MrMC

Hi,

Is anyone out there using the Light Effects client with 4K content?
This weekend I installed an LED lightstrip on the rear of my TV and setup a light effects server to drive it.
Everything works fine with 720 or 1080 content, but when I play a 4K movie the LED's come on randomly and then freeze. No further updates seem to be being sent to the light effects server after the initial random sequence.
If I switch back to 1080 or 720 content everything works again.

Does anyone know if this is a bug with the Light Effects client, or am I missing some vital setup step?

4k is rendered using the HW acceleration, 720p and 1080p is rendered using ffmpeg. if we process the frame, we can capture the information for the lights, if we just pass it to tvOS to process, we don't ...

@davilla can give you more technical explanation, but last time I checked with him it was not "easily" doable.

Understood, but that's a real shame as the light effects make a real difference to the viewing

Does anyone know if there is an LG app that behaves as a Light Effects client as it would make so much more sense if TV's just included this option as one of their smart apps?

And before anyone says. Yes. I know Philips already sell ambilight TVs, but who wants a Philips TV