the whole point of eARC is that the tv doesn’t need to support it. It passes the streams on regardless. Your external device (in my case a sound bar) does need to how ever
Since this veered into the “use an app on another device” territory. I thought I’d share how I integrate stuff from streaming services into Kodi on my Vero V and watch it on an AppleTV. This was kind of a rabbit hole project and involves Kodi, Home Assistant, and a custom written python script, but it is pretty seamless.
At its core is an add-on I wrote for Kodi called Where are You. The read me on the GitHub repo has more description of how to use it, including a demo script for Home Assistant so that you can pass a deep link URL from many streaming services (including Netflix) to get right to the show in question.
I am supremely lazy, so I also wanted a way for things to get automatically added to my library from the streaming services as they are released. Thus enters the custom python script called Create Media Stubs. This script can use information from the TVMaze web site to check daily for new episodes of a group of shows and then create the stream file for you with a deep link to the TV show in question. It’s basically now a DVR like thing for streaming.
So now every day new TV episodes show up in my Kodi library. If I “play” them, Where are You forwards a command to Home Assistant, and HA switches the HDMI input to my AppleTV and passes the deep link to the AppleTV so that the show I want to watch is now on the screen (the episode I want is usually next up because I’m watching them in order). To cap it off, I have a remote that is using Home Assistant, so after I’m done playing the episode and hit stop, HA knows to switch me back to the Kodi HDMI input, so I’m right back in my library.
It was a bunch of work to setup, but now that it’s done the only thing I ever have to do it add and delete shows from TVMaze and then get the deep link URL for new shows to put in the settings file for the python script.