[mythtv-users] fire tv stick for 19.99

Tom Harris thom.j.harris at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 16:49:48 UTC 2014


On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I don't know whether the fire tv stick is different to the fire tv STB
>> > (which is $100). However the STB has proved a capable XBMC machine, if
>> > you take into account the limitations of Android (no HD audio, no auto
>> > frame rate switching, no decent deinterlacing). You have to root or
>> > sideload, and recent shipping versions have defeated the root method.
>> > However sideloading still works. You can also use android apps like
>> > NetFlix etc. Of course once you have XBMC you have a mythtv frontend
>> > of sorts, although see above re deinterlacing. There are mixed reports
>> > of mpeg2 abilities.
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> Plex is already released for the FIreTV. You can use the MythTV Plex
> channel to connect to and view recordings (and it will auto-transcode when
> remote), though the interface is clunky. I had Plex indexing all my
> recordings via Symlinks created by Mythlink.pl with metadata and it worked
> pretty well for a while, but broke a while ago and I'm not sure why. If I
> spent a weekend banging on it I'd be able to get it back in shape I think.
>
> My FireTV stick arrives December 3rd so I'll be sure to report back.
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>> > Its not for me, but many people love them.
>> >
>> > If the stick can be used the same way, $20 is a very significant price
>> > point, although does the stick have a wired ethernet port?
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>> LOL it does crack me up that we are now getting media devices's like
>> this stick where the remote control is bigger than the computer!
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> It's crazier than you think - I ordered a quad core Atom
> PC-on-an-HDMI-stick from China last week. Should be here in a couple weeks
> and I'm going to attempt to load MythBuntu on it. It allegedly can run a
> full desktop OS.
>


I was just checking those out too.  Please let us know how it goes for you.
  I was holding off to compare these to the similar hardware of the Google
Nexus Player (also quad Atom).


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