[mythtv-users] New Nvidia Shield TV Pro

[Jim Abernathy]

On 11/17/19 8:24 PM, Tom Harris wrote:
> I recently moved from a FireTV 4K stick to the new Shield Pro (box, 
> not tube).
>
> As expected, it works great with Peter’s latest 64 bit 0.31 build.
> I moved on from the FIre TV mainly because I dislike its home screen 
> menu.  But, the shield is much faster, more responsive, and more 
> reliable than the Fire TV — definitely a nice upgrade.
>
> A note on setup:  Following the wiki, I initially set MPEG2 to use the 
> standard decoder.  But, audio was unreliable in this mode.  It would 
> sometimes fail to resume audio after skip ahead/back.  I switched to 
> MediaCodec, and both audio and video are great — I don’t see any of 
> the video issues mentioned in the wiki.
>
> The Fire TV Stick 4k was not bad, and it’s quite a bargain.  But, for 
> me the Shield is the best frontend available today.
>
I'm also using a Shield TV from a year ago, not the pro.  I agree with 
your statement about the Shield TV being a great Frontend. For my 
recordings sometimes the Raspberry Pi 4 is a little better, but mostly 
the Shield TV is better.  Really depends on the action sequences.

I'm running the latest version 60 of the Mythtv 30 on my Shield TV.  
Since I have a v30 backend can I use the version 31 on the Shield TV???

Jim A