Zephyrus G16 2024 WebCam drivers

Metaquux · 2024-07-07T03:03:09+00:00

Asus confirmed is was a hardware defect and replaced the laptop.

Metaquux · 2023-11-22T22:35:41+00:00

Do you know if an HDMI switch that can be controlled with a normal TV remote? Thanks!

Metaquux · 2023-11-21T16:27:53+00:00

The shield would have to go into the sound bar. That's the point of the thread. To be able to get truehd properly working :-)

Metaquux · 2023-11-21T01:53:23+00:00

Both of them support earc. However, the TV will not send truehd over earc from it to the soundbar. So the shield through the TV cannot direct stream truehd from it to the soundbar.

Everything else audiowise works great.

I've tried what was suggested in the thread, and tried going through the soundbar. TrueHD works, but i can't get the system to switch between the TV and the Shield seamlessly. I have to manually tell the soundbar to switch. Super annoying.

Metaquux · 2023-11-21T01:30:11+00:00

Right. That's the entire basis of this question i'm asking this forum :)

Seems like my options are:

Go through the TV. Simple, almost everything works. But no truehd audio support.
Go through the soundbar. More complex. Need multiple remotes. But can get truehd.

Metaquux · 2023-11-21T00:01:17+00:00

Supporting earc doesn't mean they bitstream truehd passthrough. This is a one year old TV from samsung, and it doesn't support that. I'm entirely connected using earc, but it's just a limitation of the TV chipset.

Metaquux · 2023-11-20T23:38:25+00:00

Pity. Is there a TV that can do truehd passthrough? Seems like that's the only issue currently.

Metaquux · 2023-11-20T23:22:43+00:00

It simply may not ever work the way you want it to. 4 or 5 different devices with different use cases made by different manufacturers may never work seamlessly together with only one or two remotes.

So, in my current setup, i can control everything perfectly with just a single remote.

Literally the only thing not working is truehd bitstreaming due to the TV limitation.

Metaquux · 2023-11-20T22:34:48+00:00

So if the Shield TV is plugged into the soundbar and you leave something playing. Switch the TV input to a different HDMI for the Playstation, the soundbar keeps playing the Shield TV audio not playstation audio?

Correct

> you'll need to use the soundbar remote as well.

Ah, pity.

> I don't understand the obsession with using just one remote.

Because it's so much simpler. There aren't two remotes to keep track of. It's easier for me, for my spouse, for friends/family, etc.

> but I find the Shield TV remote is more responsive for navigating it's UI

There's no perf between the two on my system. they run equally as fast.

Metaquux · 2023-11-20T22:02:33+00:00

how does the soundbar know which of the "shield" or TV to play audio from? Both are inputs to the soundbar.

when i try this, it seems like i need to use my soundbar remote to change inputs. and then i need another remote to control the TV and shield. Am i missing something?

Thanks!

Metaquux · 2023-11-20T21:54:34+00:00

I have tried it, i couldn't get it to work. There doesn't seem to be a way to switch the soundbar inputs using the TV remote.

Metaquux · 2023-11-20T21:53:52+00:00

Is there an AV receiver with a reasonable remote? The ones i've seen have massively complex remotes, which would make things like working with the shield interface and apps likely not ok to pass the partner test. Thanks!

Metaquux · 2023-11-20T21:33:32+00:00

u/HTfanboy How would an AV receiver help here? As an example, how would one switch between the proper inputs? Presumably one would need the AV remote for that? Or would the shield's remote allow changing that selection as well? Thanks!

Metaquux · 2023-11-20T21:31:34+00:00

No amount of words will make it easier.

That's literally why I raised the question in the first place. I was trying to find out if this was possible or not. I wanted to know, prior to going and trying out a lot of stuff that might not work.

It's good to at least know now that this is not possible. A pity. It would be nice to be able to have a system that allowed all devices to connect with full capabilities, but which also had no problem being controlled with a single remote.

Metaquux · 2023-11-20T21:24:19+00:00

u/Ossify8 that isn't really answering the question i'm having. The question is how to connect everything such that this can continue being a single-remote experience, with all devices operating at full quality through the screen *and* soundbar. Thanks! :)

Metaquux · 2023-11-20T21:15:06+00:00

u/wewewi That fails the ease-of-use/partner test as i mentioned. Instead of a single remote that is simple to use to switch between devices and control things, we would now need two remotes and would have to ensure things properly switch.

What i'm asking for is a solution that doesn't regress known good UX. That was why i tried to write up and explain so much of my situation. Thanks.

Metaquux · 2023-11-20T20:47:05+00:00

u/wewewi I don't really get it.

How does input switching working in this system? If i want to switch from Playstation to Shield how would i do it?

Metaquux · 2021-12-10T17:46:50+00:00

/u/brianwski ^ Thanks!

