We just recently 'cut the cable cord' and now use Netflix often since we primarily watch Movies. I have it working well in a browser with loopback since we must have MC's DSP. Every attempt I have made to have it work with DSP in Theater View has failed. In doing searches in this Forum it has for others too.
If you have a way to run Netflix in Theater View with DSP it would be wonderful!!! You mentioned that it's "Fiddly". Is that to set up or running it? I would certainly appreciate your sharing your workflow.
Thanks,
Rod
It's fiddly both to set up and to operate. The method is basically to have two zones in JRiver, one that outputs to your normal output device, and one that outputs to your loopback device. See the following thread for the development of the idea:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=78129.0The germ of it is this:
1) You'll need to make a new zone. I recommend copying an existing zone that has working playback.
2) Configuration for the new zone or "loopback zone": This zone should use your normal output settings and is set to play loopback. The output device is your "good" soundcard that is connected to your speakers. In this zone, use your normal DSP (except volume levelling) and output settings. The only difference is that you set the internal volume to the reference level (as loud as you'd want it, but no louder) and leave it there.
3) Configuration for your existing zone or "player zone": in your old zone you should set your output device to use WASAPI on your default system soundcard (the one you normally use for loopback, not the one connected to your speakers). In the mode configuration you should disable event style and uncheck the "open device for exclusive access" box or the first instance of JRiver won't be able to grab the stream. The output format in DSP studio is set for source sample rate, source bitdepth, and source number of channels (after all it's just a pass through), and the only DSP I enabled in this zone is volume leveling (volume levelling needs to be enabled in the "player" zone.
Once you have this setup, you can use it one of two ways:
1) You can set it to work this way all the time. For this you need to write a batch file to start loopback playing in the loopback zone on startup, and then switch the zone to your normal playback zone. This can be a little fiddly to operate if you use the PC for anything other than theater view (or if you have windows sounds on and one blows through at your reference volume level, etc.). I can post my batch file if you want.
2) You can leave it off until you need it. To make this work you'd need to make a theater view item that starts loopback in the loopback zone, and then switches the zone back to your playback zone and run netflix. You could do this by writing a batch (similar to the one above) and launching it from a theater view item, and then starting netflix (two button presses). You might also be able to leverage zoneswitch to do some of the heavy lifting on that, but I could never quite get that to work as expected in all cases (I think because I already have several zones that I was trying to integrate into the scheme, it might work better with just the two zones).
