[mythtv-users] MythTV Player 1.1.5 available to all on Google Play Store
Eric Sharkey
eric at lisaneric.org
Wed Apr 15 03:29:27 UTC 2015
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
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