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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Likewise </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dean<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Matt Emmott<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 14, 2014 12:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> Discussion about MythTV<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [mythtv-users] fire tv as mythtv frontend<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Bryan Dagerman <<a href="mailto:bdagerman@gmail.com" target="_blank">bdagerman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm interested to find out how your testing goes. I am considering getting one to do the same thing.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:49 PM, jacek burghardt <<a href="mailto:jaceksburghardt@gmail.com" target="_blank">jaceksburghardt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Well for 200 I hope to get fire tv that will be here in few days and I can run some testing <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:39 PM, HP-mini <<a href="mailto:blm-ubunet@slingshot.co.nz" target="_blank">blm-ubunet@slingshot.co.nz</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 16:46 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:<br>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Bryan Dagerman <<a href="mailto:bdagerman@gmail.com" target="_blank">bdagerman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > The XBMC wiki on it says it doesn't do hardware decode of MPEG-2, which is<br>> > (I think) what recordings from the HDHomeRun are. So if that is the case, I<br>> > wonder how well it will do playing those recordings.<br>><br>> HDHR recordings, like all digital TV recordings in mythtv are whatever<br>> the broadcaster sends, so yes in the US/Canada that is mpeg 2. Here it<br>> is h264.<br>><br>> I think it will handle mpeg2 ok in software, but deinterlacing is<br>> definitely an issue.<br>><br>> Also of course android seems to be stuck on 60Hz playback, which sucks<br>> for 24p movies or PAL countries.<br>><br>> I was initially interested in importing one, but my interest has waned<br>> over these issues. I'd be more interested in a $169US chromebox, which<br>> will run linux, including openelec.<br>> _______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>nVidia Jetson TK1 ?<br>Will be even more money ~US$200 but with proper GPU h/w & driver.<br>But it's not shipping yet..<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It looks like the FireTV's have 2GB of RAM, which should be enough to run a proper front end, no? I realize that it's an ARM processor which would require a bit more development, but are the specs good enough for a real $99 FE? Even if it's limited to H.264 only, I'm fine with getting one of the new HDHRs that outputs H.264 natively or running some ffmpeg magic to transcode all my recordings in realtime. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>