[mythtv] Mediacodec problem with fire stick 4K

[John Pilkington]

On 21/11/18 12:05, Paul Harrison wrote:
> On 21/11/2018 00:57, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 10:33 PM Aman Gupta <aman at tmm1.net> wrote:
>>
>>> The hardware mpeg2 decoder on that device is extremely buggy.
>> At least a few companies have reported the issue to Amazon.
>> I have not heard about any explicit commitment regarding a
>> fix (let alone a date).  At least one company has stated that
>> they have some mitigations in place to try to avoid the issues,
>> but the underlying hardware/firmware/OS need to be fixed.
>> I suspect that as it does not effect Prime Video nor Netflix
>> they have not made it a highest priority to address.

The file formats listed for the device as offered in the UK don't list 
anything that looks to me like mpeg2

Video: Dolby Vision, HDR 10, HDR10+, HLG, H.265, H.264 and VP9. Audio: 
AAC-LC, AC3, eAC3 (Dolby Digital Plus), FLAC, MP3, PCM/Wave, Vorbis and 
Dolby Atmos (EC3_JOC). Photo: JPEG, PNG, GIF and BMP.

> 
> 
> That's a shame I was just about to pull the trigger and get one to use
> as an additional FE since they are on special offer at the moment. Glad
> I saw this before I did :)
> 
> 
> Anyone tried one of the cheap Android boxes as a FE? Any recommendations
> I'm going round in circles trying to figure out which one to get.
> 
> 
> Regard Paul
> 
> 
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