Reddit reviews Gefen HDmi Detective Plus
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Supports HD resolutions up to 1080p Full HDProgrammable or can be used with selection of 5 pre-programmed EDID profilesWrite-protection switchNo power required after initial programming3DTV, CEC and Lip-Sync Pass-through
These supposedly fix the problem: http://www.amazon.com/Gefen-EXT-HDMI-EDIDP-HDmi-Detective-Plus/dp/B001RIMZUW
Its a handshake issue. Your easiest solution will be to add a piece of hardware between the htpc and tv that doesn't have the problem.
I had a very similar problem. 5 different HDMI card's over 2 HTPC's and 2 different receivers of troubleshooting and it appeared that the HDCP handshake would be lost after initial power on (fine on the first run).
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I've read that the HDmi Detective plus can fix that. I recently bought one but haven't had a chance to set it up yet.
As long as you use HDMI, most receivers will have problems. You're running into HDCP handshake issues. The quickest, easiest (though not cheapest) way around that is to get an HDMI Detective. Definitely worth it for me just for the benefit to Wife Acceptance Factor.
> I have to leave the computer on and awake 24/7 because I don't trust it to wake up to record my shows.
Really? I don't have any trouble there. It wakes the system for recordings just fine. The only trouble I've had in the past is no video on resume, and this is usually caused by my receiver being off when it wakes up so the system thinks no video device is plugged in and it won't initialize video. Recordings still happen though, all of them. You just need to reboot the system if it gets stuck like this.
Thankfully the fix for me and many others is an HDMI Detective. It's not cheap but it fixed a huge pet peeve I had with the system.
MKVs are just a container format, nothing else. The video and audio inside can be multiple formats & codecs. All my blu-ray rips are the raw streams, there is no re-encoding done. The video and audio data is exactly the same as off the original blu-ray. The size of the rips is between 20-30gb. Not small to be sure, but I get the best quality.
Audio quality is important to me too, which is why I go into each MakeMKV rip of my Blu-Rays and make sure the DTS-MA or Dolby Digital HD audio track is selected (it's not by default). This audio track is then bitstreamed to my receiver.
Ahh yes, I know of the fix. Let me find the link.
Ok so it ain't cheap however this will fix the issue. The problem is that your TV is losing the handshake from HDMI and your mini. This solves that.
The guy in this blog seems to have the same problem with the reconnecting issue.
He fixed it with one of these.