[mythtv-users] asus memo pad 7

[Daniel Frey]

On Tue Feb 10 2015 at 10:45:50 AM Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 15:15 +0000, Daniel Frey wrote:
> >
> > It is currently allows you to watch recordings and most videos that can
> be
> > converted with HLS.
>
> So is HLS transcoding a requirement now?  What if I am in the same
> network as the MythTV BE (or have enough upstream bandwidth on my
> Internet connection) and have enough bandwidth to stream the native
> MPEG2 stream?
>
> The old/existing app gave one the choice to use the native encoding or
> to HLS transcode and the former didn't tax my modestly powered (i.e. not
> beefy enough for live transcoding) BE with needless transcoding.
>
> Cheers,
> b.
>
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Brian,

Unfortunately, the Android native MediaPlayer api does not support mpeg2
playback.  I don't want this version of the app to rely on any external
player dependencies.  We had far too many issues with the prior one with
one device this player worked, and on another that player works, but it
didn't work on the first device, etc.

I do feel this will prove to be a better ui experience for the users.  You
can always queue the HLS in the app or do it from the backend.  It only
requires it to be 2% complete before you can start watching.  This method
also will work nicely over the internet (if exposed) or an ssh tunnel with
port forwards into your backend.

Also, Bill Meek has a working patch for mythtranscode that will allow it to
--honorcutlist if you are interested in doing HLS transcodes without
commercials.  But it is a patch and you have to be running your backend
from source.

Dan
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