[mythtv-users] asus memo pad 7

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 15:55 +0000, Daniel Frey wrote:
> 
> Brian,

Hi Daniel,

> 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.

Hrm.  I've never had any problems with MX Player on any of the many
devices I use[d] it on.

Even providing external player as an unsupported option would be useful
I think.  Then it's up to people to find an external player that works
for them.

> I do feel this will prove to be a better ui experience for the users.

If that includes no experience at all for users who don't have a big fat
backend machine (because really, historically BE machines have never
required big CPUs -- they were just pipes between hardware encoder cards
or digital broadcasts and disk drives) that can transcode real-time then
I guess that will be true.  I guess you won't have to field trouble
reports from any of those 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.

But has to be able to keep up real-time or you endure buffering every
few minutes and end up spending 2 hours to watch a 1 hour program with
lots of buffering pauses.

Or yes, I can sit down with the family every morning and plan our
television watching for the evening so that I can get the transcodes
going ahead of time.  But that defeats the *entire* purpose of the PVR
which is to sit down and watch what I/we want when we want and not have
to plan our lives around viewing television.

> This method
> also will work nicely over the internet (if exposed) or an ssh tunnel with
> port forwards into your backend.

MPEG2 direct playback to MX Player on my Internet connection (10Mbps
upstream) works just fine thanks.  :-)

> 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.

Lol.  Commercial flagging will have to take a giant leap forwards in
accuracy before that will be useful.

b.

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