[mythtv-users] Amazon Fire Stick 4K on sale for half price

[James Abernathy]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 3:24 PM John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 24/11/2019 19:27, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> > On 24/11/2019 17:40, Peter Bennett wrote:
> >> The fire stick 4K works just as well as the shield as far as I can
> >> tell. See the notes in the wiki on setting up mythfrontend for
> >> android, there are some specific things to do for fire4k.
> >
> > Does that mean you get perfect glitch free silky smooth 1080i50 (or
> > 1080i60 - depending on where you are based) playback?
>
> In my experience, using Peter's builds, the 'i' is the problem.  The
> leanfront's video is liable to freeze on it, or not play at all.  Some
> programmes in the UK appear to mix i and p.  The MythTV Frontend build
> can do this very well, using software decoding, but its 4 cores
> sometimes struggle to keep up.  It does offer access to lots of other
> stuff too, and that seems to play flawlessly.  You may, or may not,
> think that that is a good thing.  I bought mine a year ago and it has
> been updated online, but I suppose current models might not be identical.
>
> John P
>
> I'm doing some planning prior to receiving my Fire Stick 4K.  Should I run
the 64 bit or 32 bit version of mythfrontend and leanfront?  On the Shield
TV I run the 64 bit.  I just didn't see it listed in the wiki which version
to use for the Fire Stick 4K.

Jim A
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