[Q] Fire Stick XBMC, Screen mirroring - Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello,
I first wanted to buy a Raspberry Pi, but I then i noticed the Fire stick. I have a few questions left before I buy it. Will it run kodi (xbmc)? Does it support mkv's (1080p h.264 with ac3 audio) over smb? Is it fast enough to soft decode any not supported codec? Can I mirror my pc screen without miracast to it? Is it capable of running any Android app like firefox and es data explorer? Thanks for your help.

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Hi Guys,
Just like to ask if there is a better DLNA/UPnP android application that can support subtitle when playing on WD TV Live?
I tried bubble, avia, pixel application but it cannot display subtitles when browsing my tablet on WD TV via media server or sending the video on my tablet to WD TV.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there any way to do it? Or is there a better app for this.
Thanks!

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Hello, I thought about buying an amazon fire tv and installing xbmc on it. my interent connection is just too slow for plex, netflixh or every other streaming options.
So, If i would install xbmc, could i play mkv 720p files with it?
Im only looking for a streamer that can play this type of files, I've also considered the WD TV Live but the amzon fire tv have better processor, and i doesn't know if it's pay off
Thanks for the future helpers
iii2 said:
Hello, I thought about buying an amazon fire tv and installing xbmc on it. my interent connection is just too slow for plex, netflixh or every other streaming options.
So, If i would install xbmc, could i play mkv 720p files with it?
Im only looking for a streamer that can play this type of files, I've also considered the WD TV Live but the amzon fire tv have better processor, and i doesn't know if it's pay off
Thanks for the future helpers
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To be honest if your not gonna stream then it's best to get wd live hub with 1tb hard drive in it. I have all my 1080p mkv movies in them and it works great. I also have the amazon fire also but my downloaded movies I keep on the wd.
iii2 said:
Hello, I thought about buying an amazon fire tv and installing xbmc on it. my interent connection is just too slow for plex, netflixh or every other streaming options.
So, If i would install xbmc, could i play mkv 720p files with it?
Im only looking for a streamer that can play this type of files, I've also considered the WD TV Live but the amzon fire tv have better processor, and i doesn't know if it's pay off
Thanks for the future helpers
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The Fire TV does not support playing files from a connected hard drive. Not through any apps, including XBMC. The only way to get the content on your hard drive to play on the Fire TV is to connect the hard drive to a PC and make the files available over the network through a sharing protocol like SMB. Then XBMC will see the files shared on the network and play them.

[Q] 1080i deinterlacing?

