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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] fire tv as mythtv frontend
From: Bryan Dagerman <bdagerman () gmail ! com>
Date: 2014-04-29 23:35:34
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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@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@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@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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<div dir="ltr">I'm interested to find out how your testing goes. I am considering \
getting one to do the same thing.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div \
class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:49 PM, jacek burghardt <span \
dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaceksburghardt@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">jaceksburghardt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Well for 200 I hope to get fire tv that will \
be here in few days and I can run some testing </div><div class="HOEnZb"> <div \
class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 29, \
2014 at 1:39 PM, HP-mini <span dir="ltr"><<a \
href="mailto:blm-ubunet@slingshot.co.nz" \
target="_blank">blm-ubunet@slingshot.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 16:46 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:<br> \
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Bryan Dagerman <<a \
href="mailto:bdagerman@gmail.com" target="_blank">bdagerman@gmail.com</a>> \
wrote:<br> > > The XBMC wiki on it says it doesn't do hardware decode of \
MPEG-2, which is<br> > > (I think) what recordings from the HDHomeRun are. So \
if that is the case, I<br> > > wonder how well it will do playing those \
recordings.<br> ><br>
> HDHR recordings, like all digital TV recordings in mythtv are whatever<br>
> the broadcaster sends, so yes in the US/Canada that is mpeg 2. Here it<br>
> is h264.<br>
><br>
> I think it will handle mpeg2 ok in software, but deinterlacing is<br>
> definitely an issue.<br>
><br>
> Also of course android seems to be stuck on 60Hz playback, which sucks<br>
> for 24p movies or PAL countries.<br>
><br>
> I was initially interested in importing one, but my interest has waned<br>
> over these issues. I'd be more interested in a $169US chromebox, which<br>
> will run linux, including openelec.<br>
> _______________________________________________<br>
</div>nVidia Jetson TK1 ?<br>
Will be even more money ~US$200 but with proper GPU h/w & driver.<br>
But it's not shipping yet..<br>
<div><div><br>
<br>
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