I see that this exchange was off-list. Reposting. Again!
My comments below relate to the firestick with mythtv. As I said
earlier, it also offers lots of apps to connect to other services.
Enjoy/Beware.
On 07/07/2020 17:02, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> On 07/07/2020 16:54, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 07/07/2020 16:20, TimP wrote:
>>> On 2020-07-07 16:13, Adam Skinner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi List,
>>>> I've got a fairly good myth setup in multiple rooms with some intel
>>>> NUCs. All working pretty well.
>>>> I want to add a brand new TV for a kids bedroom and am looking at
>>>> recent smart TVs for sale in the UK. Theres android , tizen , webOS
>>>> and whole host of other smart OS's. Minefield for the uneducated.
>>>> The kid wants youtube and some other net apps - but access to
>>>> MythTVs recordings / videos would be welcome. UPNP I guess is the
>>>> (bad) default option. UPNP is bad as it doesn't sort well , takes a
>>>> long time , doesn't seek and is prone to crashing.
>>>> The Wife wants ITV Hub - but that doesn't seem to work on most
>>>> things and if it does I wouldn't trust ITV to not remove it in a few
>>>> months.
>>>> If anyone has any experience of Smart TVs working with MythTV -
>>>> please could you post a reply?
>>>
>>> Our Sony became dumb a while ago, BBC IPlayer was the first to go
>>> then gradually others. I would go for a monitor and soundbar with an
>>> nvidia shield. You can always replace the shield with the latest
>>> gadget when it goes stale.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Tim.
>>
>> A dumb tv and an Amazon FireTVstick 4k might be worth a look, although
>> the remote has few buttons. Lots of apps. Has mythfrontend and
>> 'leanfront', also for mythtv, which can give excellent playback but
>> struggles with the formats of much UK tv. I suspect it isn't what
>> you want, but as an Amazon marketing tool it's cheap and support might
>> last longer than some other options.
>
> Off topic I realise, but seemed a good chance to ask: do you know what
> is the situation with frame-rate matching on the latest FireTV Stick 4K?
> I have an old Fire TV box and I'm wondering whether that aspect has
> improved. I have to perform strange contortions with the remote to get
> 24fps from a hidden menu.
>
> Paul.
> .
When I switch ny tv to the FireTVstick 4k's hdmi input, it says it's
1080p 60 Hz. I'm using 'leanfront'. I have the device Settings/Display
and Sound/Display/Match Original Frame Rate ON with Video Resolution at
Auto. Playback of pure 1080p content looks good to me, but most DVB-T2
content can switch between p and i 'at random' and may freeze. mpeg2
often pauses at around 1 s intervals, which might be a frame rate
problem. The menu info says that 'supported apps' will use the native
content frame rate.
At present I can't use the stick's standard mythfrontend because Peter's
current build is for 31-fixes and Master has has schema updates;
previously playback didn't fail but tended to judder during panning
shots. I don't know if that's a frame-rate thing. It's much the same
with linux nVidia nvdec playback. DLNA is smoother, and leanfront with
appropriate content.
Definite maybe.
John P
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