[mythtv-users] Google Nexus Player as MythTV Frontend

[Tom Harris]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014, 6:36 PM Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have already started a frontend in the mythtv clients github for anyone
>> interested. The nexus player does not support mpeg2 playback. Maybe Asus or
>> google will go the raspberry pi route and allow you to purchase a license,
>> but this is unlikely.
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014, 1:31 PM Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <
>>> gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> .....
>>>> > I can stream MPEG-2 over 11n without much of an issue at home. But
>>>> does this
>>>> > thing decode MPEG-2 or is it expecting everything to be H.264? I wish
>>>> a dang
>>>> > CableCard-to-H.264 device would come out, but that's another topic.
>>>>
>>>> From early reports, the Nexus Player does not have the
>>>> mpeg2 decoder specified in media_codecs.xml.
>>>>
>>>> Note that for simple values, every VPU that can do
>>>> hardware decoding of H.264 can also do hardware
>>>> decoding of MPEG2.  The PowerVR chip in the
>>>> Nexus Player is no exception.  However, MPEG2
>>>> decoding has to be licensed, and software enabled.
>>>> For the ADT-1, Google apparently did both (at least
>>>> based on the contents of the media codecs list).  Asus,
>>>> apparently, did not do so (at least for now).  Whether
>>>> hardware MPEG2 decoding is coming in some future
>>>> release is not known.  I would never advise anyone
>>>> to purchase a device hoping for future enhancements.
>>>> You would likely be disappointed.
>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> Let's forget about the format of the recordings for a moment - Assuming
>>> that all recorded content was H.264 (or something else that this device
>>> could handle), is it possible to get a full MythTV front end running on
>>> this hardware?
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>> Sent too soon...
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> The interface is working and it will kick off a HLS live stream job on the
> backend. It is very beta at this point but usable if you are interested in
> playing with it. Only recordings at this point, but videos would be easy to
> add as a next step.
>
> This still relies on his jobs running for this. It would be great if it
> could play native content, maybe if the recordings are pre-transcoded to
> h264, but that's another step as well.
>
Didn't you already make a MythTV frontend app for Android (
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mythtv )?  I believe
there are a few other frontend apps also available.    Is there a problem
with the frontend app approach?
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