[mythtv-users] Google Nexus Player as MythTV Frontend

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 20 18:22:20 UTC 2014


You mean, you mean, you mean.......

My combi transmogrifier and replicator bluetooth 5 enable smart watch,
features listed promised with the next software upgrade, may never
actually do those things?

I'm shocked and appalled.

:-)



On 20 November 2014 18:07, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> .....
>> I can stream MPEG-2 over 11n without much of an issue at home. But does this
>> thing decode MPEG-2 or is it expecting everything to be H.264? I wish a dang
>> CableCard-to-H.264 device would come out, but that's another topic.
>
> From early reports, the Nexus Player does not have the
> mpeg2 decoder specified in media_codecs.xml.
>
> Note that for simple values, every VPU that can do
> hardware decoding of H.264 can also do hardware
> decoding of MPEG2.  The PowerVR chip in the
> Nexus Player is no exception.  However, MPEG2
> decoding has to be licensed, and software enabled.
> For the ADT-1, Google apparently did both (at least
> based on the contents of the media codecs list).  Asus,
> apparently, did not do so (at least for now).  Whether
> hardware MPEG2 decoding is coming in some future
> release is not known.  I would never advise anyone
> to purchase a device hoping for future enhancements.
> You would likely be disappointed.
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