[mythtv-users] fire tv stick for 19.99

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <
> gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Uggh.   So close yet so far.  Maybe the Android TV devices will finally
> provide a good MPEG2 platform.
>
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Or we will get lucky and the cables cos will phase out MPEG2. We can only
dream.

-Tom
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