[mythtv-users] fire tv as mythtv frontend

[Bryan Dagerman]

I'm interested to find out how your testing goes. I am considering getting
one to do the same thing.


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:49 PM, jacek burghardt
<jaceksburghardt at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well for 200 I hope to get fire tv that will be here in few days and I can
> run some testing
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:39 PM, HP-mini <blm-ubunet at slingshot.co.nz>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 16:46 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
>> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Bryan Dagerman <bdagerman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > The XBMC wiki on it says it doesn't do hardware decode of MPEG-2,
>> which is
>> > > (I think) what recordings from the HDHomeRun are. So if that is the
>> case, I
>> > > wonder how well it will do playing those recordings.
>> >
>> > HDHR recordings, like all digital TV recordings in mythtv are whatever
>> > the broadcaster sends, so yes in the US/Canada that is mpeg 2. Here it
>> > is h264.
>> >
>> > I think it will handle mpeg2 ok in software, but deinterlacing is
>> > definitely an issue.
>> >
>> > Also of course android seems to be stuck on 60Hz playback, which sucks
>> > for 24p movies or PAL countries.
>> >
>> > I was initially interested in importing one, but my interest has waned
>> > over these issues. I'd be more interested in a $169US chromebox, which
>> > will run linux, including openelec.
>> > _______________________________________________
>> nVidia Jetson TK1 ?
>> Will be even more money ~US$200 but with proper GPU h/w & driver.
>> But it's not shipping yet..
>>
>>
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