NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner Amazon Fire TV Stick... My thoughts. XBMC, and other stuff... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=139145 2015-05-26T03:12:10 -05.00 spoonman 14 Originally posted by: Ozzy_98

I just ordered two more, to go with that $180 40" TV tiger direct had up today, so that brings the total to 2 FireTVs and 3 sticks.

I'm running a modified confluence skin that allows android apps too, so that's nice being able to get them all in one device, some of the fireTV video players (Like Netflix and hulu) work so much better than the Kodi ones. Nice. I'm waiting for the Sticks to drop down to $19.99 so I can get another for our outside monitor. I just wish there was an extra USB port on the Stick for adding extra storage. 5 GB runs out rather quickly.

It's a nice setup with Kodi and emulators. Google Chrome also works well with Logitech mouse and keyboard on the Fire TV.
I also recommend installing Llama and linking a Fire TV app with Kodi. It makes it much nicer to launch Kodi via an icon on at the top of the recently accessed apps. (We use Tubi since its a tub of popcorn and a free so) 
I have one linked to MAME as well.

A friend of mine designed an API to interface Kodi on the Fire TV with the Amazon Echo so, for example, he can say, "Alexa, play Star Wars Episode 4" and it will automatically launch it. Pretty cool stuff.


]]> Amazon Fire TV Stick... My thoughts. XBMC, and other stuff... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=139145 2015-05-25T19:28:12 -05.00 spoonman 14
I'm running a modified confluence skin that allows android apps too, so that's nice being able to get them all in one device, some of the fireTV video players (Like Netflix and hulu) work so much better than the Kodi ones. ]]> Amazon Fire TV Stick... My thoughts. XBMC, and other stuff... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=139145 2015-05-24T20:51:54 -05.00 spoonman 14 Originally posted by: Jobber8742

Originally posted by: spoonman

Originally posted by: Ozzy_98

I've been using PIs with openelec\XBMC on them lately (As in, got my first one last Wednesday, second one on Friday), I just set it up with a central MySQL server so if I start a show in one room, I can resume in another.

If you have a computer always running, you can set up a share on it, and mount it as a source in XBMC\Kodi and use something like rom collection browser to launch them.

Yeah, that's where media players like this excel. We have our entire DVD collection on a server, along with about 200 BluRay 1080p rips, and tons of TV shows.
I bought two more 4 TB hdds during the Black Friday sale for $79 each bringing us up to 16 TB of space. We should be good for a while.

I love how well Kodi is running on the Fire Stick. It's extremely fast and the dual MIMO WiFi (N) keeps 1080p content flowing without any buffering or loss of quality.

Kodi rocks.



 
You say it handles 1080 well, but does it handle uncompressed Blu-Rays at all? I haven't found anything that really handles them well besides PCs. I use MediaBrowser for my media server. I have about 50TB worth of stuff on there. I have no interest in downcoverting anything though. I ordered one of these during the $19 Amazon special. Kind of bummed you were able to get one from Best Buy and I still haven't got mine from Amazon themselves.

 
Sorry to bump an old post, but I just saw a bookmark to this and realized  never answered your question.
So to answer it, no, I doubt it could decode an uncompressed Blu-Ray image, but even if it could it would surely be bottlenecked from even the fastest Wi-Fi connection.

You have 50TB of media? How many drives does that work out to be?!
I thought owning 4 3TB drives was excessive.
I'm pretty happy with high bitrate video (8k-10kbps) 1080p AC3 6 channel audio BRips.
              
I also wanted to mention, for those who don't know, Amazon has released an update for the Fire TV (not the TV Stick)
which lets you use an external USB memory stick, USB hub, as well as USB mice and keyboards.
This makes it perfect for emulators now that you dont have to worry about using up all of the 5GB of internal storage.

I bought a 64GB USB stick for only $15 and an Amazon Essentials 5 port hub for $4 and they work great.


]]> Amazon Fire TV Stick... My thoughts. XBMC, and other stuff... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=139145 2014-12-10T20:17:13 -05.00 spoonman 14 Amazon Fire TV Stick... My thoughts. XBMC, and other stuff... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=139145 2014-12-10T20:06:13 -05.00 spoonman 14
No modding necessary. It's easy to sideload apps onto the Amazon Fire Stick (or Fire TV)

Sideload apps onto the Fire Stick:
1. Go to settings, Developer Options, Turn ON ADB Debugging, Turn on Allow Apps from Unknown Sources.
2. Go to settings, write down the IP address of the Fire Stick (192.168.1.xx)
3. Install adbfw114 on your PC or Mac
4. Just start up ADBFW and install the various APK files.
5. To run them go to Settings, Applications, Manage Installed Apps and run them**.

** There is a more advanced way to make a shortcut on the main Amazon Fire TV carousel by installing Llama and making a donar app load Kodi (or whatever you chose). I have "TubiTV" launch Kodi since it's icon looks like a TV.

