[mythtv-users] Amazon Fire Stick 4K on sale for half price

[John Pilkington]

On 24/11/2019 19:27, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> On 24/11/2019 17:40, Peter Bennett wrote:
>> The fire stick 4K works just as well as the shield as far as I can 
>> tell. See the notes in the wiki on setting up mythfrontend for 
>> android, there are some specific things to do for fire4k.
> 
> Does that mean you get perfect glitch free silky smooth 1080i50 (or 
> 1080i60 - depending on where you are based) playback?

In my experience, using Peter's builds, the 'i' is the problem.  The 
leanfront's video is liable to freeze on it, or not play at all.  Some 
programmes in the UK appear to mix i and p.  The MythTV Frontend build 
can do this very well, using software decoding, but its 4 cores 
sometimes struggle to keep up.  It does offer access to lots of other 
stuff too, and that seems to play flawlessly.  You may, or may not, 
think that that is a good thing.  I bought mine a year ago and it has 
been updated online, but I suppose current models might not be identical.

John P