<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 8:07 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 30, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><br>
> I don't know whether the fire tv stick is different to the fire tv STB<br>
> (which is $100). However the STB has proved a capable XBMC machine, if<br>
> you take into account the limitations of Android (no HD audio, no auto<br>
> frame rate switching, no decent deinterlacing). You have to root or<br>
> sideload, and recent shipping versions have defeated the root method.<br>
> However sideloading still works. You can also use android apps like<br>
> NetFlix etc. Of course once you have XBMC you have a mythtv frontend<br>
> of sorts, although see above re deinterlacing. There are mixed reports<br>
> of mpeg2 abilities.<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Plex is already released for the FIreTV. You can use the MythTV Plex channel to connect to and view recordings (and it will auto-transcode when remote), though the interface is clunky. I had Plex indexing all my recordings via Symlinks created by Mythlink.pl with metadata and it worked pretty well for a while, but broke a while ago and I'm not sure why. If I spent a weekend banging on it I'd be able to get it back in shape I think.<br><br></div><div>My FireTV stick arrives December 3rd so I'll be sure to report back.<br></div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>
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> Its not for me, but many people love them.<br>
><br>
> If the stick can be used the same way, $20 is a very significant price<br>
> point, although does the stick have a wired ethernet port?<br>
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</span>LOL it does crack me up that we are now getting media devices's like<br>
this stick where the remote control is bigger than the computer!<br>
<div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>It's crazier than you think - I ordered a quad core Atom PC-on-an-HDMI-stick from China last week. Should be here in a couple weeks and I'm going to attempt to load MythBuntu on it. It allegedly can run a full desktop OS.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I was just checking those out too. Please let us know how it goes for you. I was holding off to compare these to the similar hardware of the Google Nexus Player (also quad Atom).</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></div></div><br></div></div>
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