[mythtv-users] MythTV Player 1.1.9 available to all in the Google Play Store

[Eric Sharkey]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Frank Phillips <frankalso at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > This version completely revamps the Watch Videos section of the app.
>> > There
>> > are now tabs for Movies and TV Series.  TV Series also allows you to
>> > switch
>> > between seasons.  The earliest season will be the default view.
>>
>> With my videos collection it's still not really usable.  It took a
>> very long time to load, putting up a message saying that the backend
>> connection had failed, although it did eventually load when I gave it
>> enough time, but it's still a non-hierarchical view of way-too-many
>> videos with no real clue what they are.  For example, I'll see a white
>> box with "00019" and "NR" in it and clicking on it shows:
>>
>> 00019  NR
>>
>> None
>>
>>       Play
>>
>> and playing it plays the background video for a blu-ray disc menu.  In
>> MythFrontend, you don't see these things unless you go looking for
>> them.  They're tucked away into the folder for the disc image.
>> Normally, you just play the folder and even if you do open the folder
>> and see all the pieces of the blu-ray structure you at least know what
>> disc image you opened.
>
>
> In mythfrontend go to Setup > Media Settings > Videos Settings > File Types
> and add extensions that you don't want shown, then check ignore. This should
> keep them from showing in the frontend and MythTV Player.

I don't want them hidden, I want them organized.  They work perfectly
in mythfrontend, it's only a problem in MythTV Player because they're
jumbled in with everything else with no clue what the path to the
video is.

Eric