[mythtv-users] android playback without HLS?

[Daniel Frey]

On Jan 7, 2013 5:53 AM, "Brian J. Murrell" <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
>
> On 13-01-06 10:05 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
> >
> > I believe you have a 9" tablet, from what I got Googling around.
>
> Yep.
>
> > The
> > layout sounds just like mine. Except where you have a list on the left,
> > I have banners (for shows that MythTV has banners for.)
>
> OK.
>
> > In the upper right, you should have some icons.
>
> Right.  It was pressing one/some of those before that I got an NPE, so
> I've mostly avoided pressing those any more.
>
> > And I have no idea what
> > their proper names are, but they look like a circle with arrows
(Refresh),
> > an eyeball (Play), a paper airplane (Play the recording on the frontend)
> > and the vertical ellipses (Help.)
>
> Ahhhh!  It was the eyeball to play bit that I was missing.  Eureaka!  I
> have playback.  Yikes, at 196% of CPU (2 cores).  I guess this is going
> to be why I was asking about non-HLS (i.e. transcoded) playback.
>
> > Pressing the eyeball should start transcoding on the backend and then
> > start the external viewer (or give you a choice if you have more than
> > one.) I'm using Dice Player currently.
>
> Indeed, it does.
>
> > The whitespace is where the coverart would go. So that begs yet another
> > question, do you have metadata with your MythTV Watch Recordings screen?
>
> No.  I don't use a coverart theme on my frontends.  I use Mythcentre.
>
> > Do you have storage groups setup for Banners, Coverart and Fanart?
>
> Nope.  Didn't see any point given that I don't use FE themes that would
> use it.
>
> > Dan gets to answer this one. I don't see these messages.
>
> So are show thumbnails not used on the Android frontend at all then?  I
> wonder why they are being fetched constantly then.  Even this morning, 8
> hours after I reported them last night, they are still being reported as
> being fetched, on my BE and yet not a single episode (that I have found,
> of course I did not check all 500 of them) has a thumbnail.
>
> > Unfortunately, none of the above gets any closer to explaining why
you're
> > getting the NPEs.
>
> Since I have been unable to reproduce them, let's treat them as a
> "startup" red-herring.
>
> Cheers,
> b.
>
>
>
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Brian,
The next release will give you the option to pre-transcode recordings so
they are available immediately and you won't have to wait for startup or
processing to a point before they can be watched.

You, for instance, set a few to process before you go to bed. Then they are
available for immediate streaming the next day. And the remain transcoder
until you remove them.

That should hopefully reduce the strain on your backend.

Dan
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