[mythtv-users] MythTV Android Frontend is now available in the Google Play Market

[Larry K]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Yianni Vidalis <yiannividalis at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> ________________________________
> > Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 22:26:02 -0400
> > From: vendion at gmail.com
> > To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Android Frontend is now available in
> > the Google Play Market
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Larry K
> > <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com<mailto:lunchtimelarry at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > I am having trouble streaming video with this app.  I'm on myth 0.25.2
> > and Android 2.3.4.
> >
> > I can navigate to my recordings and see the list.  Once I select the
> > recording, it takes maybe 20 seconds to prompt me for the app to use,
> > at which point I select MX Player.  Then it takes another couple of
> > seconds and I see the first 1/2 second of the recording.  Then it stops
> > and the screen goes white.   When I check the backend I see a transcode
> > job still running, using 245% of a quad core cpu.  If I wait awhile,
> > then I am again prompted for the app to launch for the recording.
> >   Eventually, it fails, and the transcode job is removed from the
> > backend.
> >
> >
> > I am having the same issue with Myth 0.26 and Android 4.1.1 and
> > CyanogenMod 10 (Android JB based).  I get ~1 second playback before it
> > stops and Mythfronted for Android just sits there at a white screen.
> >
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> I had the same problem with MX Player on a HTC Sensation icecream...
>
> I solved it by unselecting the "Use H/W decoder" (only the first box)
> under Settings/Decoder. Now recordings stream ok. AND, there is a "HW" on
> the app top, which I think means it uses h/w decoding(!).
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> Hmmm.  I found that I needed to ENABLE all the h/w decoding settings in
the MX Player to get mine to work.
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