[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend on Fire TV doesn't detect interlace

[Paul Gardiner]

On 26/08/2019 19:23, Peter Bennett wrote:
> On 8/26/19 1:08 PM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> Actually, firstly let me say Wow! I've been wanting to try this out 
>> for some time, but my backend is stuck on v29 for now, and I've only 
>> just discovered that doesn't matter. Really very impressed. I have one 
>> of the earlier Fire TV boxes (not stick). Didn't really expect it to 
>> work, but it seems fine.
>>
>> At first some of my 50i recordings didn't seem very smooth. I ignored 
>> some of the set up advice and selected the Bob (2x) deinterlacer, and 
>> that initially didn't give any improvement. But then I went into the 
>> playback menu and noticed the system had detected the video as 
>> progressive. I overrode it as interlaced reversed and Wow (again): 
>> silky smooth. Not perfect, but really far better than I expected.
>>
>> There is a slight tick every second or so. I think it misses the odd 
>> frame, or it isn't quite in sync with the screen frame rate. Also it's 
>> a pain that I have to go into the device's set up to select the 50fps 
>> screen refresh rate (I'll have to go back and forth between 50 and 24 
>> if I'm going to run mythfrontend and netflix). And of course it's a 
>> pain that it doesn't detect the interlace correctly. Not far off 
>> though. Nearly to where I can throw away my nvidia-based frontend (if 
>> only that wasn't quite so perfect).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>     Paul.
>> _______________________________________________
> I don't know which fire stick you have, but you can set up a playback 
> profile to use standard decoding for mpeg2, which is then able to detect 
> interlaced content. (see 
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Android#Amazon_Fire_TV_Stick_.28not_4K.29 )

Not a stick. Old (first or second gen) Fire TV box. Little black box, 
around 12cm square and 1cm high. I did use that set up you linked to, 
other than the deinterlacer setting, but these recordings are h264.

Cheers,
	Paul.