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including VLC, we could only ever play back the stream with the MX Player). From now on you can simply tap on any 12 13 14 15 TV icon on the screen. IPTV will then launch automatically with a link to the receiver’s IP address. Tap on this link and the stream will open fully automatically in the MX Player after a few seconds of data buffering. A word of caution: In case the video freezes at times or does not play back smoothly the hardware decoder might be to blame in case it cannot properly handle MPEG streams. If this happens you might want to turn off hardware decoding in the MX Player and try software decoding. Even though you might expect quite the contrary, you should then be able to enjoy smooth and high-quality video performance. How come? The MX Player comes with very good Codecs on the software side and many cur- 12. If MX Player is not started automatically by the IPTV app, then you need to configure the correct streaming player within the IPTV app. Go to settings and touch the “Streaming player” option. 13. From the list select “MX Player”. Naturally you can try out the other installed players. Anyway, we had the best results with MX Player. 14. To zap, just touch the back symbol or press the back button, depending on your Android device. Notice that the Android menu bar appears due to the screen shot functionality used by us to grab the pictures. In normal TV play, the image fills the whole screen. If you touch the screen, you will see MX Player’s menu. 15. Of course you can access both MX Player and IPTV as any other app from the Android user interface. They are fully autonomous apps – we just did not use them like that for this application. 66 TELE-audiovision International — The World‘s Largest Digital TV Trade Magazine — 05-06/2013 — www.TELE-audiovision.com rent smartphones and tablets feature processors that are clocked at 1 GHz or above, so that the processing power of those devices is astonishing. In our tests we were even able to play back HD streams flawlessly. Another surprising observation we made during the test was that we never experienced any dropouts, even though our smartphone or tablet was only connected via WiFi to our local network. This is one of the benefits of UNI- CAST (see our feature series on ‘Television from the Internet’ for more details on IPTV, multicast, unicast, etc.): As the stream is only passed on to a single receiver valuable bandwidth is used extremely economically. The AZBox ME/MiniMe in turn also only streams out a single channel, which means a reasonably modern WiFi setup should provide enough bandwidth. Still, all that glitters is not gold: The AZBox is only able to stream to one device at a time and the channel that is streamed is the same that is also sent to the TV panel. In addition, the receiver will automatically activate the time-shift buffer. All things considered, however, it could still make sense to set up a dedicated AZBox for each member of the family. An ever better solution could be to use an AZBox ME acting as a central PVR server and feeding into individual AZBox MiniMe clients for each family member. This way each individual can decide for themselves whether they want to watch the selected channel on the TV, smartphone or tablet. Funnily enough, we were caught more than once choosing our tablet over the TV. What’s more, these days TV panels grow larger and larger and if you want to go for a smaller size TV a better option might even be to get an AZBox MiniMe plus an Android tablet instead of a small LCD panel. So times they are a changing, and IPTV will gain momentum – at least for private use at home.
AZBox SECRETS OVERVIEW AZBox ME Receiver Software Revealing the Secrets of the AZBox ME Super Box Part 1: Blindscan Read Full Report www.TELE-audiovision.com /12/05/azbox-me Part 2: Multimedia Read Full Report www.TELE-audiovision.com /12/07/azbox-me Part 3: Plugin- Installation Read Full Report www.TELE-audiovision.com /12/09/azbox-me Part 4: Firmware Read Full Report www.TELE-audiovision.com /13/03/azbox-me Part 5: IPTV Read Full Report www.TELE-audiovision.com /13/05/azbox-me 68 TELE-audiovision International — The World‘s Largest Digital TV Trade Magazine — 05-06/2013 — www.TELE-audiovision.com www.TELE-audiovision.com — 05-06/2013 — TELE-audiovision International — 全球发行量最大的数字电视杂志 69
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