[mythtv-users] MythTV Android Frontend 1.10.0 Released

[Eric Smith]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
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>>  The latest version was released this morning.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to all the MythTV users who helped with the testing on
>>>> the 1.0.4 release.
>>>>
>>>> The Release Notes (with a list of changes and bug fixes) are here:
>>>>
>>>>     https://github.com/MythTV-**Clients/MythTV-Android-**
>>>> Frontend/wiki/1.10.0-Release-**Notes<https://github.com/MythTV-Clients/MythTV-Android-Frontend/wiki/1.10.0-Release-Notes>
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>>>> Initial reports show that users running Android releases below Honeycomb
>>>> (3.1) will see a "NoSuchMethodError". The fix has already been
>>>> committed.
>>>> Retesting is in progress.
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>>> I was super excited to see the non-HLS capabilities added, however I
>>> realized now that all of my h264 content is stored as videos rather than
>>> recordings, and my phone doesn't really care for MPEG2.
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>>> Is there any estimate as to when video playback will be added?
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>>> Also, I have several videos that I merged into the recordings database,
>>> to backfill missing episodes;  they play fine from the regular frontend,
>>> but I get mixed results on the android frontend... some media players will
>>> play some files (usually without audio), some players will fail (bs player
>>> always fails), and sometimes a player will work for one 'recording' and not
>>> another.  I wonder if the imported recording file names contain illegal
>>> characters?
>>>
>>> Thanks for all your effort on this!
>>>
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>> Sorry for replying to myself, but I thought I would try other players and
>> stumbled upon VLC for Android (
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc.betav7neon).
>>  Of course it's not available in the US, so I had to download it from
>> http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/ and install it as an untrusted
>> application... but it works great when playing without HLS.
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>> It plays MPEG2 content well, it skips a ton of frames but it keeps audio
>> and video in sync so it's watchable (tried watching Hockey, it was rough
>> but ok) and it starts playing almost instantly.
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>> My only complaints are that there is no ability to skip around in MPEG2
>> video, and it doesn't seem to work with HLS.  Considering that many of the
>> players have the same problems, if I could even get them to play something
>> watchable... I can live with it.
>>
>> Makes me think that VLC might be a good codebase to pull from if the
>> frontend app is going to get a built in player?
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> Joseph.
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> Also in this release, you can now pre-hls transcode your recordings.  In
> doing so, you can kick off a job and let it complete to 100% without
> watching it right then and there.  You can start watching it whenever you
> want so long as at least 2% have completed.  But with the pre-transcoding,
> you can now seek back and forth in the stream.  I am not sure if all
> players support it or not, but I know DicePlayer does and seems to remember
> where you were in the stream as well (not our doing).  That may solve your
> issue, albeit through a bit of a work around.
>
> Dan
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Dan,
Not specifically a MythTV for android question, but is it possible to kick
off HLS as a user job on the backend so that HLS streams are queued ahead
of time and just ready by the time I get to my android front end?
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