[mythtv-users] MythTV Player 1.1.5 available to all on Google Play Store

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Hika,

Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 4:59:20 AM, you wrote:

> Hoi Gary,

> Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 4:54:09 AM, you wrote:

>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 2:37 AM, Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ....
>>> I am really trying to make the experience seamless. Unfortunately, Android
>>> doesn't natively support mpg2

>> Well, technically, Android supports what the vendor has licensed,
>> coded, and enabled (and, of course, have placed in media_codecs.xml
>> so that apps are aware of the support.  There are some vendors that
>> have licensed and enabled mpeg2, although I would agree, that is
>> somewhat rare at this time (I believe that the ADT-1 enabled mpeg2,
>> as an example, and rumor is that the shield did too, although the
>> NP did not.  Also I believe the N7 2013 has mpeg2 enabled with
>> lollipop).
>> _______________________________________________

> Just a dumb question.
> Android is Linux.
> Linux supports mpeg2.
> Where is the problem. Or does your device needing to be rooted to add
> native Linux support?


And then Why do we as opensource community do we allow Google to
downgrade us?




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