[ozkhan1]

I dont feel like reading through this whole thread, just wanted to know how FTV peforms with the PVR component. Does it handle the 1080p mpeg streams from PVR backend fairly well?

I'm pretty sure nearly all OTA broadcasts in the USA are 1080i and not 1080p. Given that, I have 2 AFTVs (in 2 different rooms) running XBMC 13.1, talking to a MythTV backend, fed by an HDHR Plus (with transcoding turned off -- so it's outputting MPEG2) -- and it works like a champ. Live TV, channel changes, PVR recordings, the whole 9 yards -- all work very well.

Just make sure that you turn off MediaCodec and turn on libstagefright -- this will give you hardware decoding of the MPEG2 stream (yes, XBMC on AFTV appears to properly hardware decode MPEG2 -- contrary to what the Wiki says). And make sure your network can handle the ~2 MB/s you need to stream 1080i MPEG2.

Unfortunately, libstagefright doesn't offer deinterlacing -- so you may see some of that. I still haven't been able to get my setup to work properly with H.264 output from the HDHR, but that's another story.

Thanks for the response and yes, you are correct, I should have written 1080i.

How do I turn off MediaCodec and turn on Libstagefright? Is this somewhere in the FTV XBMC settings?

What are the effects of deinterlacing not being available? Does that affect the picture quality?