[mythtv-users] *** mythfrontend is not being removed ***

[Larry Kennedy]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 4:59 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:

> On 26/03/2018 23:29, David Engel wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:40:30PM +0100, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>
>>> On 26/03/2018 15:24, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All
>>>>
>>>> Paul Harrison's April Fool's joke about removing mythfrontend seems to
>>>> have been taken seriously by many folks. There are no plans for that, in
>>>> fact we plan to expand the frontend to support Android TV devices like
>>>> the NVidia Shield.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Any chance of supporting the Amazon Fire stick?
>>>
>>
>> When hardware decoding is added, there's a good chance it will work
>> for progressive content.  I believe the current FireTV (not stick)
>> supports hardware deinterlacing so it will proably work for interlaced
>> content too.  The older FireTVs and sticks, including the current one,
>> could be out of luck or have to accept inferior deinterlacing.
>>
>
> Amazing! I've been pleased to see my frontends diminish in size over the
> years, and imagined that trend might continue, but I'd never considered
> the possibility of its physical form, in effect, disappearing
> altogether.
>
>
Thank God!  That was a horrible joke to those of us who use the Myth FE and
are hooked on the commercial skip feature not available elsewhere.


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