[mythtv-users] MythTV Frontend for Android released on Market

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Tue Feb 28 02:48:22 UTC 2012


On 2/27/2012 21:32, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>> On 2/27/2012 12:29, Mike Chinander wrote:
>>> Would it be possible to use an external player?
>> MythTV only supports external players for playback when using MythVideo,
>> and then they are largely useless since they don't support the myth://
>> URIs used by Storage Group content.  Recordings never have, and likely
>> never will, support external players.
> He's talking about the android frontend ...users

That's what I was thinking at first, but were that the case, why would 
anyone want to use an external player in the first place?  Any sensible 
frontend for a mobile device would be written using the necessary APIs 
to access the video decoding hardware.


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