[mythtv-users] FireStick vs Shield

[Greg Oliver]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 4:35 PM Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am over at a friend's watching football today and installed Mythfrontend
> on a firestick 4k.  He already has Shields on most TVs, but this was a
> lot cheaper for spare bedrooms.
>
> The Shields here (USA / HDHR tuners / ATSC) require a back press for
> LiveTV and the Shield does not.  I assume this is due to using the CPU on
> the shield and MediaCodec on the firestick, but does anyone know if I can
> do anything to change the behaviour on the Shield to not require it?
>
> Other than the video playback settings, all others are the same I copied
> the profile in the database.
>

Well, I had to switch to the standard decoder for NBC, and the behaviour
followed to the firestick too.  I guess mediacodec video takes a different
path.  I never watch LiveTV, but they do all the time here.

Setting avsync2 to 40 fixes the initial non-recovering stuttering and
setting audio sync to -40 puts the out of sync lips back.

Just an FYI for firestick US users...

I do get some opengl menu artifacts when changing from a menu or epg to
watching Live TV (does not happen on recordings), but they only last a
couple seconds usually.



> Thanks for any pointers
>
> -Greg
>
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