[mythtv-users] MythTV Player 1.1.5 available to all on Google Play Store

[Eric Sharkey]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a dumb question.
> Android is Linux.
> Linux supports mpeg2.

Android uses a Linux kernel.  It doesn't ship with all the user-space
software you would expect with a "Linux" operating system.  The kernel
is just a small piece of a full distribution and there's no mpeg2
decoder in the Linux kernel.

If you want to install a third party mpeg2 player (like MX player) you
can do so without rooting the device.  It's just that the Android
user-space software that ships with most devices does not include
mpeg2 support.

Eric