<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Matt Emmott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:memmott@gmail.com" target="_blank">memmott@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Tom Harris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thom.j.harris@gmail.com" target="_blank">thom.j.harris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I use my MythTV frontend via an N bridge (Apple Airport to Time Capsule) and MPEG2 streaming is flawless for me. I get ~160Mbps throughput. But, YMMV based on distances, home construction materials, etc.<div><br></div><div>The bluetooth remote is an issue -- can't integrate into my universal remote. But, I guess adding an IR receiver via USB can solve that.</div><div><br></div><div>There are a few MythTV android frontend apps already. I'm hoping that one of them can be a good option, as I would really like a single device that could do commercial service streaming as well as MythTV.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></blockquote><div><br><br></div></span><div>Every Android MythTV app I've used so far has been a bit lacking. But they've been written with portable devices in mind. Perhaps one needs to be written more specifically for a device like this? My bigger problem with that was actually the Google TV box. It was quite poor, both in TV compatibility and in UX. The newer Android TV is supposed to be more like Roku or Apple TV.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I found one that worked pretty well. The main problem I had was that the skip forward action was a bit slow. I'm used to the instant skips of native mythtv, so it may be challenging to match that in an Android app.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>I can stream MPEG-2 over 11n without much of an issue at home. But does this thing decode MPEG-2 or is it expecting everything to be H.264? I wish a dang CableCard-to-H.264 device would come out, but that's another topic.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's the reason I'm interested in this new generation of "Android TV" devices. In earlier material, I read that they are required to support MPEG2 decoding, so that should standardize the capabilities across devices. The previous Google TV boxes all had different capabilities (most didn't support MPEG2) and the apps suffered for it.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>As for a remote, MythMote on my phone is pretty good, and Torc on my iPad is fantastic (or was, the last time I used it). Hopefully if the Logitech folks can get in on this, the Harmony Smart Control with its legacy-style remote could be an option.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Since this is Atom plus PowerVR I don't see much chance of somebody loading a true Linux distribution on it. Especially since, as mentioned above, the MythTV plugin for Plex works well enough to at least access recorded content. Maybe it's time to develop a true Android-based FE? Of course, I say this having no development skills or anything productive to add to such a project. :-)<br></div></div></div></div>
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