[mythtv-users] *** mythfrontend is not being removed ***

[Paul Gardiner]

On 26/03/2018 23:29, David Engel wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:40:30PM +0100, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> On 26/03/2018 15:24, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> Paul Harrison's April Fool's joke about removing mythfrontend seems to
>>> have been taken seriously by many folks. There are no plans for that, in
>>> fact we plan to expand the frontend to support Android TV devices like
>>> the NVidia Shield.
>>
>> Any chance of supporting the Amazon Fire stick?
> 
> When hardware decoding is added, there's a good chance it will work
> for progressive content.  I believe the current FireTV (not stick)
> supports hardware deinterlacing so it will proably work for interlaced
> content too.  The older FireTVs and sticks, including the current one,
> could be out of luck or have to accept inferior deinterlacing.

Amazing! I've been pleased to see my frontends diminish in size over the
years, and imagined that trend might continue, but I'd never considered
the possibility of its physical form, in effect, disappearing
altogether.