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Android HDMI Grabber / Scaler
There are different android tv (not android TV) setop boxes available which provide an HDMI Input for PVR purposes. With little modifcation these boxes can not only be used to capture HDMI signals to an USB stick but also pipe the output into an e.g. an ffmpeg process. The HDMI signal feed into the input is also available on an HDMI output with nearly no latency. As the output is done by the android system it is scalled to the desired resolution and also 'seamless'. This makes the boxes also a very cheap scaler / seamless adapter.
Devices / Chipsets
There are boxes from different vendors with different chipsets available. Some boxes need extra software / modification for streaming
- MSTAR MSO9180D1R
- Tronsmart Pavo M9 (seems to be out of production, sometimes devices are still available e.g. at aliexpress)
- Zido X9 vendor page (not tested yet)
- Realtek RTD1295DD
- Zidoo X8 and X9S (currently available on e.g. amazon. We don't have this devices so far but are reported to work)
- mele v9 4k (not tested yet)
- beelink sea i (not tested yet)
- eweat r9 plus (not tested yet)
- LAKE I Home Cloud TV (not tested yet)
- Xnano x5 (not tested yet)
- Armlogic
- Fernsehfee 3.0 (currently under evaluation)