<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:46 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><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="">On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com" target="_blank">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Tom Harris <<a href="mailto:thom.j.harris@gmail.com" target="_blank">thom.j.harris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Does this stick support Android apps?<br>
<br>
</span>It should (it is based on the fire TV device), but<br>
it likely only uses the Amazon appstore marketplace,<br>
so you may need to sideload.<br>
<span><br>
> Does the Fire TV stick support MPEG2?<br>
<br>
</span>The *hardware* supports mpeg2. Whether<br>
that is licensed on the stick, and how that is<br>
made available to the apps (if at all) is unknown<br>
since mpeg2 decoding has not been part of the<br>
previous media player APIs. In the Amazon<br>
world, there is a special API via a proprietary<br>
(licensable) software stack that I think may<br>
implement MPEG2 decoding along with some<br>
DRM capabilities that is required for HDCP<br>
enforcement.<br>
<br>
Likely that some software that does not bother<br>
to respect the MPEG-LA license could just access<br>
the hardware directly and gain access to the<br>
decoder functionality.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Uggh. So close yet so far. Maybe the Android TV devices will finally provide a good MPEG2 platform.</div><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Or we will get lucky and the cables cos will phase out MPEG2. We can only dream.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Tom</div></div>