[mythtv-users] fire tv stick for 19.99

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does this stick support Android apps?

It should (it is based on the fire TV device), but
it likely only uses the Amazon appstore marketplace,
so you may need to sideload.

> Does the Fire TV stick support MPEG2?

The *hardware* supports mpeg2.  Whether
that is licensed on the stick, and how that is
made available to the apps (if at all) is unknown
since mpeg2 decoding has not been part of the
previous media player APIs.  In the Amazon
world, there is a special API via a proprietary
(licensable) software stack that I think may
implement MPEG2 decoding along with some
DRM capabilities that is required for HDCP
enforcement.

Likely that some software that does not bother
to respect the MPEG-LA license could just access
the hardware directly and gain access to the
decoder functionality.