[mythtv-users] fire tv as mythtv frontend

Tom Bongiorno tbjr at bongohut.com
Thu May 15 15:53:17 UTC 2014


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Bryan Dagerman <bdagerman at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I'm interested to find out how your testing goes. I am considering
>>> getting one to do the same thing.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:49 PM, jacek burghardt <
>>> jaceksburghardt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>> It looks like the FireTV's have 2GB of RAM, which should be enough to run
>> a proper front end, no? I realize that it's an ARM processor which would
>> require a bit more development, but are the specs good enough for a real
>> $99 FE? Even if it's limited to H.264 only, I'm fine with getting one of
>> the new HDHRs that outputs H.264 natively or running some ffmpeg magic to
>> transcode all my recordings in realtime.
>>
>
> I would like to buy the long rumored HDHR Prime that does H.264
> conversion.  But, it's not clear when that will actually ship.
>
> I'm not crazy about software transcoding content, with all the compute
> overhead and delay.  My backend is not terribly fast (Core2Duo) especially
> when considering my HDHR often records multiple programs simultaneously.
>  Worst case is 3x HD sports programs.
>
> Is the FireTV hardware incapable of MPEG2?  Or, is it a licensing
> restriction which could be enabled with an extra cost?
>
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I think that the new six tuner HDHR Prime demoed at CES in January is the
only new model that will NOT include a H.264 transcoder.  Or, did I miss
something?

-Tom
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