[mythtv-users] Sony Android TV does not play AVC [h.264] recordings from MythTV UPNP - but from MiniDLNA

[David Engel]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 07:47:55PM +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 6:52 PM David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 02:16:11PM -0400, Peter Bennett wrote:
> > > ...  Anything that plays in MythTV should play in the android build.
> 
> > I'm not as optimistic.  The SOCs used in those TVs with built in
> > Android TV support are notoriously weak have limited RAM and storage
> > space.
> 
> I suspect that Peter was referencing those things that have
> hardware (mediacodec) support on the platform (or are of
> extremely low complexity), which will not be all content
> (or even consistent across platforms).  The Shield TV has

I know.  However, even with hardware, video decoding, the rest of
MythTV is not very lean.  I would not be very surprised if the MythTV
GUI and OSD are pretty slugish.  I would also not be very surprised if
there isn't any hardware deinterlacing.  The TV's main chipset will
support deinterlacing, but I doubt the Android TV SOC will be able to
use it.

David

> notably more capability than some other SoCs, and given
> enough time that capability is likely to be in all devices, so
> the answer may be to wait a few generations of SoC.
> 
> Notably, (for the OP), there are reports on other forums
> that at least *some* Sony Android TV variants do not
> expose the TV's hardware decoding to the Android
> frameworks (so the TV can do hardware decoding and
> MCDI itself, but some Android Apps have to do at least
> some of the processing in software, with decidedly
> mixed (i.e. crappy) results).  I have no idea if later variants
> of the Sony TVs or OS and/or subsystem have improved
> the situation.
> 
> So, as is usually the case, YMWV.
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David Engel
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