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

Daniel Frey dmfrey at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 15:10:55 UTC 2015


On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:47 AM Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

> 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
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Eric,
The FE's allow you to switch between a browse view and directory list
view.  I will try to implement something similar.  It is gonna take some
time, as I figure the best approach for this. But I will try to put this in
in a future release.

Dan
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