wt0 wrote: > I've already been approached by Amazon to put SB Player on the Fire TV > Stick. Of course with the request they mentioned some problems that need > to be fixed before it can be put on the Fire TV Stick, which is somewhat > nonsensical since SB Player is already accepted for use on the Fire TV > and the Stick is basically the same the thing with less outputs. > > On a side note, considering that SB Player is a pretty niche app, for > Amazon to approach me about it they must be really desperate to get apps > onto the Stick.
I recently got a Fire TV and SB Player was one of the first apps I put on it. Very useful, and it is a perfect match for these 'media streamer box' type of devices. It would also be great for the stick, can't see why they have separate approval processes as the two are practically identical as you say, save some reduced specs on the stick which surely wouldn't be an issue for something like SB Player. One very slight niggle with SB Player is that when it's running, it won't let the FireTV go fully into sleep mode. The Fire TV Screen saver will run but the box never fully goes to sleep. I can understand that you'd want to keep the app running in case someone wanted to start playing music, hence keeping the box from fully sleeping, but it would be nice if there was a menu option to let it go to sleep after 'x' time inactive in the screen saver. It might even be possible to allow it to wake the box from sleep (the bluetooth remote or my FLIRC will wake it so it's possible), though I don't know how that mode is implemented with respect to network traffic. I'm guessing that SB player devices are constantly talking to the server though based on how I see my network lights flicker with my SB3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29669 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98049 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
