2015-12-09, 12:42
(2015-12-06, 12:21)noggin Wrote:(2015-12-06, 06:27)Stevio Wrote: An old PC's not a solution (more a fire hazard) but it means more abandoning android and getting an atom PC if any come with HDMI 2a at least, but the Android would do h265 10 bit.
Do you live in a region with very bad power distribution? I'm wondering why you believe a PC to be a specific fire hazard? Why is it more of a hazard than an ADSL modem/router, cable modem etc., or an Android TV box?
You can run a TV Headend backend on a low-power ARM platform should you wish, or a NAS device.
I suspect the biggest fire hazard is likely to be a no-name Chinese PSU used to power a DC device. Like a no-name Android box.
Wild life (little geckos are big panel killers and the cocjrisches and bugs are like plagues in the tropics)! But seriously, I agree about the android box power adaptors, they worry me. But PC's are big noisy hot things with lits of electricity, leaving themnoj 365 days a year with all the fluff and wild life is not desirable. Home servers occasionally catch fire and this thing will be in old chipboard cabinet.
If they can get Linux working in parallel to a shield I can run the USB sticks on Linux siftwate in.the background and read the files in Kodi. If only we had a android that allowed the Linux to be windowed. There are alternative OS versions of android that support multiple apps in windows.
So if they manage to do this (hopefully with full nvidia accelerated hardware support enabled) then I can buy a Shield TV and use that.
Anyway, I picked up a LG 3D bluray 500GB twin tuner recorder for around $29 new last week. Good discount compared to the list price at introduction of $499, but the TV image looks like a $29 TV box, and the smart TV apps are hardly there etc. The last DVD box I owned I returned, but at $29, I think I'll keep it