[Richie]

It plays just fine on my PC with XBMC and my BR player

FireTV doesn't support VC-1 and Mpeg2 hardware decoding, so I was leaning towards that being an issue. The only stuttering/lag problems I've had is playing a VC-1 rip and 10bit rips.

I'm pretty sure the Fire TV does support MPEG2 decoding in hardware. Using libstagefright (stf-mpeg2 decoder), the CPU usage is no higher than H.264 decoding (stf-h264). (This has been discussed in this forum before).

I don't know why the Wiki still claims it doesn't -- as it's probably scaring people off from buying it that want to stream Live TV.

I've got no Mpeg2 to test with, so only noted that as that's what the Wiki said, but I've definitely tried VC-1 and it's a no go. I believe that there are standards such as Mpeg3 that are rolled into Mpeg2 that aren't supported, so maybe that's why it's in the wiki, it supports the normal Mpeg2 codec, but not the full suite of codecs rolled into the Mpeg2 standard?

I dont know the exact sellers name but it was sent from London next day and cost me £110 about 2months ago. Everything works fine except amazon video content and netflix. Games work great, Plex works and more importantly XBMC is very good but I have to go through all the menus and enter pin to get to it as I dont want other users accidently paying for stuff!

I'm in Australia and usually use a freight forwarder for stuff from Amazon that they won't ship direct. It was going to cost me AU$165 to get it from Amazon plus shipping (without prime), I bought one off eBay for AU$130 including shipping, so worked out much cheaper. I dare say when they are released in hte UK,it'll be a 20-30% premium on the US$99 price.