[mythtv-users] [mythtv] Mediacodec problem with fire stick 4K

[John Pilkington]

On 06/12/2018 08:20, John wrote:
> On 06/12/2018 00:01, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 12/5/18 6:13 PM, Aman Gupta wrote:
>>> I've gotten reports that this freeze issue also happens with h264 
>>> MediaCodec decoding on the 4K Stick, which further suggests this is 
>>> an issue with ffmpeg's mediacodec wrapper.
>>>
>> I have been running mediacodec playing h264 video on a fire stick 4K 
>> for a few hours each day for a couple of weeks and I have not seen any 
>> freeze.
>>
>> Peter

> High thanks Peter for the great work on the firestick 4k. Mine is not 
> reliable but that is possibly due to the local broadcast standard. I am 
> receiving UK DVB-S2 from Astra 28.2 - Freesat which is 1280i 50Hz. Could 
> you release a 32 bit binary of the latest build so I can retest. 
> Incidentally I am displaying on a UHD TV, will try forcing it into HD 
> when testing next time.
> 
> Has anybody else got reliable operation with UK broadcast standard?

After my initial fumblings mine is giving excellent results with 
DVB-T/T2 recordings and 'Videos' created from them, playing on an 
1920x1080 TV.  I don't have content or hardware for 4k, but bought that 
model because it seemed likely to be more capable.

I have had it doing all that with software decoding, because h264 
post-processed by my experimental ffmpeg-based cutting program did, 
IIRC, cause hangs at some cuts.  At present the h264 stuff is failing 
anyway, but I'm almost sure that's because I have strayed in some way 
from the recommended settings.

I don't think mythfrontend is affected by the 20-minute timeout when 
using a browser, which I mentioned in another thread, but I reset that 
to 5 hours and the tv timed out instead.

John P