[mythtv-users] Google Nexus Player as MythTV Frontend

[Daniel Frey]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014, 6:36 PM Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have already started a frontend in the mythtv clients github for anyone
> interested. The nexus player does not support mpeg2 playback. Maybe Asus or
> google will go the raspberry pi route and allow you to purchase a license,
> but this is unlikely.
>
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014, 1:31 PM Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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> Sent too soon...

The interface is working and it will kick off a HLS live stream job on the
backend. It is very beta at this point but usable if you are interested in
playing with it. Only recordings at this point, but videos would be easy to
add as a next step.

This still relies on his jobs running for this. It would be great if it
could play native content, maybe if the recordings are pre-transcoded to
h264, but that's another step as well.
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