Nexus player with custom ROM vs Amazon fire TV.

[Crowland]

Please can any one tell me which is best.
I'm looking for compatible with kodi, all 4, ITV player, BBC iplayer, 5 on demand, now TV and marvel future fight from the play store.

 

[scottfree1]

Gave a quick look using lolirock rom not the stock rom, found that only marvel future fight is marked incompatible, but did not find "all 4" or "now tv" at all searching the play store, kodi works great (I've run 15 and now run 16 beta) and all the add-ons I've tried work fine.

I mostly use it with kodi to stream movies from my nas, I use a 1gb usb eth. adapter witch gets 20mbs download vs 10mbs with 10/100 usb eth. and 5 mbs for the 5ghz wireless.

As far as fire tv, I almost went that way (until I found the nexus for $40 the same $$ as the way weaker hardware in the fire stick) and my deal breaker apparently there or no 3rd party roms for fire, so if like me and you hate the nexus interface you can dump it for a stock android, myself I've never NOT gone 3rd party roms for my phone/tablet ect and not having that option is a deal killer 4 me..

 

[Crowland]

Thank you for you info. Is it true that 1080p movies buffer with kodi ?

 

[scottfree1]

I haven't had any buffering issues at all with kodi, but I pre-encode all my movies to a very vanilla mid-quality files that are compatible with all my various devices (dish network hopper which has a dnla client built in, a couple samsung blue-rays, the nexus and a cheapo Chinese android stick).

It took my a long time and I ran though pretty much EVERY codec combo and finally settled on this, it takes anything in the dir an dumps it out to a mkv container, mpeg2/ac3 2000k bit rate which runs on all my devices, most people use h.264 but with the exact same settings using h.264 the vid pixelates like crazy where as mpeg2 is perfect..

(bat file in same dir as ffmpeg)
for %%a in ("F:\Vidtmp\in\*.*") do ffmpeg -i "%%a" -vcodec mpeg2video -b:v 2000000 -r 23.976 -f matroska -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -acodec ac3 -ab 128k -ar 44100 -ac 2 "F:\Vidtmp\OUT\%%~na.mkv"

 

[Crowland]

Sounds great and way over my head , I just want to stream. Thank you for your help

 

[scottfree1]

Well steamin ain't easy, and when yo say "stream" are using local files that you've downloaded or online content? The online stuff is so unreliable (genesis is the best of not very good that I've found) personally I download my stuff into the "in" directory, click the a batch file and it transcodes everything in the dir. I'm up to 550 movies in my library, and have reached the end of the internet, can't find anything else I want to see..

 

[Crowland]

I would like to stream online content at the moment I have total revolution Mk1 all addons work fine. Just the android firmware has not been updated in a year. I do want the android 3rd party app. UK now TV and wss.

The specs is.
Android 4.4 Kitkat
Kodi 15.2
Blu-Ray ISO and 4K video playback
4K video output up to 30 fps supported
2.4Ghz Wi-Fi
CPU: ARM CORTEX-A9 QUAD-CORE
GPU MALI-450 OCTO-CORE
DRAM 2GB DDR3
FLASH MEMORY 8 GB
MicroSD Slot – 32gb card max
Dimensions: 15 x 11.5 x 2.5
Weight: 200g

 

[scottfree1]

My generic android stick is specs almost exactly the same, my issue with it is ****e wifi speed, go to testmy.net and see what speed your wifi runs at..

this is the nexus 5ghz wifi

nexus with 1gb usb eth..

These speeds are 5x to 10x faster than what I was getting from the built in wifi on my generic android tv stick..