[mythtv-users] fire tv stick for 19.99

[Tom Harris]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Does this stick support Android apps?
>
> It should (it is based on the fire TV device), but
> it likely only uses the Amazon appstore marketplace,
> so you may need to sideload.
>
> > Does the Fire TV stick support MPEG2?
>
> The *hardware* supports mpeg2.  Whether
> that is licensed on the stick, and how that is
> made available to the apps (if at all) is unknown
> since mpeg2 decoding has not been part of the
> previous media player APIs.  In the Amazon
> world, there is a special API via a proprietary
> (licensable) software stack that I think may
> implement MPEG2 decoding along with some
> DRM capabilities that is required for HDCP
> enforcement.
>
> Likely that some software that does not bother
> to respect the MPEG-LA license could just access
> the hardware directly and gain access to the
> decoder functionality.
>

Uggh.   So close yet so far.  Maybe the Android TV devices will finally
provide a good MPEG2 platform.


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