Has anyone found a way to deinterlace video in XBMC on the FireTV? I realize that streaming content isn't interlaced and therefore the box really was never intended to play back 1080i content however one of the purposes of my FireTV boxes is to serve as a front end for MythTV which means that Live TV and much of my recorded content (unless I transcode) is interlaced.
I'm don't need any of the real fancy deinterlacing algorithms, something as simple as Bob would be enough. It really doesn't look that bad from my viewing distance but in fast motion scenes it is noticeable. I'm certain the FireTV can handle it, it's just a matter of finding the software to make it happen.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Should probably note that my boxes are rooted.
I am having the same issue. I have an HDHomerun Plus feeding my Win7 box. I have tried XBMC 13.2, Kodi 14, and SPMC 13.4 on my FireTV. I have toggled hardware acceleration, MediaCodec, de-interlacing, etc. Any 1080i broadcast with fast horizontal movement (like football) is awful. I have tried both NextPVR (feeding the NextPVR Client) and Windows Media Center (feeding the WMC Client) on the Fire TV. Same result, which is expected since both are providing the same MPEG-2 1080i content.
My existing setup is an HDHomerun Plus WMC feeding a Ceton Echo box, which deinterlaces 1080i great. I'm trying to migrate off of that so I can have a single device (FireTV) that handles TV, online streaming, local streaming, etc.
I haven't tried this yet, but the HDHomerun Plus can transcode in hardware to x264. I've had it disabled because the Ceton Echo doesn't like x264 much. I'll try it with the FTV and see how it goes...
My FTV is rooted as well, running the latest pre-rooted firmware.
ctaranto said:
I am having the same issue. I have an HDHomerun Plus feeding my Win7 box. I have tried XBMC 13.2, Kodi 14, and SPMC 13.4 on my FireTV. I have toggled hardware acceleration, MediaCodec, de-interlacing, etc. Any 1080i broadcast with fast horizontal movement (like football) is awful. I have tried both NextPVR (feeding the NextPVR Client) and Windows Media Center (feeding the WMC Client) on the Fire TV. Same result, which is expected since both are providing the same MPEG-2 1080i content.
My existing setup is an HDHomerun Plus WMC feeding a Ceton Echo box, which deinterlaces 1080i great. I'm trying to migrate off of that so I can have a single device (FireTV) that handles TV, online streaming, local streaming, etc.
I haven't tried this yet, but the HDHomerun Plus can transcode in hardware to x264. I've had it disabled because the Ceton Echo doesn't like x264 much. I'll try it with the FTV and see how it goes...
My FTV is rooted as well, running the latest pre-rooted firmware.
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Any update on having the HDHR Plus do the transcoding? Considering picking one up if it let's me use the FireTVs as nice Live TV extenders.
Does anyone know if the new aftv2 can handle 1080i content such as live TV from hdhomerun tuners?
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Does anyone know if the new aftv2 can handle 1080i content such as live TV from hdhomerun tuners?
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ive been messing with it lately.. PQ has not been great yet.. ive used both the hdhomerun add-on and server-wmc pvr method via kodi... would rather get 1080i working great from the pvr.. hard to beleive that its 2015 and we cant get de-interlacing right in xbmc/kodi... the old mce 2005 worked better on old ass hardware.. very frustrating
i came on here hoping to find an answer... im thinking maybe i can root and install my own mpeg2 decoder for kodi? who knows
edit: looks like the BOB-inverted works best for me... very usable.. KODI FTW
Any tips or help you can offer on getting this setup right?
I had a 1st Gen Fire TV that worked fine with SPMC 14.x for some interlaced recordings I've made with my Hauppauge HDPVR2, and/or DVD's converted to MKV using VideoRedo..
I've updated to a 2nd Gen Fire TV with Kodi 15.2 (since SPMC stops at 15.0) and none of the interlaced videos I have tried play correctly.
EDIT: Never mind.. this seems to be 2nd gen Fire TV related, as it does it in Kodi and Plex.

[Q] 2nd Gen Fire TV problem with interlaced video playback?

Some of my videos are recorded with my Hauppauge HD PVR and/or my Sony HDR-SR11 camcorder, both of which give me 1080i video files. Playback with my first gen Fire TV and Fire TV Sticks via Kodi and Plex have been fine.
I had added a 2nd gen Fire TV recently, and last night tried to watch a recording (1080i) and the video was all garbled (see if THIS LINK works). It didn't matter if I used Kodi or Plex, it looked the same. I tried tweaking some settings in Kodi around deinterlacing which had no effect. Using VideoRedo to "edit" the video and save, forcing it to re-encode and de-interlace, the output video which is progressive, while 90% of the original size, plays fine on the 2nd Gen Fire TV.
So, is there anyway to overcome this issue on the 2nd gen Fire TV? or am I forced to re-encode all my interlaced video files?

What to do with rooted FTV2?

Havent used my rooted FTV Gen 2 in a while... trying to figure out if I keep or sell. I'm considering getting an Nvidia Shield for Emby/Kodi so not sure if I really need the FTV2
FTV2... Anything cool I can do with it at this point?
-- Emulator to run old-skool video games? Rampage, Galega, Gauntlet, etc? Or just run this on the new FireTV Stick 4k (in living room tv) and NVidia Shield (in home theater)
-- Any hacks to get it to do lossless DTS & Dolby TrueHD pass through over HDMI? (for Emby / Kodi in Home Theater).
thx for the help!

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