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MPEG2 works fine with Raspberry Pi (you have to pay $2 for the
MPEG-2 license). All of the programs are broadcast here in mpeg2
(Massachusetts). I do not know about 4K, I have only tried up to
1920*1080.<br>
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Regarding Android - The Kodi setup was a bit of a challenge. I had
to compile Kodi and the myth pvr plugin because the versions
available in repositories were not right. For Android I have no
idea of how to do that and I have never tried "rooting" a machine.
On the Raspberry pi Linux I am able to use some of the scripts I
have been using already for the mythtv setups. Maybe Linux is
easier for me just because I am familiar with it, and it is the
same OS as mythtv itself.<br>
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Peter<br>
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Was this a while ago that you had to compile? Perhaps it was simply
an issue with your chosen disto, we all get that sometimes. I use
OpenSUSE 13.2 and the standard RPMs had everything I needed.
Similarly, on Android it was just a case of downloading the .apk and
installing that, no need to root anything.<br>
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For clarity, my own desktop is also "the same OS as mythtv itself",
and in fact I'm in the process of installing KODI on the ACER REVOs
(running OpenSUSE also). I already have one with KODI installed and
I'm doing some testing on it with KODI as a menu option so that I
can still go back to MythFrontend if I find something I'd missed.
This is the box that I see MythFrontend taking a couple of seconds
to start playing MP4 files, while KODI starts immediately.<br>
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Obviously all of these observations are down to individual
configurations, both hardware and software and everyone's experience
will differ greatly, which is why some people swear by one way of
doing things, and others stick with their own preference.<br>
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I agree with the familiarity point, I use SUSE for that very reason,
having used it since the 90s, however if I never tried anything new,
I'd still be running SCO XENIX 286 on my home PC!<br>
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Cheers<br>
Gordon<br>
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