(2015-12-27, 07:24)Brumey Wrote: Hello:
I just killed my Microsoft Media Center and moved to Windows 10. As a result, my Xbox360 has gone into retirement. I have just purchased an Nvidia Shield and hope to load Kodi on my Win 10 box. My goal is to replace media center functionality, specifically live TV and DVR of said live TV.
Questions for those who jumped in earlier than I:
1) Can I play Live OTA TV on the Nvidia Shield with Kodi in the backend using two or more USB tuners?
2) Can I pause live TV using the same?
3) Can I schedule recordings form the Kodi app on the shield?
I have only owned the Shield an hour and have searched for info on my basics needs. Would welcome ANY advice.
My other goals are to use the Shield for Amazon, Netflix, BBC (I know I have a VPN challenge), etc.
Thanks,
Kevin.
Your answer to all three is yes, but you will need to run a PVR back-end on a separate box for full functionality (though for Live TV you could use an HD Homerun without one). The PVR back-end will support your multiple USB tuners (or an HD Homerun networked tuner), recording and playback of recordings and Live TV to your Kodi front-end running on your nVidia stream. I run TV Headend, and there is reasonable ATSC USB support for US OTA HDTV in it I believe (if you are in North American and using an antenna/aerial) If you are in Europe then SAT>IP stuff is also worth a look - which will give you networked satellite support (again you will still need a back-end).
You can use either a small, low-power x86 box running Linux, or a low-power ARM SoC device like an ODroid C1/C1+ (beware kernel support for your specific USB TV tuner, though an HD Homerun should work fine with most things.
You can't run the back-end on the nVidia Shield - you will need another box to handle PVR and Tuner duties. The integration with the TV Headend (or VDR or MythTV) back-ends into the Kodi front-end running on the Shield will be very good though.
AIUI recent Kodi builds for the Shield have re-introduced hardware deinterlacing for both MPEG2 and H264 - though worth checking. At one point the deinterlacing was a Bob in software for some codecs (MPEG2?) - but I think this has change.
As for VPN support - I don't know if it is possible to run a VPN within Android, but it is certainly possible to use some WiFi Access Points with a VPN (either OOB or by reflashing with OpenWRT, DDWRT, Tomato etc.) I've used both OOB and reflash approaches to allow me to remotely connect devices to a VPN when travelling.