(2014-06-02, 18:55)navigates Wrote: Thanks for the reply and sorry for writing back late.
With a sftp server do the trick with rewind forward etc? I'm thinking of
www.coreftp.com/server/

Are there any other free recommended?

(2014-05-20, 19:07)jobespierre Wrote: In my experience, i have no problem with mediacodec and libstagefright both turned on, everything plays. My first question is anyone could tell me the difference between the two and what turning them on actually does?

(2014-04-11, 10:53)Enesce Wrote: Can anyone report on the playback quality of 10-bit (hi10p) encoded mkv files? Would love to know if the software processor on the Fire TV is strong enough to do 10-bit videos without much pixelation.

(2014-06-03, 09:32)watchgintama Wrote:

(2014-04-11, 10:53)Enesce Wrote: Can anyone report on the playback quality of 10-bit (hi10p) encoded mkv files? Would love to know if the software processor on the Fire TV is strong enough to do 10-bit videos without much pixelation.

I would like to know this as well. I have a lot of 10bit anime and would purchase if it could play.

(2014-06-03, 09:47)Ned Scott Wrote:

(2014-06-03, 09:32)watchgintama Wrote:

(2014-04-11, 10:53)Enesce Wrote: Can anyone report on the playback quality of 10-bit (hi10p) encoded mkv files? Would love to know if the software processor on the Fire TV is strong enough to do 10-bit videos without much pixelation.

I would like to know this as well. I have a lot of 10bit anime and would purchase if it could play.

Highly doubtful. I would be surprised if it were able to.

(2014-06-03, 09:58)watchgintama Wrote:

(2014-06-03, 09:47)Ned Scott Wrote:

(2014-06-03, 09:32)watchgintama Wrote: I would like to know this as well. I have a lot of 10bit anime and would purchase if it could play.

Highly doubtful. I would be surprised if it were able to.

That's a shame. None of the android boxes support 10bit. I guess I'll have to go with intel.

(2014-06-03, 09:17)wunderdrug Wrote:

(2014-05-20, 19:07)jobespierre Wrote: In my experience, i have no problem with mediacodec and libstagefright both turned on, everything plays. My first question is anyone could tell me the difference between the two and what turning them on actually does?

I guess no one answered this question, so I guess I'll take a stab at it.
I did a little bit of research and this is what I found:

Both are APIs to access hardware acceleration on Android devices
(which is what Fire TV basically is).

Before Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), there was no official API for hardware
video decoding. So, libstagefright was created as an unofficial hack to
allow for hardware acceleration on Android devices using private APIs.

As of Android 4.1 and above Android added official hardware video
acceleration to the public API. This is known as mediacodec, and XBMC
had added support for this. Now, since Fire OS 3.0 (which is what
AFTV runs) is based on Android 4.2.2, it gains support for mediacodec.

Only one API will get used. If you have both selected, mediacodec
is used (unless the version of Android does not support it, then it uses
libstagefright -- but this does not really apply to the Fire TV). If you
do not have mediacodec selected, you are forcing it to use libstagefright.
If you have neither selected, it's equivalent to not running any hardware
acceleration at all (equivalent to disabling the feature by selecting
"Software" as the "Decoding method").

Hopefully what I summarized is correct, but I'm sure someone will
correct me if not.

References:
http://babylon.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=168268&page=99
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_OS
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=180872

(2014-06-03, 07:13)Harve19 Wrote: , Youtube will load, but once I try to play a video, the program closes. It's no biggie, but I was just wondering if anyone else has seen this issue?

(2014-06-03, 15:26)indigest Wrote: I have been playing with a Fire TV for about a week, but I'm not satisfied with the software decoding of MPEG-2. The device is most likely getting returned unless I can figure something out. I've tried Gotham 13.0, 13.1 RC1, and SPMC 12.4.2. They all have provided a similar experience for me in terms of video decoding.

I have tried MPEG-2 with 1080i and 720p with all combinations of libstagefright, MediaCodec, software decoding, and multithreading. The best one is libstagefright only, but I'm still not satisfied with it. It seems that the CPU cannot keep up with high bitrate (>12Mbps) streams and I get dropped frames. Lower bitrate streams are also unacceptable as they appear slightly jerky and they are not de-interlaced (where applicable). 480p MPEG-2 videos look perfect, but I don't care about those. H.264 videos also look perfect, but most of my content is MPEG-2.

I have enabled buffermode=1 and 100MB buffer in my advancedsettings.xml and have confirmed that the dropped frames are not occurring due to network congestion.

I'm comparing the video quality to my Nexus 4 or a PC with hardware acceleration for MPEG-2. On those devices, the MPEG-2 decoding is excellent.

I'm disappointed because Fire TV seems like a perfect device for me with the exception of lack of hardware acceleration for MPEG-2. Now, I'm planning to watch closely what happens with the Android TV announcement at the end of this month.

(2014-06-03, 17:12)z31fanatic Wrote:

(2014-06-03, 07:13)Harve19 Wrote: , Youtube will load, but once I try to play a video, the program closes. It's no biggie, but I was just wondering if anyone else has seen this issue?

Yes, it has happened many times to me. I have uninstalled and installed the youtube app many times and it still does it most of the time. I think the app is broken on the FTV.