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> I've been running the Mythfrontend and Leanfront
apps on my Nvidia Shield<br>
> for years. However due to switching my main
streaming app from SlingTV to<br>
> DirecTV Stream so I could get the RSN channels
which carry my local NHL team<br>
> games, I've been forced to use one of my FireTV 4K
sticks instead of the<br>
> Nvidia Shield.<br>
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> This is not a problem except for the performance of
the Mythfrontend app on<br>
> the FireTV 4K. In the past I've only tested it on
recorded programs that<br>
> were HD either 1080i or 720p. While these are okay
on the FireTV 4K, it is<br>
> no where close to Leanfront, which is good on the
FireTV 4K.<br>
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> My testing has brought me to Live TV with the
mythfrontend app on the FireTV<br>
> 4K. There seems to be a huge lag in the lip-sync;
several seconds. I don't<br>
> see this with recorded programs.<br>
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> Has anyone established the best settings for
Mythfrontend v31 for the FireTV<br>
> 4K stick?<br>
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You might try the new Fire TV Stick 4K Max<br>
(<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22662985/amazon-fire-tv-stick-4k-max-announced-features-price" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22662985/amazon-fire-tv-stick-4k-max-announced-features-price</a>).<br>
Faster CPUs and more memory will help. Also, using the
simplest,<br>
plainest, MythTV theme you can find (like MythCenter)
might help too.<br>
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David<br>
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David Engel<br>
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<div dir="auto">Until I can get the new FireTV stick Max, I'm
using a 5x1 HDMI 2.0 switch. It's not ideal due to remote
complexities. I have all 5 inputs used. FireTV 4k, Nvidia
Shield, RPI4. Blu-ray player, and Linux PC. </div>
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<div dir="auto">There's a good solution in there somewhere. I
just want it simple enough that I can still figure it out
after the 3rd beer.</div>
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<p>I have noticed that the frontend is now no good on the F4K.
This is new for me it used to be fine. The change is I think at
their end.</p>
<p>I run v32 of mythfrontend with 1080p 50Hz so my experience may
be different to yours, playback on F4K is now subject to tearing
which it did not a few months ago.</p>
<p>Leanfront is still excellent.</p>
<p>I am expecting a FireTV stick Max this week will see what
happens.</p>
By the way getting issues (periodically hangs video - audio
continues) with Leanfront on a Firestick Lite which also used to
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<p>I only have the standard FireTV 4K stick and all my programs are
ATSC 1.0 OTA either 1080i@30Hz or 720p@60Hz MPEG-2. For recorded
playback, the mythfrontend is very watchable for us except in very
high action sequences. But if it's recorded we normally just use
Leanfront since it's damn near perfect. I use mythfrontend for
editing and setting up scheduled recordings. It's much easier for
that.</p>
<p>What leanfront doesn't do well is watching a program while it's
being recorded. I've found for a long time that if I start
watching an NFL football game 30 minutes after it started
recording it works until I start trying to skip a commercial. It
sometimes goes backwards after it adjust the end time which
changes after you pass the 30 minutes in my case mentioned above.
I have not found anything in the adb log that tells me anything
useful. That's one reason I use mythfrontend for watching behind
real-time on a recording.</p>
<p>Jim A</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I got my FireTV 4K Max today and at first mythfrontend was unusable, but I remembered my "unique identifier" name and when I updated the settings with that it brought back my old FireTV 4K settings and it seems to be working better. I need to tweak it more, but I don't know enough now to know how much of an improvement the Max is. </div><div><br></div><div>As an aside, my reason for starting down this path was my normal frontend was a Nvidia Shield TV but I could not get a version of DIrecTV Steam app for the Shield. I finally found an apk on the XDA Forum that works great on the Shield. I still think the Shield TV is better than the FireTV 4K Max, but haven't fully tested mythfrontend yet. Leanfront on the Max is perfect as expected.</div><div><br></div><div>jim A<br><br></div></div></div>