[haikuginger]

MPEG2 and VC-1 are the gotchas for me, since at least 10% of my blu ray library is VC-1 and live-tv backends in the US are still pretty much MPEG2 exclusive until Silicondust finally releases that h264 transcoding tuner

Have people tested MPEG2 playback yet? I thought I saw some positive reports last week, but now I can't seem to find any. I guess its largely moot for me anyway until Gotham gets sorted out, and even then I'd be curious to see how an external player like MXPlayer handles the transcoding, since on the Ouya I had better luck with that than the default player ( I don't remember what version of XBMC I was using at the time though).

One poster much earlier in the thread had success in using the FireTV to play back live TV, in the form of a ~20ish Mbps 1080i MPEG-2 stream.