<div dir="ltr"><div><div>You may want to check out the Nvidia Shield AndroidTV iff you haven't already purchased the Roku. I received one for Christmas last year and my family loves it. Kodi or SPMC run well and play all of our MythTV recordings from HDHR tuners. As an unexpected bonus we are able to watch Live TV via Kodi and MythtTV. We're not a sports family so I'm not sure what streaming options are available for that but we found everything we used to stream via Roku 2XS is available on the Shield Android TV.<br><br></div>Plex server can also run on the Shield and will include DVR functionality soon. The HDHR DVR is expected to run on Shield as well but I doubt either will hold a candle to MythTV.<br><br>Just a thought if the hardware hasn't been purchased.<br></div>-Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:28 AM Jim Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@outlook.com">jfabernathy@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
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<div>On 09/15/2016 07:53 PM, George Mari
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On 9/10/16 9:46 AM, James Abernathy wrote:<br>
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I’m a longtime Mythtv and DirecTV user. I started using Mythtv
with HDHomeRun and HVR-2250 to offload my DirecTV 2 channel
recording limit by recording all OTA local channels on Mythtv
and using the DirecTV DVR for recording Satellite only channels.
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<blockquote type="cite">With all that said, I’m now trying to figure out the
fewest interfaces on my TV so my wife and I can view everything.
She can work DirecTV, so I think she will be able to work Roku
and Kodi. But it sure would be nice to get it to just the Roku.
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<div>That means I need to setup/convert Mythtv to be
compatible with Roku.</div>
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One stumbling block I am aware of is that OTA recordings are
native MPEG2 format, while most set-top boxes such Roku, if they
support something like UPNP, natively support MP4 or H.264 or
whatever. <br>
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I noticed that there are Roku solutions that use a Windows PC to run
a transcode to h.264 and serve as a go between for the Mythtv and
Roku. I don't see why I can't setup an automatic job to transcode
and leave the files in place as a part of the database on the
backend. I would just need a Roku frontend that could talk to the
mythtv backend. I find that commercial detection is about 90%
effective and that last 10% can drive you crazy during playback, so
having the 30 second skip is about all I need.<br>
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I find all the transcode scripts that use Handbrake or ffmpeg are
broken in 0.28 and have reported the bug in mythtranscode, so I will
have to do this in 0.27. I could modify the script at:
<a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Transcode_Mpeg2_to_H264" target="_blank">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Transcode_Mpeg2_to_H264</a><br>
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or <a href="https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1261" target="_blank">https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1261</a><br>
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but these scripts transcode lossless mpeg2 to mpeg2 to another
location and apply commercial detection prior to mpeg2 to mp4
transcoding with Handbrake/ffmpeg. mythtranscode with the -o option
is where the bug is.<br>
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Because I have a Logitech Harmony Smart Control I think I can setup
a one button control to switch between, my Kodi frontend computer
and the Koku. I have the Harmony completely controlling the Kodi.
If I can do the same with Roku, I could make this seamless for the
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think you can meet at least this requirement by transcoding all
your MythTV records to MPEG4. <br>
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You would lose commercial detection / skipping, but maybe the
set-top box you "connect" to MythTV allows skip ahead by 30
seconds, so maybe not an issue.<br>
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