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

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 03:26:53 UTC 2015


Hoi Eric,

Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 5:29:27 AM, you wrote:

> 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
> _______________________________________________

Forget my previous post. I get annoyed with google trying to close
down linux. If as Eric says, why not include the mpeg2 decoder in the
package?


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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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