[mythtv-users] Google Nexus Player as MythTV Frontend

[Matt Emmott]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 1:07 PM, 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.
> _______________________________________________


Let's forget about the format of the recordings for a moment - Assuming
that all recorded content was H.264 (or something else that this device
could handle), is it possible to get a full MythTV front end running on
this hardware?
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