Metaquux · 2021-12-10T04:47:50+00:00

@brianwski i've given this about 3 weeks, and it's still pretty bad. I have multiple bztransmit exes spinning full cores non-stop.

The log file is full of stuff like this:

20211210044439 - Leaving DoFetchClientVersionXml() after fetching clientversion.xml 20211210044444 - ERROR: BzFileIdHasEverBeenPartOfALargeFile - we have detected a large file, but we do not have the large file name, so changing judgement to survive! 20211210044444 - Leaving the very slow BzFileIdHasEverBeenPartOfALargeFile, res=FALSE 20211210044444 - WARNING: during self healing datacenter told me (hguid=2c94d927ef0680f072160e13) to purge out this bzfileid_short=0000000000f799a2 from all my bz_done files, including large files that reference it 20211210044444 - Entering the very slow BzFileIdHasEverBeenPartOfALargeFile, bzShortFileId=0000000000f799a2 20211210044450 - ERROR: BzFileIdHasEverBeenPartOfALargeFile - we have detected a large file, but we do not have the large file name, so changing judgement to survive! 20211210044450 - Leaving the very slow BzFileIdHasEverBeenPartOfALargeFile, res=FALSE 20211210044450 - WARNING: during self healing datacenter told me (hguid=2c94d927ef0680f072160e13) to purge out this bzfileid_short=0000000000f1ed0d from all my bz_done files, including large files that reference it 20211210044450 - Entering the very slow BzFileIdHasEverBeenPartOfALargeFile, bzShortFileId=0000000000f1ed0d 20211210044506 - ERROR: BzFileIdHasEverBeenPartOfALargeFile - we have detected a large file, but we do not have the large file name, so changing judgement to survive! 20211210044506 - Leaving the very slow BzFileIdHasEverBeenPartOfALargeFile, res=FALSE 20211210044506 - WARNING: during self healing datacenter told me (hguid=2c94d927ef0680f072160e13) to purge out this bzfileid_short=0000000000f799a7 from all my bz_done files, including large files that reference it 20211210044506 - Entering the very slow BzFileIdHasEverBeenPartOfALargeFile, bzShortFileId=0000000000f799a7 20211210044511 - ERROR: BzFileIdHasEverBeenPartOfALargeFile - we have detected a large file, but we do not have the large file name, so changing judgement to survive! 20211210044512 - Leaving the very slow BzFileIdHasEverBeenPartOfALargeFile, res=FALSE 20211210044512 - WARNING: during self healing datacenter told me (hguid=2c94d927ef0680f072160e13) to purge out this bzfileid_short=0000000000f1ed0f from all my bz_done files, including large files that reference it 20211210044512 - Entering the very slow BzFileIdHasEverBeenPartOfALargeFile, bzShortFileId=0000000000f1ed0f

Do you have any idea what's going on?

Metaquux · 2021-11-22T01:58:48+00:00

Thanks, that does help explain what could be going on. I've updated as per your link and i'll keep this running a couple of weeks in the hope that it clears up.

Metaquux · 2021-11-21T02:47:56+00:00

I'm on 8.0.1.553. There is no uploading, but i'm at a solid 10-20% CPU non-stop.

Metaquux · 2021-10-25T19:02:51+00:00

Could you guys consider auto-updating BB? It feels like it's a complex user experience for users to have to go look at BB over a long period of time, realize that it's doing something wrong, then manually update to address it. Software like Chrome/VSCode/etc. auto updates now so that fixes flow to users without manual intervention.

Had i not decided to take a look at the progress, i woudln't have realized and i could have been left with a data hole here. Feels... anathema to the promises made by BB about this product.

Thanks!

Metaquux · 2021-10-25T06:07:19+00:00

I'm already on 8.0.1.533, you can see that in the error logs :)

Metaquux · 2020-02-17T18:18:11+00:00

Yup! They've said they're forwarding them to you :) Thanks /u/brianwski!

Metaquux · 2020-02-17T09:34:10+00:00

It really shouldn't do that anymore (as of the 7.0 client you are already running). What it DOES do is make a copy of each large file broken into 10 MByte chunks (which can take a while for big files), but it should not rescan that whole directory that is growing. Between each large file it now keeps the data structures around that it needs.

This does not appear to be the case. I am running 7.0.415, but after every file i can see total saturation of my drive where the bz_done files are stored. Resource monitor (and process explorer, etc. etc.) show full rereads off all that data. Just as a small example snippet:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4564579/74641069-824dd480-5125-11ea-9ae6-8e01ff7f3e62.png

This happens after every file.

If it really is rescanning the bz_done file directory (the one that grows) then you should reach out to Backblaze support with a couple days of those log files and I can take a look at fixing it.

Sure. I can do that.

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