The best free Android emulators are by Robert Broglia Here (all are 100% compatible with the Fire Stick/TV)
Media Center: Kodi / XMBC release for Android (kodi-14.0-Helix_rc3-armeabi-v7a) here

6. To get roms onto your Fire Stick you can use ES File Explorer to access your internal Fire Stick storage. Just install it using ADBFW and once it's running have it scan for a shared networked drive with your roms.
Then copy and paste to a roms dir. ]]> Amazon Fire TV Stick... My thoughts. XBMC, and other stuff... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=139145 2014-12-10T01:30:32 -05.00 spoonman 14 Originally posted by: Ozzy_98

Originally posted by: spoonman

Originally posted by: punkr13

Might have to check it out.

Been using the ouya as my xbmc player, pretty simple on that and it has a USB port for keyboard action
That's cool. I nearly bought an Ouya last year. Do you know if it can it handle 1080p MKV vids without frame drops?

That's the only thing keeping the Amazon Fire TV Stick from being the ultimate, tiny, emulation solution, is the lack of external storage. 
I've been adding and testing a bunch of them; NES, GEN, NEO-GEO, 2600, TG-16, SNES, and they work great. Maybe there is a way to add a LAN shortcut and open roms from there. That would solve that problem. 

For $20 I'm very impressed with it. 
 
If you use XBMC and rom collection to launch them you can, that's how I do it on my XBMC devices.  I have a NORCO-4020 case I use for storage to stream everything through the house.



  Oh yeah?, that sounds cool.
So you don't load the game from within the emulators? I have the newest Kodi Release Candidate build.


]]> Amazon Fire TV Stick... My thoughts. XBMC, and other stuff... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=139145 2014-12-06T13:26:17 -05.00 spoonman 14 Originally posted by: spoonman

Originally posted by: punkr13

Might have to check it out.

Been using the ouya as my xbmc player, pretty simple on that and it has a USB port for keyboard action
That's cool. I nearly bought an Ouya last year. Do you know if it can it handle 1080p MKV vids without frame drops?

That's the only thing keeping the Amazon Fire TV Stick from being the ultimate, tiny, emulation solution, is the lack of external storage. 
I've been adding and testing a bunch of them; NES, GEN, NEO-GEO, 2600, TG-16, SNES, and they work great. Maybe there is a way to add a LAN shortcut and open roms from there. That would solve that problem. 

For $20 I'm very impressed with it. 
  If you use XBMC and rom collection to launch them you can, that's how I do it on my XBMC devices.  I have a NORCO-4020 case I use for storage to stream everything through the house.




]]> Amazon Fire TV Stick... My thoughts. XBMC, and other stuff... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=139145 2014-12-06T03:59:39 -05.00 spoonman 14 Originally posted by: punkr13

Might have to check it out.

Been using the ouya as my xbmc player, pretty simple on that and it has a USB port for keyboard action That's cool. I nearly bought an Ouya last year. Do you know if it can it handle 1080p MKV vids without frame drops?

That's the only thing keeping the Amazon Fire TV Stick from being the ultimate, tiny, emulation solution, is the lack of external storage. 
I've been adding and testing a bunch of them; NES, GEN, NEO-GEO, 2600, TG-16, SNES, and they work great. Maybe there is a way to add a LAN shortcut and open roms from there. That would solve that problem. 

For $20 I'm very impressed with it. 

]]> Amazon Fire TV Stick... My thoughts. XBMC, and other stuff... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=139145 2014-12-02T19:56:11 -05.00 spoonman 14
Been using the ouya as my xbmc player, pretty simple on that and it has a USB port for keyboard action ]]> Amazon Fire TV Stick... My thoughts. XBMC, and other stuff... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=139145 2014-12-02T19:28:59 -05.00 spoonman 14 Originally posted by: spoonman

Originally posted by: Ozzy_98

I've been using PIs with openelec\XBMC on them lately (As in, got my first one last Wednesday, second one on Friday), I just set it up with a central MySQL server so if I start a show in one room, I can resume in another.

If you have a computer always running, you can set up a share on it, and mount it as a source in XBMC\Kodi and use something like rom collection browser to launch them.

Yeah, that's where media players like this excel. We have our entire DVD collection on a server, along with about 200 BluRay 1080p rips, and tons of TV shows.
I bought two more 4 TB hdds during the Black Friday sale for $79 each bringing us up to 16 TB of space. We should be good for a while.

I love how well Kodi is running on the Fire Stick. It's extremely fast and the dual MIMO WiFi (N) keeps 1080p content flowing without any buffering or loss of quality.

Kodi rocks.



  You say it handles 1080 well, but does it handle uncompressed Blu-Rays at all? I haven't found anything that really handles them well besides PCs. I use MediaBrowser for my media server. I have about 50TB worth of stuff on there. I have no interest in downcoverting anything though. I ordered one of these during the $19 Amazon special. Kind of bummed you were able to get one from Best Buy and I still haven't got mine from Amazon themselves.


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