[mythtv-users] Frontend for Apple TV 4

Fred Squires fsquires at gmail.com
Wed Jan 6 19:13:25 UTC 2016


On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Bart Whiteley <bart.lists at whiteley.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Chris Hoff <hoffchris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I just setup my new Apple TV and your app is working great, thanks!
>
> Glad to hear it!
>
> >
> > I prefer operating in the Enable Arrow Buttons: No mode to avoid
> inadvertent seeking.  But then I miss the 10 minute forward/back seek that
> seems to only be available with top/bottom taps when arrow buttons are
> enabled.  Is it possible for the trackpad on the Siri remote to detect
> top/bottom clicks like it does with left/right?
>
> I have a new version waiting for review by Apple that removes the
> Enable Arrow Buttons setting. Instead, the buttons always work on
> universal remotes and trackpad taps are always ignored. This is the
> way I wanted it to be all along but the SDK doesn't make it easy to
> distinguish universal remote button presses vs. trackpad taps.
>
> I could detect top/bottom clicks on the trackpad. It was my belief
> that if you wanted to skip as far as 10 minutes, then clicking and
> scrubbing with the thumbnailer would be much preferred to a 10-minute
> skip. Perhaps that was a bad assumption. Also, top/bottom clicks don't
> feel quite as nice in part due to the "diving board" effect of the
> trackpad -- the pressure required to click is inconsistent across the
> vertical position. It's also not easy to tell where the trackpad stops
> at the bottom.
>
> >
> > I have a feature request.  I generally like my recordings grouped
> alphabetically.  But sometimes I want to work through recent recordings.
> With the full Mythfrontend, I use the ‘All Programs’ group to accomplish
> this.  Could you add a group like this to your app?
>
> Yes. I'll add that to the list. Thanks for the feedback.
>
> >
> > I also have an issue to report.  I started watching the Orange Bowl
> today about 20 minutes after the recording started.  The recording is
> scheduled to last 4 hours and this was the time displayed on the far right
> of the seek bar.  However, it was counting down rapidly and the current
> position indicator was counting up rapidly.  The 10 second seek back didn’t
> seem to work at all and the 30 second seek forward seemed to only go
> forward about 10 seconds.  Is this a known issue?  The recording source is
> MPEG2 from an HDHR.
>
> This is a known problem while watching a recording in progress. I'm
> working on a solution to improve that situation.
>
> --
> bart
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I also just installed this MythTV app for my AppleTV and it's working great
so far. Any chance of adding MythVideo support to the app?
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