[ixian]

lack of deinterlacing and other limitations of android.

So, no deinterlacing is inherent to Android? I take it then that playback of 1080i TV recordings will always be poor? I really had high hopes for this box, but will have to return it if this is the case.

So deinterlacing has been mentioned a few times in this thread but this is the first I heard someone say "lack of deinterlacing and other limitations of android".

Using XBMC on my Galaxy Note 3 I can deinterlace video, so I would have to assume that the statement is incorrect.

In Gotham the deinterlacing options are grayed out on my AFTV. I use XBMC and NPVR for all of my live TV viewing since I use an antenna. I'd hope that this would be enabled in a future version and I've been holding out. I have not tried the latest nightly yet but I will tonight just to be sure the issue still exists.

Dewayne

On my FTV running Gotham RC1 I can access deinterlacing settings from the video menu while Live TV is playing. I can set it to auto, on, off, along with associated options.

The picture looks very good - as good as any other videos - but I'm using NPVR with two Colossus capture cards hooked up to my cable boxes and the Colossus output h.264, not MPEG-2. From looking at Codecinfo it appears it's being decoded in hardware. I don't have any MPEG-2 videos to test but I'll see if I can dig one up if you want to compare notes.

If you are sending it an MPEG-2 stream see if you can access the deinterlace options directly from the video menu when it's playing and see what happens.

Lack of 24p support is really the only big knock against the AFTV for me, at least as far as my "main" XBMC box goes. Anyone who doesn't think it matters I invite to watch a true 24p source (BD rips are good for this) and notice the slight stuttering that occurs, particularly for fast-panning scenes. Avatar is a good movie to test this on if you have a decent encode. And of course lack of refresh change matters for people outside the US, or people in the US who watch a lot of overseas content (BBC shows and the like).

Not a deal killer but it's unfortunate because everything else about this device and it's price is really attractive. I don't know if 24p playback is something Amazon can add in a firmware update.