[mythtv-users] Amazon fire stick 4K
Peter Bennett
pb.mythtv at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 23:32:26 UTC 2018
On 12/10/18 5:51 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
> This time I tried an old (Feb 2016) DVB-T2 1920x1080 at 25.00fps
> recording that seems to have escaped my post-processing efforts, and
> it locked up perhaps 30 seconds in, during the closing scenes of the
> programme before. That was with mediacodec decoding. It's playing
> fine and looking good with ffmpeg decoding, although all 4 cores are
> at around 90% load in scenes with a lot of detail; I think I've seen
> one, of a crowd of flamingos, cited in the past as a test. The image
> quality makes me think I should perhaps replace my defunct HD tuner
> after all.
>
Mediacodec locks up on the Fire Stick 4K when playing MPEG2. Was this an
MPEG2 recording? Do you have a profile that forces MPEG2 to use standard
decoding? You need that.
(https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Android#Amazon_Fire_TV_Stick_4K).
Peter
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