storing your audio media as, say FLAC, and getting the media server to transcode to MP3 as it streams the track)? Reply is, if it is a MP3 converted from another format, then the converted MP3 cannot be used on this TVĪre you using on-the-fly transcoding (i.e.
As you move through Amazon Fire, to Android, to Linux, you get further from that walled garden approach, and further from the ‘sell you stuff’ purpose. Things like Roku are ‘walled gardens’, and their real purpose is to sell you services. Corporations will only fix bugs if there’s a financial incentive to do so. The other thing to bear in mind is that Kodi (and a huge array of Android apps) is free the thing you may have missed with your point about ‘corporate funding’ is that open-source software effectively has no financial limit, and bugs are fixed out of pride. Kodi is also available for many platforms (it started out on the XBox). It’s worth pointing out that you can download Kodi, just like any other open source software, so you don’t need to buy a box with it pre-installed. TS files straight from the Humax), but it can access a huge library of Internet media sources, and control PVR dongles to record programmes for you. I use it only to play Humax recordings I have transferred to the M圜loud (needing no format conversion it plays the. It’s a comprehensive and complex media centre, and I’ve barely scratched the surface of what it can do. It’s good that you got a second recommendation for Kodi.
As I said, it’s just like a big-screen Android tablet, and will run just about any app you can find on the play store. It can run the BubbleUPnP Server, which allows me to use the BubbleUPnP media player app remotely.īeing a plain-vanilla Android, it can run whatever media, games, browse, email, social media, catch-up TV, etc apps that are available for it.įor media, I use Kodi, BubbleUPnP or VLC.
It has USB ports that will power a small USB HDD, and, if I rooted the Android, I could run a samba file server, and replace the M圜loud… (Kodi will act as a media server) Since my TV also has optical spdif output, my digital audio is routed via HDMI, then spdif to my home theatre amp. Mine has an optical spdif output, too, so I can send digital audio streams to an optical DAC, or via HDMI to the TV. If I need to do a lot of typing, I can swap that for a keyboard. I connect a cheap optical mouse to one of the USB ports on the Android box.
I simply connect the HDMI lead from the Android media box to one of these HDMI inputs, using another input for my Humax PVR. My TV has multiple HDMI inputs: most large TVs do.
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