[mythtv-users] fire tv as mythtv frontend

[jacek burghardt]

Well for 200 I hope to get fire tv that will be here in few days and I can
run some testing


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:39 PM, HP-mini <blm-ubunet at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 16:46 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Bryan Dagerman <bdagerman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > The XBMC wiki on it says it doesn't do hardware decode of MPEG-2,
> which is
> > > (I think) what recordings from the HDHomeRun are. So if that is the
> case, I
> > > wonder how well it will do playing those recordings.
> >
> > HDHR recordings, like all digital TV recordings in mythtv are whatever
> > the broadcaster sends, so yes in the US/Canada that is mpeg 2. Here it
> > is h264.
> >
> > I think it will handle mpeg2 ok in software, but deinterlacing is
> > definitely an issue.
> >
> > Also of course android seems to be stuck on 60Hz playback, which sucks
> > for 24p movies or PAL countries.
> >
> > I was initially interested in importing one, but my interest has waned
> > over these issues. I'd be more interested in a $169US chromebox, which
> > will run linux, including openelec.
> > _______________________________________________
> nVidia Jetson TK1 ?
> Will be even more money ~US$200 but with proper GPU h/w & driver.
> But it's not shipping yet..
>
>
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