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

[David Engel]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 01:45:47AM +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 8:30 PM David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
> ....
> > 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 parsed Peters statement as "anything that plays", and
> replied to that part, and not to the UI (which I would agree
> may end up slow on the lower end SoCs on devices
> that run Android).  My bad?

No problem.  I'm probably just a little more sensitive than most to
some of these issues.  Last holiday season, when I was getting excited
about Mark's resurrection of the Android port and thinking about
getting an Nvidia Shield, I was also in the market for a budget TV for
my office.  When I heard about some TVs with built in Android TV
support, I briefly considered getting one of them instead of a TV and
a Shield.  That idea quickly died after reading how anemic the Android
part of those systems really were.  They're fine for switching HDMI
inputs and running built in, popular, streaming apps where the video
is already preconverted to friendly format, but not much else.

David

> >  ... I would also not be very surprised if
> > there isn't any hardware deinterlacing.
> 
> I have seen the Shield do proper hardware MCDI
> (it uses the same GPU/VPU pipeline as some of
> their desktop GPUs).  It is, however, one of the
> exceptions in the Android world, as most of the
> SoCs running Android cannot do MCDI.  Whether
> that matters, of course. depends on if your sources
> are interlaced, whether you are one of those that
> can even perceive artifacts, whether you are rendering
> to a device where you can see artifacts (possibly not
> on a 4" display, possibly yes on an 80" OLED), and
> whether you value quality (over cheap).  The Sony
> hardware *can* do MCDI (otherwise their US OTA
> experience would look terrible), but I do not know if
> their framework can use it (I seem to recall even with
> the Shield there were issues using the MCDI capability
> during various early OS variants).
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David Engel
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